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February 6, 2012
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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Sunday, February 05, 2012
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation and natural resource news stories and events. Since the start of 2009, I have posted more than 16,000 news articles and announcements. Be sure to check not only today's stories, but take a look at the headlines from the past several days as well. Articles often come to my attention a few days after they are published. ~ Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE: The North Woods |
Defining Wilderness: Defining Maine
Event - Posted - Sunday, February 05, 2012
This book discussion series is offered by the Maine Humanities Council. The discussions will be held at the Cary Memorial Library in Wayne on four Mondays: Feb 13, Mar 19, Apr 23, May 14. Discussion leader: Carol Kontos, English professor at UMA. |
Windfall
Announcement - Sunday, February 05, 2012
We can all agree that energy independence is a worthy objective, right? Alternative energy sources like solar power can help free the U.S. from fossil fuels and the grip of unstable Persian Gulf states. And wind power — wait, not so fast, says “Windfall,” Laura Israel’s urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary. An account of rural Meredith, in upstate New York, when wind turbines came to town, the film depicts the perils of a booming industry and the bitter rancor it sowed among a citizenry. ~ Andy Webster, New York Times |
Intro to Winter Camping, Feb 10-12
Event - Posted - Friday, February 03, 2012
Introduction to Winter Camping with David Butler. This course will provide information about the skills to maximize your winter camping experience. At Hidden Valley Nature Center, Jefferson, Feb 10-12. |
Tracking with a naturalist, Feb 10
Event - Posted - Friday, February 03, 2012
Join naturalist Nancy Holmes to learn how to identify the animal tracks you will (hopefully) see in the snow this winter. At Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association office, Jefferson, Feb 10, 3:30 pm. |
Dirty Tar Sands Oil Coming Through Maine? Feb 9
Event - Posted - Thursday, February 02, 2012
Learn about the environmental and safety risks of this proposed project and about ways you can join the effort to prevent Portland from becoming the tar sands capital of the eastern U.S. The Canadian oil and gas giant Enbridge is proposing to pump dirty tar sands oil from Ontario to South Portland, where it would be shipped by tanker to refineries along the East Coast or Gulf of Mexico. The pipeline passes next to Sebago Lake, the drinking water supply for more than 15% of Maine people, and could endanger Casco Bay and our fishing and lobster industries. At USM, Glickman Library, Portland, Feb 9, 7-8:30 pm |
The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower
Publication - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The twentieth-century environmental movement owes much to a single man: David Brower. For the hundredth anniversary of David Brower’s birth, his son Kenneth Brower, an acclaimed nature writer, has brought together the testimonies of twenty environmental leaders whose lives and careers were transformed by David Brower; the result is a book in which a repertory company of path-forgers reveal their deepest values and most moving experiences. Available May 2012 from Heyday. |
Reducing coastal erosion, Feb 8
Event - Posted - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Megan Facciolo, district manager of the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation District, will talk about reducing coastal erosion. At Lamoine Town Hall, Feb 8, 7 pm. Sponsored by Lamoine Conservation Commission. |
Managing Your Timber Harvest, Feb 8
Event - Posted - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Maine Forest Service District Forester Morten Moesswilde will talk about harvest planning, working with professional foresters and loggers, different harvest methods, wood values, closing out the job, and other aspects of harvesting. At Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association office, Jefferson, Feb 8, 6-8 pm. |
Birds, Bats & Blades-Wind Turbines & Wildlife, Feb 7
Event - Posted - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Steve Pelletier, Wildlife Ecologist, Stantec, speaks about bats and wind power. At Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Nov 7, 7 pm. Sponsored by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay. |
Winter Extremes: Oh, Deer, Feb 7
Event - Posted - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Regional Biologist Keel Kemper will discuss current wildlife issues, including the effects of severe winters on Maine's deer herd. At Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association office in Sheepscot Village, Newcastle, Feb 7, 6:30 pm. |
Great blue heron flies into Merryspring, Feb 7
Event - Posted - Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Danielle D’Auria, Maine wildlife biologist, will give a presentation on the Great Blue Heron at Merryspring Nature Center, Camden, Feb 7 at noon. |
Smelt/Ice Festival, Feb 3-4
Event - Posted - Saturday, January 28, 2012
Ice Cutting-Smelt Fishing Festival. At Mailly Waterfront Park, Bowdoinham, Feb 3-4. Part of a yearlong celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Town of Bowdoinham. |
Family Winter Ecology Festival, Feb 4
Event - Posted - Saturday, January 28, 2012
This year’s Family Winter Ecology Festival will offer a variety of free indoor and outdoor activities for the entire family. At Merryspring Nature Center, Camden, Feb 4, 10 am to 12:30 pm. |
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Public presses for Sears Island to remain as is
Village Soup Gazette (Knox County & Penobscot Bay) - Monday, June 30, 2008
The committee charged with creating a joint use plan for Sears Island got an earful Wednesday night, from locals who called for an end to the planning process and for the island to remain undeveloped. |
Report on Maine Lakes Now Available
The Free Press (Rockland) - Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) has released the 2007 Maine Lakes Report, including water quality summary data for more than 400 Maine lakes and invasive aquatic plant screening survey data for more than 350 Maine lakes. |
Opinion: Susi Higgins Walker: Unspoiled, scenic Maine a salve to the soul
Bangor Daily News - Monday, June 23, 2008
All Maine officials who make land use decisions, such as those regarding Sears Island and Plum Creek, need to hear we cannot afford more "deals" or "agreements" like the ones being pressed upon the public and environmental advocacy groups. The environment cannot sustain interminable compromise. |
Marine Aquaculture Laboratory Will Boost Maine’s Salmon Industry
Ellsworth American - Thursday, June 19, 2008
Despite the almost unearthly silence that cloaks it, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center is really a hive of activity. Situated on the shore of Taunton Bay just north of the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR), the $22.7 million center operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) celebrated its first birthday with a formal dedication earlier this month. |
Land Trusts Act to Preserve Blue Hill Bay Island Gem
Ellsworth American - Thursday, June 19, 2008
Jed’s Island, an off-the-beaten-track gem of a destination for local residents and visitors seeking a place to picnic, camp, or simply explore, is changing hands. As a result, the 13-acre island located off the shores of East Blue Hill at the mouth of Morgan Bay will remain in its natural state and open to the public for many years to come. |
DMR, Lobstermen Explore Options For Snarl of Sinking Groundlines
Ellsworth American - Thursday, June 19, 2008
A handful of Zone B lobstermen gathered at Ellsworth High School last week for the latest Department of Marine Resources (DMR) update on sinking rope and whale protection rules. Terry Stockwell, the department’s director of external affairs, briefed the lobstermen on DMR’s latest efforts to reduce the impact of the federal Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP) rule requiring lobstermen to use sinking rope groundlines on traps set in state waters. |
MaineDOT Seeks Corps Permit to Work on Newcastle Bridge, Sherman Marsh - Also wants to develop state-wide “wetland mitigation bank”
The Free Press (Rockland) - Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Maine Department of Transportation is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to excavate and place fill material below the high-tide line in Marsh River in Newcastle to stabilize and protect the support structure for the Route 1 bridge in Newcastle that spans what is now the Marsh River. MaineDOT says it plans to conduct the restoration of Sherman Marsh as a “departmental mitigation banking initiative,” and that by establishing a “mitigation bank,” it hopes to use that restoration to help mitigate other MaineDOT projects in the midcoast area.
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Opinion: Hiking Sears Island
LivingGreenMaine.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
As a hiking destination, Sears Island has several things to recommend it. First, it has a varied geography. From seashore to forest, field and fen, it is representative of the best of what Maine has to offer. And since it is an island, getting hopelessly lost is virtually impossible |
Water, Water Everywhere...And Electricity Too?
The Free Press (Rockland) - Thursday, June 19, 2008
A cover story exploration of Maine's wind and tidal energy potential, in light of "The Power of the Gulf,” a conference organized by the University of Maine’s Center for Law and Innovation and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and held in Northport last Thursday, June 12. |
Area poised to be top wind farm site
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
 With 40 1.5-megawatt windmills creating as much as 60 megawatts of electricity on sites in Burlington, Lee, Lincoln and Winn, the proposed Rollins Wind farm would slightly outproduce the 38-turbine Stetson Mountain site being built between Danforth and Springfield and the 28-turbine wind farm operating in Mars Hill. |
Opinion: Sears Island development a terrible plan for the state
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, June 14, 2008
Pave over more than a third of Sears Island as a cargo port, with meaningless concessions offered to environmental partners as a necessary condition of the deal? Despite denials from Joint Use Committee members that a port proposal is on the table, anyone can see that groundwork is being laid by Maine Department of Transportation and the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway |
Group on track to protect more Down East acreage
Bangor Daily News - Friday, June 13, 2008
The Downeast Lakes Land Trust announced the public phase of a fundraising campaign Friday to protect an additional 6,644 acres near Grand Lake Stream from development. DLLT already has purchased the 27,080-acre Farm Cove Community Forest west of this Washington County town renowned for its historic sporting camps and recreational fisheries. On Friday, the organization’s representatives gathered on the scenic shores of Wabassus Lake to announce that they have reached the halfway point in their $3.2 million campaign to add the Wabassus Lake Tract to the Community Forest. |
Groups aim to protect Lily Bay
Bangor Daily News - Friday, June 13, 2008
Two influential conservation groups, NRCM and Maine Audubon, pleaded Thursday with state regulators to alter Plum Creek Timber Co.’s ambitious plans for the Moosehead Lake region and keep the Lily Bay peninsula free from development. Both environmental leaders indicated they are not opposed to development on the western side of Moosehead Lake, but stressed that Lily Bay should be off limits. |
Maine waters, wind touted as untapped energy
Bangor Daily News - Friday, June 13, 2008
The winds and waters of coastal Maine offer a promising yet untapped alternative to the fossil fuels that are driving the nation into what could be a historic energy crisis, experts said Thursday |
Quoddy Bay delay request is challenged.
Other - Friday, June 13, 2008
Quoddy Tides. A group supporting a liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposal in Robbinston has now registered a complaint against another company proposing to build an LNG facility. The group, Robbinston Residents In Support of Downeast LNG LLC, in a letter dated June 2 to Ernest Hilton, chair of the Board of Environmental Protection (BEP), asked the board to deny the Quoddy Bay LNG application for the construction of an LNG terminal at Pleasant Point, stating that Quoddy Bay's repeated requests for postponement are an abuse of the BEP hearing process. |
Maine Yankee proposal could mean loss in taxes. Boothbay Register
Other - Thursday, June 12, 2008
A proposed environmental covenant to resolve a dispute between the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Maine Yankee could cost the taxpayers of Wiscasset, according to Attorney Peter Murray. The environmental covenant is part of a proposed settlement concerning the cleanup of the former reactor site on Bailey Point. |
Sears Island committee prepares for public meeting, answers critics
Village Soup Gazette (Knox County & Penobscot Bay) - Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee was reminded Friday that some people still strongly believe the entire island should remain undeveloped. At the First Congregational Church on Friday, June 6, the committee fielded comments and questions from several members of the public who said they were outraged at the joint use concept being planned for the island. |
Opinion: Letters on Sears Island
Bangor Daily News - Monday, June 09, 2008
A recent protest by a group of activists at Sears Island brought to attention several points about the negative impact a container port there would have on the area and Penobscot Bay. Three letters from people with different positions. |
Conservation at center of Sears Island panel debate
Bangor Daily News - Monday, June 09, 2008
After years of debate over conservation vs. industrial use of the state-owned Sears Island, the arguments for conservation remain as intense as ever. A discussion during the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee meeting Friday provoked a long public input segment. |
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Do I Dare to Plant a Peach? | | It's a sign that Maine and the nation are getting hotter, according to a new analysis by the U.S. De... | | 1/30/2012 12:00:00 AM |
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The myth of the self-made yeoman |  By Gene Logsdon – No figure is more endearing and enduring in agriculture than the lonely plowman out there on the horizon who raises himself by his own bootstraps to financial success. Only problem is, there is no occupation more dependent on the cooperation of society and nature to achieve success than farming. | | 11/2/2011 12:00:00 AM |
Sharp, careful eye brings Maine mushrooms from forest to table |  By Avery Yale Kamila – On a crisp morning at the end of October, chef David Ross and I step off a dirt road in Kennebunk and head into a forest dominated by pines and smaller hardwood. Our objective: To track down a few chanterelles and any other wild mushrooms we can find this late in the season. This trip will mark one of the last of the year for Ross, who is an avid mushroom forager and the owner of 50 Local in Kennebunk. | | 11/2/2011 12:00:00 AM |
New climate prediction: ‘Weird’, getting weirder |  By Seth Borenstein (AP) – For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: more floods, more heat waves, more droughts, and greater costs to deal with them. A draft summary of an international scientific report obtained by The Associated Press says the extremes caused by global warming could eventually grow so severe that some locations become “increasingly marginal as places to live.” | | 11/2/2011 12:00:00 AM |
What to feed your chickens to get the best eggs |  By Nina Lalli – "I have a theory, and I don't think you're gonna like it." Justin was seated across from me at a communal table in a "Secret Restaurant." We had met not half an hour before, but were now deep in discussion about what chickens should eat to produce the best-tasting eggs – an obsession of mine recently. | | 11/1/2011 12:00:00 AM |
Factory farming: not just on land anymore |  By Wenonah Hauter – When most people think of factory farming they typically think of feedlots, hog factories or chicken operations–not massive open net pens growing millions of fish in our oceans. However, factory fish farming will soon pose many of the same threats to the environment and to consumers as its land-based counterparts. | | 11/1/2011 12:00:00 AM |
Bt resistant rootworm spreads | | By Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji – Bt is a toxin from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which produces a large family of similar proteins that target different insect pests; and quite a few of them have been incorporated in genetically modified crops to act as ‘biopesticides’. Unfortunately, the pests soon develop resistance to it. | | 10/31/2011 12:00:00 AM |
Cranberry juice beats extract at fighting infection |  By Christine Lepisto – Just between you and me, ladies, what do you do when you feel that irritating burn, knowing it can only mean a urinary tract infection? Do you run to the doctor's office for antibiotics, only to fight the yeast infection that sets in when drugs knock other systems out of balance? Then you probably haven't heard yet that cranberries can fight infections naturally, and very effectively. | | 10/30/2011 12:00:00 AM |
‘Hobby farm’ couple do part, feed hungry |  By Bill Nemitz – It's not uncommon for someone to show up at the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen in Augusta with a bag full of fresh broccoli, tomatoes or other leftovers from their garden. In recent months, however, Glenn and Rachel Powers have taken that kind of community support to a whole new level. They're giving away the farm. | | 10/30/2011 12:00:00 AM |
New England shrimp target cut in half | | AP – Portland: Fisheries regulators have set the start date for the shrimp season and halved the target for the amount of shrimp to be caught by New England fishermen. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission on Friday set a target of 2,000 metric tons, compared with 4,000 metric tons the year before. | | 10/29/2011 12:00:00 AM |
The life of a seaweed gatherer |  By Daniel Klein – Most of the seaweed we get these days is farmed. But way up in northern Maine, Larch Hanson is still harvesting it wild in its many varieties on the rugged coast. This video isn't about the details of that process, however. It's about the essence of life for Larch, who rises at dawn to cut seaweed and then writes Zen poems about it. | | 10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM |
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