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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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Baldacci Unveils $306 Million Borrowing Plan
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Governor John Baldacci today unveiled a $306 million state borrowing plan. The plan includes $43.4 million for the Land for Maine's Future program, working waterfronts, clean water and environmental protection; and $15.5 million for energy conservation and the development of offshore wind power. |
Editorial: Who owns our water?
Times Record - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Should our water be a commodity that can be bought by a private company and sold for profit elsewhere And, if so, who has the right to decide whether such transactions are in the public's best interest? |
Obama resuming safeguards for endangered species
Associated Press - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
President Barack Obama urged agency heads Tuesday to ignore a Bush administration regulation limiting scientific reviews of projects that might harm endangered wildlife and plants. |
Pesky beavers causing towns to run up bills
Sun Journal - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Depressed beaver pelt prices have resulted in several Maine towns being overrun by the cute, fuzzy but destructive rodents, costing thousands of dollars in road repairs and removal costs. A bill that would allow town officials to shoot beavers was scrutinized Tuesday. |
Hunting preserves bill draws crowd
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
About 50 people attended a public hearing this morning on a bill that would close down the nine remaining big game hunting preserves in the state |
Opinion: Commercial shooting areas can help keep farmers farming
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Personally, I can justify almost anything for a tasty piece of venison. I do not ascribe any rights to animals. Simply put, commercial shooting areas keep farmers farming, put meat on the table, offer exciting experiences and are more humane than most of the techniques used to slaughter animals. |
3 to pay costs in Earth First! protest
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Three women who chained themselves together in a state office building last fall to protest Plum Creek's development plan for the Moosehead Lake region were found guilty Tuesday of committing criminal trespass. They were ordered to pay $328 for cutting the locks off and to do 60 hours of community service.
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Let the big ones get away?
Portland Press Herald - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Commercial fishing might be causing genetic changes in ocean fish, making them smaller and less fertile. A study concludes that taking too many large fish out of a population leads to the birth of smaller fish over time. The study also found that fish can grow larger again if the big ones are allowed to get away. |
Opinion: Switch now to carbon-friendly forestry
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Forest Ecology Network recently launched the Climate Change and Forest Restoration Campaign. FEN is calling for the Maine Woods to be designated a National Carbon Storage Forest. |
Letter: Logging profitability
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Jonathan Carter and other advocates for the so-called protection of the northern forestlands of Maine have missed the obvious solution. The plan is simple — direct the Legislature to pass laws that make growing and harvesting trees a profitable business again and make it illegal to sell to those who would lock us out. |
Seaweed harvests stir opposition Down East
Associated Press - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
A Canadian company has been harvesting rockweed in Cobscook Bay, which is also the site of commercial fisheries including scallops, clams and lobsters. Critics see rockweed harvests as a threat to a fragile habitat. |
Legislators warned of possible pike threat
Associated Press - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
A plan to reopen river habitat to Atlantic salmon and other sea-run fish could enable an invasive species to infiltrate a prized fishery, biologists and anglers told Maine legislators. |
State set to hire marketing expert for Sears Island
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Maine Department of Transportation plans to spend up to $100,000 on a professional consultant that will help create a marketing package likely to attract would-be developers for the long-planned shipping port on Sears Island in Penobscot Bay. |
Editorial: On issues, money isn't everything
Sun Journal - Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Shooting red deer, elk or bison trucked into Maine for the purpose of slaughter for the amusement of hunters not game enough to try their luck on native species borders on cowardly. It shouldn't be allowed. |
Global Warming Influences Cold Weather Industry
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Mother Nature has been good to New England ski areas this winter. But the ski industry knows that won't always be the case. Global warming is already a reality in many ski resorts' business plans. |
Biologists warn of northern pike invasion
Associated Press - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Retired state biologist Paul Johnson told the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee today that a plan to restore sea-run fish such as Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot River by enabling them to bypass dams will let the pike in valuable upstream fisheries. |
Review supports groundfish research
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Fish population estimates that are driving severe fishing restrictions in New England are based on the best available science, although federal fisheries managers need to work better with the industry to erase doubts and expand research, according to a new federal report. |
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Other - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Atlantic, March 2009 - The places likely to suffer most from the crash—especially in the long run—are in older, manufacturing regions whose heydays are long past. |
Katahdin Region Forest Cluster Enhancement Project
Other - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
We wanted to know what secondary products could be made in the Katahdin Region. After a great deal of analysis we found there were few secondary products that the Katahdin Region could produce at a comparative advantage that couldn’t be just as easily and more cheaply produced in China. |
Editorial: New battles in Maine's timber wars
Sun Journal - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Jonathan Carter, a veteran of the mid-1990s "timber wars" over clear-cutting, is back with another proposal for preserving the woods: leaving millions of acres untouched, to allow nature's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the environment and soothe the effects of global climate change. If Carter can unlock the funds to make "carbon sequestration" practical for private landowners in Maine, his idea should garner support. |
Thousands rally at D.C. power plant
Associated Press - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Several thousand demonstrators on Monday urged Congress to pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gases, and they targeted the government's own Capitol power plant as a symbol of the problem. |
Lawmaker urges tax on heating oil
Sun Journal - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
A bill aimed at reducing Maine's dependence on foreign oil would levy a tax on your oil bill to help fund energy-efficiency initiatives. |
Hearings look to raise hunt, fish fees
Kennebec Journal - Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Hunters, trappers and lobstermen will get a chance this week to tell lawmakers how they feel about proposed increases in license fees. |
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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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Maine Organic Farmers and
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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