2025 News Stories

July 2^nd Bangor Daily News Story.  Chris Bouchard of the BDN came to Cross Lake on July 2^nd to write a story about Cross Lake, water quality monitoring, and the annual Maine Audubon Loon Count. The online version is here Aroostook lakes need more water quality monitor volunteers, and the print version came out Wednesday, July 9^th in The County newspaper. It was good publicity for FOCL! (Note: there is one mistake – the Loon Count on July 19^th is only ½ hour from 7 - 7:30 am, not until 7:30 pm.)

July 17^th WAGM Water Quality Monitoring Story. Megan Waceken of WAGM was at Cross Lake Thursday, July 17^th to do a story about water quality monitoring during our annual training event. The online text and video are here Local volunteers dive into water quality monitoring. This was also good publicity for FOCL! You can read more about our water quality monitoring under Projects – Water Quality.

July 19^th WAGM Maine Audubon Loon Count Story. Megan was also at Cross Lake again on Saturday, July 19^th to do a story about the annual Maine Audubon Loon Count. The online text and video are here Annual loon count: volunteers needed on Northern Maine's lakes. She did a great job with both stories. An exciting note is that we did get to count our two loon chicks in the north end of the lake! You can read more about loons on Cross Lake under Projects – Maine’s Loon Stewardship.

August 4^th Maine Calling Broadcast. Cheryl St. Peter, FOCL’s Project Manager, participated in Maine Calling’s Algal Blooms broadcast August 4, 2025.

December 24^th & January 8^th TheCounty.ME. A press release was published in TheCounty.ME print edition in December and online in January about our Phase II grant completion titled Friends of Cross Lake complete grant work. You can read more about our Phase II Grant under Projects – Phase II Grant.