Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Old Town, Maine, is a 2,402-acre protected landscape along Pushaw and Dead streams that includes part of the Caribou Bog wetland complex, one of the state’s largest wetlands. Established in 1965 by Oliver Larouche from his parents’ camp and given in trust to the University of Maine in 1983, it serves as both wildlife refuge and research area. Its significance also reaches deep into prehistory through the Hirundo Site, where evidence of 4,500 years of Native American occupation was uncovered, including some of eastern Maine’s earliest proof of habitation during the Vergennes Phase around 3000 BCE.