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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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The Springs of Our Discontent: Maine’s Water Controversy
Other - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Maine Food & Life Style - More than 20 companies bottle water in Maine. The 800-pound gorilla in this crowd is the Swiss conglomerate Nestlé, the world’s largest food processing company, which owns Poland Spring, the best-selling spring water in the nation. But anti-bottled water groups are making a splash, too. |
Coming Up Empty
Other - Thursday, December 31, 2009
In the Gulf of Maine waters, crustaceans are plentiful and the lobstering industry is thriving, while groundfish stocks are at all-time lows and the fleets are on the verge of extinction. The effect of humans on the marine resources — from overfishing to policymaking — is undeniable, controversial and little-understood. And that’s where UMaine economic anthropologist James Acheson comes in. |
Big-picture guy
Other - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Lawrence Bender graduated from UMaine in 1979 with a degree in civil engineering and a passion for dance. He launched his Hollywood career six years later. "I had this nutty idea to approach Al Gore and make a movie. I feel like making An Inconvenient Truth was the culmination of everything I was training for in my life — making movies and trying to make a difference." |
Forest plan aims for federal funds
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Patrick McGowan, commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation, sees potential for a “Great Maine Forest” brand attached to wood products, whether lumber for houses or paper. Other aspects of the initiative would focus on ways to lower energy costs or increase efficiency at mills and convert to locally grown “green” fuel sources. |
New Forest Initiative Aims to Preserve North Woods
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, December 31, 2009
The draft proposal calls for a public-private partnership to protect between 500,000 and 2 million acres of working forest. Members of the group say it's not a proposal for a national park; rather, it proposes a partnership with landowners to conserve land mostly through conservation easements. |
‘Maine rule’ defines tonight’s blue moon
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Every once in a blue moon, there is a blue moon on New Year’s Eve. This is the year, and tonight is the night. The next blue moon that falls on New Year’s Eve won’t take place until 2028. |
Public help sought to ID state forest concerns
Sun Journal - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Maine residents are being asked to participate in a new online survey by the Maine Forest Service for the Bureau of Parks and Lands' latest assessment of the state's forests. |
Maine polar dip to raise $ for climate change work
Associated Press - Thursday, December 31, 2009
The Natural Resources Council of Maine is holding its second Polar Bear Plunge on Thursday at East End Beach in Portland. The conservation organization says the event raises money for and awareness about its work on climate change. |
Plan seeks to protect huge tracts of forestland
Portland Press Herald - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Maine will propose a pilot program to the federal government in February that would use state and national resources to conserve vast tracts of forestland, maintaining them as natural habitat and for recreation and sustainable forestry. The Great Maine Forest Initiative would preserve forestland stabilizing the source of wood fiber for Maine's pulp and paper and growing biomass energy industries. A working group that includes state officials, environmentalists, outdoor recreation organizations, landowners and industry representatives has come up with a draft proposal. |
Environmental group gives Pingree, Michaud perfect score
Associated Press - Thursday, December 31, 2009
The activist group Environment Maine is giving Maine's two congressional representatives, Reps. Michael Michaud and Chellie Pingree, perfect scores for their votes during the past year and a half. |
Opinion: Which way is the wind blowing us?
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, December 31, 2009
It is unclear where the enthusiasm for wind power will take us. Maine has an aging population, and it is our reputation for a way of life and the availability of a certain kind of recreation that draws young workers and their families here. We should certainly exercise common sense in decreasing our energy use and increasing our energy efficiency wherever possible. But we should not hastily industrialize our landscape. |
Editorial: Looking Back, Forward
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, December 31, 2009
The questions that will loom over the Plum Creek project, beyond the outcome of the appeals, are whether the house lots sell, how quickly they sell, and how heavily booked the resorts will be. If Plum Creek succeeds, Maine may become Second Home Land, along with Vacationland. |
Maine Scientist Warns of "Other CO2 Problem"
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, December 31, 2009
For Portland-based marine science professor Dr. Mark Green, one of the biggest environmental challenges facing us in 2010 is the problem of ocean acidification. |
Opinion: A corporation worth saving
Bar Harbor Times - Thursday, December 31, 2009
What is truly shameful, and just plain foolish about what happened in Copenhagen a few weeks ago and what is happening right now in Washington, is that the consensus is not that we don't have the means to effectively address our environmental problems, but that we choose not to. |
Winter Visitors Invited to Enjoy Nature at HVNC
Free Press - Thursday, December 31, 2009
This fall volunteers constructed and placed 11 picnic tables and five benches throughout Hidden Valley Nature Center's 25 miles of trails in Jefferson. This winter, whether on cross-country skis, snowshoes or a hike, there are vistas to contemplate and secluded spots for resting. |
No more power lines?
Christian Science Monitor - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Buried super-cooled electrical cables may replace towering transmission lines and carry solar and wind energy efficiently over long distances. |
Baldacci Pushes for Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Maine Gov. John Baldacci is among 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic governors who have signed an agreement to develop a mandatory, multi-state Low Carbon Fuel Standard. LCFS establishes a global warming standard for transportation fuels aimed at cutting car and truck emissions that contribute to the problem. |
Coyote Hunting Tournament Draws Howls of Protest
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Organizers of a coyote hunt tournament in Jackman say thinning coyote herds will help boost the number of the white-tailed deer. Activists dispute that. "These tournament hunts are an example of scapegoating, and they're simply ecologically and ethically indefensible," says Camilla Fox, Director of Project Coyote, which is calling for an end to the hunt. Her group is joined by the Wildlife Alliance of Maine and the Humane Society of the United States. |
Acadia adds no smoking areas
Bar Harbor Times - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Smoking is now prohibited in four more places at Acadia National Park, according to a recently updated compendium regulating park activity. The new areas are the Seawall and Blackwoods campground amphitheaters and Echo Lake Beach and Sand Beach swimming areas. |
Moratorium renewed as ordinance work progresses
Republican Journal - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Jackson officials voted to renew the moratorium on industrial wind turbines Dec. 29, and also heard some recommendations from the town's attorney regarding the wind turbine ordinance proposed by the town's planning board. |
Iriving mill fire damage estimated at $25,000
Sun Journal - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Everyone was back to work Monday morning at Irving Forest Products in Dixfield after a fire damaged a portion of the specialty mill a week before Christmas. |
Like it or not, saltwater rule nears
Portland Press Herald - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Starting Friday, Mainers who fish for smelt, striped bass and many other saltwater fish will first have to register with the federal government. Registering as a saltwater angler won't cost anything in 2010, but it could cost as much as $25 starting in 2011. |
Adventure program extends into winter
Portland Press Herald - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
About 40 middle school students will learn how to snowshoe on the Appalachian Trail, build snow huts near Saddleback Mountain and generally survive in the Maine woods this winter. Rippleffect, an adventure-oriented leadership program based on Cow Island in Casco Bay, is expanding beyond kayaking and camping under the stars to provide year-round educational opportunities. |
Greenville seeks solar, wind power
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
If the funding falls into place, the Greenville Municipal Building could be powered by a wind generator and its water heated by solar panels, likely making it the first town office in the state to use alternative energy. Town officials have applied for a nearly $80,000 federal energy efficiency block grant. |
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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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Gardeners Association
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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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