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July 4, 2008
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Press releases, events, publications released, etc. from Maine environmental organizations and agencies. Submit content.
Solar Mower talk at F.W. Horch
Event - Thursday, July 03, 2008
On Thursday, July 10, at 7 pm, Guy Marsden will be at F.W. Horch Sustainable Goods & Supplies in Brunswick to demonstrate how to remove the gasoline motor from a lawn mower and replace it with an electric motor and a battery, which can then be charged with solar panels. Converting a gas mower to solar is featured as one of "Ten Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet" in the July 2008 issue of Popular Science Magazine. |
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Maine's Piping Plovers Facing Worst Summer in Nearly 20 Years
Press Release - Monday, June 30, 2008
As the summer rush of beachgoers begins, biologists are saying the endangered piping plover is already having the worst breeding season in nearly 20 years on Maine's beaches--making it especially important for people to pay attention and respect birds' needs. |
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Restoration of Seabird Populations in Maine Topic of Talk - Rockland, July 2nd
Event - Thursday, June 26, 2008
Susie Meadows, manager of the Project Puffin Visitor Center, will discuss some of the factors limiting Maine seabird populations and will discuss how techniques, developed by Project Puffin, have led to the restoration of puffins and terns to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. Her presentation will take place at the Project Puffin Visitor Center on Wednesday, July 2, at 5 p.m. |
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Workshops on Invasive Aquatic Plants Scheduled
Press Release - Thursday, June 19, 2008
On Tuesday, July 8, a session titled “Introduction to Invasive Plant Patrol” will be held from 2 to 7:30 p.m. at Ellsworth City Hall. On Tuesday, Aug. 19, a session titled “Advanced Plant ID” will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at Ellsworth City Hall. |
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AMC to offer outdoor programs to all Piscataquis County schoolchildren
Press Release - Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) has intensified its commitment to outdoor education in the 100-Mile Wilderness region with a new program aimed at helping schoolchildren in Piscataquis County make a closer connection with the outdoors. The effort is part of AMC’s broader Maine Woods Initiative, which addresses regional ecological and economic needs through outdoor recreation, resource protection, sustainable forestry and community partnerships.
Building on the early success of collaborative programs with local schools, AMC is working with educators to offer hands-on outdoor learning opportunities to all schoolchildren in Piscataquis County.
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Downeast Lakes Land Trust to Add 6,644 Acres to Community Forest: Half-way to $3.2 Million Capital Campaign Goal
Press Release - Friday, June 13, 2008
Grand Lake Stream, Maine: The Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT) announced this week that it plans to purchase 6,644 acres of forestland around Wabassus Lake in central Washington County. DLLT intends to transfer a conservation easement on the property to the State of Maine, to practice sustainable forestry on its woodlands, and to keep it open to the public forever, with guaranteed access for hiking, canoeing, camping, fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, and other recreation. |
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Test Drive an Electric Car
Event - Friday, June 06, 2008
F.W. Horch Sustainable Goods and Supplies, 56 Maine St., Brunswick, will host a "Meet the Electric Car" test-drive and educational event with Maine Electric Vehicles from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Thursday, June 12th. Maine Electric Vehicles will have two different models of "Neighborhood Electric Vehicles" on hand for test-drives on Maine Street in Brunswick. For more information, please call 729-4050 or visit www.FWHorch.com. |
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Come Walk Among the Old Trees of Maine
Event - Thursday, June 05, 2008
Its National Trails Day. What better way then join Native Forest Network (NFN) on an organized bushwack to one of Maine's last remaining old growth stands.
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Thorncrag Summer Birds
Event - Sunday, June 01, 2008
Thorncrag holds a variety of birds in the summer – including resident bluebirds and bobolinks. Join trip leaders Stan and Joan DeOrsey as we explore for the residents of Thorncrag |
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Land Conservation Success in Maine Attracts National Funding
Press Release - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a statewide land conservation organization, was awarded a $600,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts for a program designed to build capacity of land conservation groups in Maine. |
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Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership Completes Fundraising Campaign
Press Release - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Governor John Baldacci joined members of the New England Forestry Foundation and the Downeast Lakes Land Trust to celebrate the completion of the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership's seven-year, $34.8 million capital campaign. |
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Going green proves profitable for towns
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, May 31, 2008
A surge in household recycling in the past year is saving some greater Portland communities tens of thousands of dollars, and is expected to generate a record $950,000 annual surplus from recycling for ecomaine, the region's waste disposal cooperative. |
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No refuge from wildlife underfunding
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, May 31, 2008
 Maine's national wildlife refuges have gotten used to a lack of money for biological studies, maintenance and other projects. Now they're dealing with staffing cuts so deep that wildlife advocates warn that the refuges are in as much peril as some of the animal and plant species they're supposed to protect. |
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Partnerships that protect land and jobs
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sporting camp owners, Maine guides, forest managers and residents of the Grand Lake Stream region Down East joined Gov. John Baldacci and conservation group officials last week to celebrate the completion of one of the most ambitious land preservation efforts in the last decade. |
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Plum Creek Plans to Cut Down 200 Year Old Trees
Other - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Plum Creek Plans on Cutting a 220 acre old-growth stand near the Moosehead Region. This land would be part of the potential Moosehead Legacy Easement between Plum Creek and the Nature Conservancy. |
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A funeral for Wassumkeag
LivingGreenMaine.com - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Activists hold a funeral for Sears Island, while bemoaning ‘betrayal’ of Sierra Club. Club signed an agreement with Maine DOT that reserved 341 acres of the 941-acre island for potential cargo port development. Organizers of Saturday’s event said they felt the Sierra Club had made a rash decision, one that does not represent the beliefs of a majority of the club’s members.
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Activists bury Sierra Club
Bangor Daily News - Monday, May 26, 2008
Environmental activists dedicated to preserving Sears Island held a mock funeral for a former friend Saturday — the Sierra Club. Members of Penobscot Bay Watch and others are incensed at the environmental group for having signed off on a compromise proposal that would reserve enough land to allow the state to build a cargo port on one third of the island. |
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'Funeral' held in wake of Sears Island
VillageSoup.com - Monday, May 26, 2008
 Penobscot Bay Watch and Fair Play for Sears Island sponsored a Keep Sears Island Wild! funeral march and wake Saturday, May 24. Protesters said they were upset that the Sierra Club Maine Chapter had signed an agreement not to contest the Maine Department of Transportation' plans to build an industrial port on the island, as long as it meets state and federal approval. |
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Critics pan Plum Creek development
Lewiston Sun-Journal - Saturday, May 24, 2008
Representatives from the Forest Ecology Network and RESTORE: The North Woods said at a press conference that Plum Creek falls short in its attempt to have 20,000 acres rezoned to pave the way for 975 house lots and two resorts. |
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Unity House to serve as green model
LivingGreenMaine.com - Friday, May 23, 2008
UNITY — Unity College President Mitchell Thomashow is about to get a house that is designed to produce as much energy as it consumes.
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Sears Island's Future Still Focus of Contention
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, May 23, 2008
Environmental activists plan to gather tomorrow at Sears Island for a funeral and wake: not for a person, but for the island itself. Members of the groups "Fair Play for Sears Island" and "Penobscot Bay Watch" say plans for an industrial port on the uninhabited midcoast island will kill any hope of keeping the island wild, and the bay in which it sits healthy. |
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Saving forest land, way of life in Maine
Other - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
After seven years, the "Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership" has raised enough money to protect some 342,000 acres of remote lakefront and forest in downeast Maine. They are also helping to preserve a way of life. |
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Groups raise $35 million to save Down East forest
Portland Press Herald - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A major fundraising effort that will protect 342,000 acres of Down East forest and hundreds of miles of remote waterfront from developers has been completed, preservation groups and Gov. John Baldacci announced Tuesday. The nonprofit New England Forestry Foundation and the Downeast Lakes Land Trust said the nearly $35 million raised will protect 445 miles of shore frontage on 60 lakes and 1,500 miles of riverfront in Maine's easternmost county. |
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$34.8M raised to protect 342,000 acres Down East
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Nine years ago, Jimmie Upham and a handful of other Grand Lake Stream residents gathered around a picnic table and, unbeknownst to them, set in motion one of the most significant land conservation deals in Maine history. On Tuesday, Upham was in Augusta to help mark the completion of a $34.8 million fundraising campaign that has permanently protected from development 342,000 acres in the Down East region. |
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Coastal land trust group taps new president
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Maine Coast Heritage Trust Announced that Paul Gallay will be joining the Trust as its next president. Mr. Gallay comes to the Trust from the Westchester Land Trust in New York where he served as executive director for eight years. |
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Plastics from spuds gets funding
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A consortium hoping to make plastics from Maine potatoes has received more than $650,000 to further develop the proposal.
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Biologists keeping eye on red tide
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, May 15, 2008
Marine biologists say 2008 could be a bad year for red tide in coastal Maine waters based on recent shellfish surveys and current weather patterns. |
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"Bird-A-Thon" To Benefit Bird Habitat
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, May 15, 2008
Bird enthusiasts from around the state are scheduled to meet at Maine Audubon Society in Falmouth to trade strategies for finding and identifying bird species |
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A field trip with a ripple effect
Portland Press Herald - Friday, May 09, 2008
 Fifth-grade students from York Middle School watch as their teacher, Margot Simonds, nets a salamander discovered at the York Land Trust’s Hilton-Winn property. |
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Who's the greenest? Colleges vie for title
Bangor Daily News - Friday, May 09, 2008
 Environmentally sustainable efforts have been under way at Maine’s colleges and universities for years. Katona led COA, a small, private school, in a number of sustainability initiatives during his tenure from 1993 to 2006. |
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Fishing Smarter: Monhegan has its “best year ever”
The Working Waterfront - Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Under new state rules, fishing a longer season with fewer traps per person, Monhegan lobstermen are having surprising success catching as many or more lobsters as before. “We are now fishing 300 traps apiece,” said Doug Boynton, who has been fishing off Monhegan for 38 years. “And the fishing is as good as when we were fishing 600 traps.” |
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Forest Products Council slams LURC plan
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, May 04, 2008
To landowners in Northern Maine, the Land Use Regulation Commission's proposed comprehensive plan for the state's unorganized territories intrudes on property rights. |
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Proposed Taunton Bay Management Regs Draw Lukewarm Support
Ellsworth American - Thursday, May 01, 2008
Maine DMR's proposed regulations for harvesters of mussels, sea urchins, scallops and kelp in Taunton Bay drew restrained support at a public hearing in Franklin. April 22. The regulations are a joint effort between DMR and the Taunton Bay Advisory Group, formed last year to manage the pilot program for localized resource management and stewardship of the Taunton Bay watershed. |
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Free Bus Rides Offered | | Rides on city buses will be free on Fridays this summer through Aug. 29, part of an effort to encour... | | 6/30/2008 12:00:00 AM |
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Down to Earth: Portland Press Herald
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