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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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A River Reborn
Other - Saturday, October 31, 2009
Atlantic Salmon Journal, Autumn 2009 - The Edwards Dam removal celebrates a 10th anniversary. |
A Vision in Green
Other - Saturday, October 31, 2009
AMC Outdoors, Nov-Dec 2009 - The Appalachian Mountain Club's new Roach Ponds Tract protects a critical link in the 100-Mile Wilderness. |
Letter: Outdoorsmen are ignored
Sun Journal - Saturday, October 31, 2009
I can't believe that the state of Maine passed a law so the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department can charge $5 for tagging a bear, moose, deer or turkey. Outdoorsmen are not being listened to. They fill out comment cards, but those probably get filed away and forgotten. |
Federal bill pumps $10M into Maine wildlife, water projects
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, October 31, 2009
Funding for Maine includes: $3.7 million to buy 19,647 acres as part of the Katahdin Forest Expansion in the Baxter State Park region, $500,000 to address the threat of invasive species to Maine lakes and ponds, $1 million to buy nationally significant seabird nesting islands for the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, and $3 million to buy a 110-acre property to become part of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. |
Maine’s cranberry growers find their healthy product under siege
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, October 31, 2009
Last year, Maine’s cranberry crop averaged about 100 barrels an acre on 196.7 acres. According to the USDA, each 100-pound barrel was worth $94.20, or about 94 cents a pound. This year, those same barrels are likely to fetch about $35 each. This is disheartening to Maine’s growers because while the price may hover at 35 cents a pound, it costs 42 cents a pound to grow the berries. |
Provincial power deal aimed at N.E. energy markets
Associated Press - Saturday, October 31, 2009
North America’s largest utility company has announced it will pay $4.4 billion for transmission lines that would help secure greater access to electricity markets in the U.S. Hydro-Quebec also announced that it expects to spend up to $23 billion over the next decade to boost its electric output by 4,500 megawatts a year. |
Maine’s deer-hunting season kicks off
Associated Press - Saturday, October 31, 2009
Maine residents are allowed to hunt for the first day of firearms season, with residents and nonresidents alike allowed starting Monday. The season ends Nov. 28. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is predicting this fall’s deer kill to be the smallest in at least 25 years. |
Maine Milfoil Consortium receives $500,000
Associated Press - Saturday, October 31, 2009
The federal funds will be used to mitigate and control invasive milfoil in seven “test bed” lakes, which pose a high risk of spread to other waters. |
Madison hopes grants will help cut energy use
Morning Sentinel - Saturday, October 31, 2009
An Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant for $73,000 would allow the town to install light-emitting diodes in 38 street lights, saving a total of 334,780 kilowatt hours over the life of the bulbs and "more than half of what we're paying in electrical costs." The grant, which is composed of federal stimulus funds, handed down through the Maine PUC, would also allow the town to install four solar-lit stop signs. |
CLYNK's customers complain of changes
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, October 31, 2009
The bottle redemption service at Hannaford stores cuts staff and now serves only account holders. |
Northern border panel awarded $1.5M
Mainebiz - Friday, October 30, 2009
President Obama has signed a measure that will funnel $1.5 million to the northern reaches of Maine and three other Northeast states to spur economic development by investing in infrastructure improvements, high-speed Internet access, health care and renewable energy. The governors from the four states had sought $30 million to support sustainable forestry, economic development and land conservation. The commission grew out of legislation sponsored by Rep. Mike Michaud. |
Opinion: Kennebunkport seizing private property rights at Goose Rocks Beach
Portland Press Herald - Friday, October 30, 2009
The vast majority of the owners believe that the adversarial claim made by the town represents a remarkably unjustified, unprecedented, and irresponsible change of the status quo on the question of the limits of public and private access at Goose Rocks Beach. |
Katahdin Forest Expansion bill in Congress
Associated Press - Friday, October 30, 2009
A bill advancing through Congress will expand conservation land in northern Maine by nearly 20,000 acres. The House has passed an Interior Department appropriations bill providing $3.7 million for the Katahdin Forest Expansion. |
Maine wood-energy projects sought
Associated Press - Friday, October 30, 2009
Gov. John Baldacci says the state is inviting applications for 15 biomass heat and energy installation projects. |
Authorities Investigate Slaying of Endangered Lynx
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, October 30, 2009
State and federal officials are investigating the killing of an endangered Canada lynx in a wooded area north of Rangeley. The cat was found shot to death October 21st after being caught in a trap. |
Bangor, Saint John links sought
Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 30, 2009
Civic leaders from Bangor met Thursday with their counterparts from Saint John, New Brunswick, for a series of sessions on tourism, economic development, transportation and energy in hopes of fostering collaboration. Irving Oil’s proposed energy corridor project through Maine is the perfect example of a mutually beneficial partnership. |
Conference in Caribou targets pests
Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 30, 2009
An outbreak of spruce budworm during the 1970-80s taught forest managers, scientists and others a great deal about what to do to prevent a possible recurrence and combat it if one does occur. The lessons learned was the topic of discussion in Caribou on Thursday, as the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit held a conference to bring people up to date on the state of Maine’s forests and to introduce tools for managing forests under pressure from the budworm. |
Tart Red Fruit Producing Green For Maine Farmers
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, October 30, 2009
October is harvest time for cranberries and Maine farmers are finding the fruit to be a viable new crop, and another way to diversify their produce. This summer's heavy rains, which harmed many potato and tomato crops, actually helped cranberry bogs. |
Hydro Quebec Moves to Export Energy Through Maine
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, October 30, 2009
Hydro Quebec has announced that it will acquire New Brunswick Power for $4.4 billion dollars U.S. Hydro-Quebec has long sought an entry into the lucrative New England electricity market. That entry may now come through the state of Maine. |
Just one race contested in Millinocket elections
Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 30, 2009
Steve Campbell would like to see Millinocket’s economy diversify beyond the shut down Katahdin Avenue paper mill. “By the time my daughter goes to college, it would be awesome to think that there’s something here that she could come back to work for after she graduates,” Campbell said of his daughter Sydney, 5. |
New England fishermen protest new catch rules
Associated Press - Friday, October 30, 2009
Hundreds of fishermen from the Northeast rallied before the headquarters of federal fishery managers Friday to protest changes intended to prevent overfishing. Fishermen from Maine to Maryland made the trip to Gloucester. |
Kansas Supreme Court rules against wind farms
Associated Press - Friday, October 30, 2009
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that county commissioners have the right to prohibit the construction of commercial wind farms. In a unanimous decision, the court acknowledged the commission's concerns about potential harm to the aesthetics and ecology. Owners of wind rights say the ordinance constitutes a "taking" of their rights without compensation. |
COA president a national 'planet panelist'
Bar Harbor Times - Friday, October 30, 2009
"Negotiate as if the quality of our children's lives depended on the outcome...for the simple reason that it does," writes College of the Atlantic President David Hales in his new role as "Planet Panelist" for the Washington Post. |
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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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