York County Audubon Society is seeking an educator or community leader to participate in a one-week program on famed Hog Island off midcoast Maine in July 2015. YCAS will sponsor one participant who can benefit from the Hog Island experience and use it to teach others. Complete information is available at www.yorkcountyaudubon.org and applications are due by March 15.

The program is entitled “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” and will run from July 17 through 22. Program details and descriptions are available at http://hogisland. audubon.org/sharing-natureeducator s-week. The YCAS scholarship will pay 70 percent (up to $700) of the recipient’s cost for program tuition, room and board.

YCAS’s 2015 Hog Island scholarship winners were teachers Nathan Hall (Kennebunk Middle School) and Christine Caprio (York High School). They provided lively descriptions of their program experiences in an article for the autumn 2015 issue of The Harlequin, the YCAS newsletter, which can be accessed through the YCAS website.

Since 1936, some of the world’s most well-known and highly respected naturalists have come to Hog Island and inspired thousands to learn about and protect birds and the environment. Roger Tory Peterson was among the first teachers on the 335-acre island. Rachel Carson described her visit to Hog Island in her landmark book, “Silent Spring.” Kenn Kaufman, only 9 years old when he read Peterson’s account of Hog lsland, is now an international authority on birds and nature.

York County Audubon Society fosters understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the natural world through the education of present and future generations. YCAS is a chapter of Maine Audubon and the National Audubon Society.

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