This Environmental Education Teacher's Guide is designed for use with the Maine Land-Use Challenge, a mini-course designed for use in the secondary schools. The mini-course itself grew out of a day-long land-use conference in 1971, sponsored by the Allagash Institute, in the coastal town of Phippsburg, Maine. The conference was filmed and edited…

The objective of this document is to provide information about estuaries, the impact of uses on the environmental health of an estuary, and what communities and concerned individuals can do to manage and protect their local estuarine resources successfully. Much of the information presented here pertains to other embayments along the Maine coast…