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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation news stories and events. Since the start of 2009, I have posted more than 6,000 news stories and announcements. Articles are posted regularly. Be sure to check not only today's stories, but take a look at the headlines from the past several days as well. Recent articles often come to my attention a few days after they are published. Note: I will be away Aug 29 - Sep 6, 2010, and unable to post articles during that time. ~ Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE: The North Woods |
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America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Sep 2
Action Alert - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Representatives of federal agencies are traveling the country to listen to ideas for conserving our lands and waters and reconnecting Americans to the outdoors. The AGO road show will be in Maine on Sep 2 at 3-6 p.m. at the Bangor Civic Center. Don’t miss this chance to speak for the need to expand public lands in Maine. |
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Viles Arboretum seeks volunteers
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Viles Arboretum in Augusta is seeking volunteers to help teach environmental education programs to student, adult and family audiences all year long. Training and support will be provided by the arboretum’s new program director, Mark DesMeules. |
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Landscaping For Wildlife, Sep 4
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Learn about the wide selection of native shrubs, small trees and other plants that are hardy and attractive, while providing food and shelter for our birds and wildlife. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, Sep 4, 11 a.m. |
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Oh, Ranger! Story Tour, Sep 2-6
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Visitors to Acadia National Park are invited to share their experiences with American Park Network representatives, who will be in Bar Harbor as part of the Oh, Ranger! Story Tour from Sep 2 to 6. A team will record stories of visitors' experiences at Acadia. The program is part of a national initiative to collect stories to showcase the breadth and depth of America's parks as the National Park System approaches its 100th anniversary in 2016. |
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Healthy crops topic of UM gardening forum, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Gardeners of every ilk will get the chance to learn about maintaining healthy crops during a presentation by a University of Maine Cooperative Extension researcher at the UM Rogers Farm in Stillwater on Tuesday, Aug 31 at 6 p.m. |
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Internet Trail Site for Franklin County
Announcement - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
This new website offers information on 15 mountain biking, hiking, walking, cross-country skiing, and snow shoeing trails in Western Maine. More will be added. |
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Schoodic: Where Sea meets Land, Aug 28 & 29
Announcement - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
This film is about the communities of Gouldsboro, Prospect Harbor, Corea and Winter Harbor, Maine. Maine Public TV, Aug 28 at 11:30 am and Aug 29 at 11:30 pm. |
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Open Garden Days, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The public is invited to join the Belfast Garden Club's Open Garden Days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at the Biebel Garden, 242 Fisher Road, Monroe. Visitors will discover a large organic experimental and eclectic vegetable and flower garden with soil that never needs to be plowed or rototilled due to its rich start as a "lasagna-method" garden. |
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Walks, talk focus on history of St. George River canals
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Georges River Land Trust and Montpelier: General Henry Knox Museum are co-sponsoring three free events focused on the history of the canals along the St. George River in Warren and Searsmont. On Monday, Aug 30, two guided walks will be held. Knox's efforts in constructing the canal will be the subject of the third event, an evening lecture by Mendoza at Montpelier on Sep 1 at 7 p.m. |
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Maine Woodsman Day, Aug 28
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
See demonstrations of wildlife carving, including with chainsaws, and hatchet-throwing. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, August 28, 11 a.m. |
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Mushroom talk at Belfast library, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
On Aug 31 at 6:30 p.m., Belfast Free Library will host a talk titled "Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada" by David Spahr.
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Palermo Preserve walk, Aug 26
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
Professional forester and lands director for the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, Tish Carr will lead a nature walk at 10 a.m. on Aug 26 around the Palermo Preserve. |
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Astronomer illuminates concerns about dimming starshine, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 19, 2010
If the stars don't look as bright as they did when we were children, it might not be that stars have lost their sparkle. It could be that we have lost our night. On Friday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m., aerospace engineer and astronomer Peter Lord will appear at the Oceanview Grange south of Tenants Harbor. He will use satellite images to illustrate the amazing effect of night lighting around the earth. |
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Letter: Time for energy bill
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Our senators came home empty-handed on energy reform for the August recess, but it’s likely they’ll have another opportunity to address the issue in September. The legislation on the table would offer incentives for the production of more efficient electric cars, as well as promote clean energy technologies, actions that would protect our environment, and lower electricity and heating costs for Maine families. |
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DEP: Asphalt plant not giving off hazardous emissions
Capital Weekly - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Even though residents of the Grand View neighborhood off West River road are bothered by the odor coming from the asphalt plant located in the bottom of the McGee gravel pit, a state spokesman said air quality tests haven’t turned up anything hazardous to health. |
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COA seeks ideas to improve life on Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor Times - Saturday, August 14, 2010
What would you like to see improved on Mount Desert Island? It's not an idle question. College of the Atlantic's Sustainable Business Program is engaging students in a year-long class in social entrepreneurship. |
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NJ solo kayaker nears end of 740-mile trip
Associated Press - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Cathy Mumford, of Colts Neck, N.J., started her solo trip on June 19 in New York, and paddled through Vermont, southern Quebec, New Hampshire and Maine. As of Friday, she had 80 miles to go before finishing the 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail in Fort Kent on Monday. |
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Incentives drive up energy audits
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Maine recently extended its offer period for a $1,000 bonus, allowing homeowners to sign up by Aug. 31. Eligible owners who have an energy audit by Sept. 30 and make improvements by year's end that cut energy use by specific amounts can get as much as $5,500 in state rebates and federal tax credits. That extra grand -- and the looming deadlines -- seem to have kicked the weatherization market into overdrive, and some contractors say they can't meet demand. |
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Letter: Hearing next week on ban for Bisphenol A
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, August 14, 2010
On Aug. 19, the Maine DEP will have a hearing to decide if BPA should be banned. As a young woman and an advocate for reproductive health and choice, it is very important for me to know that when I wish to have children, I will be able to raise them in the healthiest and safest environment possible. By banning BPA, we will get one step closer to that ideal. |
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The Natural
Other - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Outside magazine - He dodges sharks, fends off charging elephants, and parries David Letterman with relaxed aplomb. Meet scientist and pitchman M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy, the wealthiest environmental organization on earth, coming soon to a channel near you. |
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Apple season ahead of schedule
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Maine apple growers say this year’s crop is about 10 days to two weeks ahead of schedule, which could create opportunities to lure tourists before Labor Day weekend. |
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Town questions grant for cannery conversion
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Though state and local officials have been intent for months on finding a new owner for the Stinson Seafood plant, which closed down this spring, selectmen have doubts about applying for a grant to help the likely buyer get up and running. At issue is exactly what the $400,000 federal Community Development Block Grant would be used for. |
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Four candidates debate in Rockland
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, August 14, 2010
Four of the five candidates for governor discussed alternative energy, the challenges facing Maine’s fishing industry and other issues important to island communities on Friday during the first official debate of the fall election. All four candidates expressed support for wind energy. Shawn Moody said the state must investigate all options. Kevin Scott suggested the state look into a revolving funds for energy project development. Libby Mitchell said she would support helping islands develop community wind power projects. Eliot Cutler went after Republican Paul LePage for expressing support for exploring for oil off the coast of Maine. |
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Gas Is Really Costing Us About $15 a Gallon
Other - Friday, August 13, 2010
Oil has many externalities. The gas we buy is far more expensive to our country than what any of us pay at the pump. Some things cannot be -- or should not be -- left to business spreadsheets. Yet taking the limits of economic calculus seriously has implications. It means that we cannot trust the market to solve its own problems -- to self-regulate and self-correct. It means that we need democratic action to place controls on corporate behavior. It means that some things must be considered not merely expensive but sacred, and defended against forces blind to their true value. |
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Letter: All must work together to curb climate change
Times Record - Friday, August 13, 2010
Climate change is not an idea, but an established fact. And ignoring the effects of climate change is at the peril of all of us. Wind power, though far from the answer to climate change, is one of the “stabilization wedges.” |
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Letter: A hasty decision
Lewiston Sun Journal - Friday, August 13, 2010
In their haste to adopt the "in" technology, the governor and his Wind Power Task Force neglected many factors. They did so to the detriment of this state and its residents. even as they created opportunities for private commercial gain with tax and other incentives. By contrast, offshore, ocean-sited wind farms offer the potential for much higher efficiency in wind-power generation, transmission and grid utilization. |
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Editorial: Open access to paperless records
Times Record - Friday, August 13, 2010
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting hit a roadblock when it requested documents from the Maine PUC as part of its research into the 2008 law to fast-track wind turbine development. The center initially was told it would cost upwards of $10,000 for the records. The center asked for a waiver. The state refused and amended its cost estimate to $36,239.52. Maine’s Freedom of Access Act needs to be brought into the 21st century, with provisions that would prevent governments from creating de facto barriers of difficulty and cost when the records being sought are only available in electronic form. |
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New artifacts found at Popham
Times Record - Friday, August 13, 2010
New excavation of the Popham Colony site reveals that English settlers there were mining and smelting iron ore. Signs of the industrial metal work further suggest the colonists were high-level specialists with plans for a permanent presence, not a rag-tag band of misfits. The English settlers arrived here in 1607 to establish a sister colony to Jamestown. The northern group left in 1608 in a pinnace called Virginia, widely regarded as the first English ship built in the New World. |
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Five congregations volunteer on city projects Saturday
Lewiston Sun Journal - Friday, August 13, 2010
Five churches in Lewiston have banded together, offering up about 100 volunteers, to tackle four projects on Saturday that the city hasn’t gotten to. Among them: clearing growth at Simard-Payne Memorial Park, picking up litter along the Sunnyside Park trails, clearing brush in overgrown trail sections at the high school. |
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Letter: Another call for public debate about wind power
Morning Sentinel - Friday, August 13, 2010
There have been reports regarding the poor performance of wind turbines in the news recently. It is very troubling to me to see the way this is downplayed by most of the media; and how wind energy is pushed forward as the cure-all for Maine’s dependence on oil.I don’t get it. The public has a right to have the honest facts about the effectiveness of wind power.
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Editorial: Waterfront zoning should balance competing interests
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 13, 2010
What's needed now is a solution that recognizes the importance of Portland's working waterfront, while allowing for the kind of diverse development that lets the property owners and the city capitalize on the desirability of being near the water. |
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Opinion: Restoring wolves needs national vision
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 13, 2010
Wolves were once abundant in the Eastern forests and across North America. Most are gone now. Fortunately, our thinking about wolves has changed as we've come to understand their crucial role in the function of natural ecosystems. Wolf numbers have increased in the northern Rocky Mountains and upper Midwest. But the job is far from done. We need a roadmap for establishing wolf populations in suitable habitat, including in New England. Scientists have identified nearly 30,000 square miles from upstate New York to Maine that could support wolves. |
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Plum Creek operates too close to rare plant
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 13, 2010
Plum Creek Timberlands notified officials that it had operated its timber harvesting too close to a rare plant in the Moosehead Lake region. The company reported the possible violation to the Forest Society of Maine which notified state agencies. An inspection team that determined that the plant, the lesser wintergreen, had not been damaged. |
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Nature can soon take its course in brook
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 13, 2010
All of the permits are in hand, contractors' bids will soon be in and, within a few weeks, the Lower Montsweag Brook dam will start coming down. Built in 1968, the dam created a mile-long impoundment that served as a backup freshwater supply for the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant. In 2008, the Chewonki Foundation became the dam's owner. Chewonki is now taking out the 200-foot-long dam, which will open up the brook to fish that migrate between fresh and salt waters. |
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Letter: Naive governor, legislature
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 13, 2010
Years from now we’ll look back on the network of wind turbines scarring the western Maine mountains and ask, “What on God’s green earth were we thinking? The answer will lead to the eventual dismantling of many wind turbines for the same reason we’re removing many hydro-electric dams today. In the rush to promote “jobs” and inexpensive clean energy, politicians and energy developers inflate benefits while ignoring or downplaying the environmental costs. |
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Letter: Naive governor, legislature
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 13, 2010
Years from now we’ll look back on the network of wind turbines scarring the western Maine mountains and ask, “What on God’s green earth were we thinking? The answer will lead to the eventual dismantling of many wind turbines for the same reason we’re removing many hydro-electric dams today. In the rush to promote “jobs” and inexpensive clean energy, politicians and energy developers inflate benefits while ignoring or downplaying the environmental costs. |
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Editorial: Old School Debate
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 13, 2010
The arguments in favor of building new, energy-efficient schools designed to match modern educational methods are compelling. But one of the victims is the old school. Planning for the old school’s fate before the new building project is approved is the best course. Even more important is planning for a use that enhances the community. But it’s hard to hit both targets. |
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You Can Protect Acadia | | Ever compare Acadia National Park to a piece of Swiss cheese? You should.Acadia is a majestic place ... | | 9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM |
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