Our last field day of the season is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on September 9th at the Good Will - Hinckley campus of Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield (Somerset County).  We'll meet behind the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences administration building.   Turn onto Easler Road from U.S. Route 201, between this building and the L. C. Bates Museum; coordinates for the turn are 44.6626, -69.6259.   This is opposite a big new solar array on the east side of Route 201.   Go up the hill between the buildings, and turn left into the parking lot towards the greenhouses.

Habitats include a small pond, fields, and forest pockets.   Access to more extensive forest and the Kennebec River is available across Route 201, where there's also a very active rail line.   The L. C. Bates Museum will be open from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., and has restroom facilities. 

Bring all your regular collecting gear, drinks, water, lunch, insect repellant, etc.  There are picnic tables at the site for lunch.  Bob Nelson (BeetleBob2003@gmail.com) is coordinating this for Dana Michaud, who's been called out-of-state.

More information about the L.C. Bates Museum here.

A map of trails on the property is here.