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March 10, 2010
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Wild Poetry, Mar 14
Event - Posted - Saturday, March 06, 2010
A nature writing workshop for ages 8 and older. Leaders: Cheryl Daigle, Penobscot River Restoration Trust, and Holly Twining, naturalist. At Fields Pond Audubon Center, Holden, ME. March 14, 1-3 p.m. Registration fee. |
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American Loggers, Fridays, 10 p.m.
Announcement - Saturday, March 06, 2010
In the far northeastern the U.S. lies a vast primeval back-country known as the North Maine Woods. This breathtaking wilderness constitutes the single largest swath of unprotected forest north of the Mississippi. The men of Pelletier Inc., seven brothers and their sons, lead their crews deep into the Maine wilderness to claw out a living. American Loggers follows this hearty breed, marveling at their stubborn dedication and ingenuity as they tackle the forests of northern Maine. Discovery Channel, Fridays at 10 p.m. |
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Maine Wildlife Appreciation Day, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Friday, March 05, 2010
Gov. John Baldacci has proclaimed March 9, 2010, as Maine Wildlife Appreciation Day. Conservation interests will have exhibits in the Hall of Flags in the State House in Augusta, 9AM - 12 Noon. |
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Pro Wolf Rally, Mar 6
Event - Posted - Friday, March 05, 2010
To protest Cabela's wolf killing derbies. March 6, Noon to 2PM, near Cabela's store in Scarborough, ME. |
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Babson Creek nature walks
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Maine Coast Heritage Trust is offering a series of late winter/early spring Thursday afternoon nature walks at its Babson Creek Preserve in Somesville. The walks will be from 3 to 4 p.m. on March 11, 18, and 25 and April 1 and 8. |
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Carnivore conservation, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Fresh from a seven-month journey through British Columbia and Alaska, conservationist Susie O'Keeffe will discuss carnivore conservation. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, McCormick Lecture Hall, March 9, 4:10 p.m. |
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Fly Fishing Film Tour, Mar 11-12
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
The national Fly Fishing Film Tour is coming to Maine on March 11 and 12 at Frontier Cafe and Cinema in Brunswick. |
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Why Wild Places Need to Stay Wild, Mar 10
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Panel Discussion with Bernd Heinrich, Robert Kimber, Richard Fectaeu and Meg Gilmartin. Followed by Question and Answer period. March 10 at 7pm, UMaine Farmington, Roberts Room C23. |
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Lurking in the Trees
Event - Posted - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
A documentary about the devastating impact of the invasive Asian Long-horned Beetle. The movie will be shown March 17, 6PM, Lisbon Falls, UMaine Cooperative Extension Office (pre-registration requested); April 15, 6:30 PM, Augusta, Pine Tree State Arboretum; May 20, 6:30 PM, Belfast, Belfast Free Library. |
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Maritime film series set
Event - Posted - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
This month, The Apprenticeshop partners with Maine Boats, Home & Harbors to present In Our Wake: Maine's Maritime Heritage on Film, a series of screenings of historic films in Bucksport and Rockland. |
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The National Parks: The Morning of Creation, Mar 3
Announcement - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The series finale covers the years 1946-80. Following World War II, the parks see a dramatic increase in visitors, resulting in a billion-dollar campaign to improve facilities and infrastructure. MPBN, March 3, 8PM. |
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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Sunday, February 28, 2010
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation news stories and events. 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 our attention a few days after they are published. |
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Winter Tree Identification, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Sunday, February 28, 2010
On March 9 from 12 Noon - 2P M, Morten Moesswilde, District Forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead a field workshop on tree and shrub identification at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. |
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Protecting the Nature of Maine, Feb 28
Announcement - Friday, February 26, 2010
A documentary film about the first fifty years of the Natural Resources Council of Maine will be broadcast on MPBN Feb 28 at 10:30PM. |
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Canadian union’s vote keeps Fraser going
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
Fraser Papers hurdled its last obstacle to escaping bankruptcy protection Sunday as a Canadian union accepted a revised contract that allows Fraser to shed most of $185 million in pension obligations. |
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Ban on imported campfire wood eyed
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
Campers headed to Maine from other states wouldn’t be allowed to bring their own firewood under a proposed law headed toward passage in the Legislature. Lawmakers want to protect Maine from destructive bugs that have wiped out huge swaths of trees in other states. |
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Logger treatment stirred readers
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
Muckraking journalism was in its heyday a century ago. In the winter of 1910, conditions in logging camps attracted the public eye. Thousands of men went to these camps each winter to cut a new crop of logs. Bangor was a major recruitment center for loggers — choppers, sawyers, swampers, teamsters and a multitude of other rough-and-ready characters who felled the trees and got the logs to the rivers for the spring drives. On March 8, 1910, the Bangor Daily News ran a series of short pieces offering diverse views about whether loggers were being cheated and mistreated. |
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Students build working solar panels
Lewiston Sun Journal - Monday, March 08, 2010
An alternative education class in Rumford has built solar panels from a bunch of copper pipes, plywood and reflective material would really heat hot water. In their next project, an experiment to capture both wind and water power, students will build an 8-foot turbine made of pieces of split PVC pipe attached to a bicycle wheel. |
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Sweet honor for Rahmani
Herald Gazette - Sunday, March 07, 2010
A print by Vinalhaven eco-artist Aviva Rahmani has been chosen for the 2010 Climate Change Communicator of the Year awards by the Center for Climate Change Communication at Virginia's George Mason University. Rahmani said her "Beautiful View" series is about slow time as we adapt to the consequences of climate change. The paradox she sees is in how the small, the fast and the vast co-exist. |
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Opinion: Connecting chemicals and obesity
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, March 07, 2010
In the U.S., we have an obesity epidemic. More than 20% of adults are clinically obese, and an additional 30% are overweight. The linkage between obesity and other devastating health problems is well documented. Most perplexing is the growth in obesity in infants. Research has focused on prenatal exposures to chemicals in our environment that could the ante for obesity risk. |
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Voters reject wind power moratorium ordinance
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, March 07, 2010
Weld voters rejected establishing a six-month moratorium on wind development facilities on Saturday. However, they decided informally to set up a committee to explore options on setting guidelines for commercial facilities to be built in the town. |
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Making it easier to be green
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 07, 2010
Bright skies and warmth welcomed the IZStyle World Tour to the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry on Saturday. The two-day stop in Maine is part of an effort to educate skiers and snowboarders about reducing their environmental impact. |
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Letter: Column on climate dangers spread falsehoods, confusion
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 07, 2010
American media continue to treat us to nonsense like the column, "Record snow falls on a warming planet" by Bill McKibben. His novel thesis – that global warming causes both droughts and precipitation – is standard oxymoronic fare for warmists. |
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Letters: Wind project raises serious concerns
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 07, 2010
There is a tide in Maine that is threatening to sweep away many of our state's treasures. The mountains of rural Maine have been targeted by our lawmakers and the wind industry for rapid development. We all want clean energy, but we must not liquidate our greatest assets in pursuit of expediency....Maine can contribute to green energy in two ways: water power and wood. Both of these uses of Maine resources make much more sense than paying someone to destroy our mountains. |
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Think tank challenges status quo
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 07, 2010
A new, nonpartisan think tank, Envision Maine, wants to push questions about essential services government must deliver with the public and the large field of candidates running for governor. |
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Experts warn of disruptions as oceans' low-oxygen zones spread
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 07, 2010
Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted. |
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USSA Junior Olympic races to begin Monday
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Some of the nation’s best 14- to 19-year-old Nordic skiers will compete over four days at the Nordic Heritage Center in Presque Isle. The Cross Country Junior Olympics is the largest junior ski event in the country. |
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NStar Green seeks rate hike
Boston Globe - Saturday, March 06, 2010
About 8,000 customers who pay a premium to ensure that a portion of their electricity is generated by wind could be hit with a rate hike that will increase their monthly bills by as much as 16 percent by next month. |
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Should We Put a Dollar Value on Nature?
TIME - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Nature lovers might cringe at the term "ecosystem services" to describe, say, the view of a pristine beach or a stream teeming with trout. But a growing number of experts within the scientific and economic communities say that putting real economic value on components of nature will help protect the environment and promote biodiversity. |
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Handheld water purifiers presented to Warden Service
Capital Weekly - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Hydro-Photon and Elscott Manufacturing presented first-run Maine-made SteriPEN Defender handheld water purifiers Friday to Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Augusta. In the recent past, members of the Warden Service have contracted water-borne illnesses while working in Maine’s back country. |
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Letter: 'Chaotic, unpredictable'weather sign of warming
Morning Sentinel - Saturday, March 06, 2010
The mechanics of a global warming are not so different from the sinking (or near-sinking) of a huge ship. It does not happen in one smooth slide; it comes in jolts and chaotic, unpredictable heaves. It involves cold where there has never been cold, drought in rainy countries, huge rainstorms in areas traditionally dry -- weather upended and violent. |
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Panel clears modified corn
Kennebec Journal - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Maine now allows 19 Bt products to be planted in fields now that Monsanto, a multinational biotech company, won its bid to register its new Bacillus thuringiensis corn here. Chuck Ravis, professor of environmental science and ecology at Thomas College, was the sole member of the Board of Pesticides Control to vote against the genetically engineered seed. |
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Letters: It's wrong to deny global warming
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Global warming does not mean that everywhere gets hotter at an equal rate. Local temperatures will vary. The long-term result of excessive carbon emissions is more accurately labeled "climate change."...Whether you believe in climate change or not, the crux of the debate is about whether or not to invest in clean energy. |
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Editorial: Venture capital bills should be backed
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Everyone agrees that Maine's traditional industries alone are not going to provide the jobs we need to recover from this recession. But what is? At least part of the answer lies in new businesses in the technology sector that provide higher pay and more security than older businesses, which are now struggling with plant closures and layoffs. The challenge for public policymakers will be helping these new businesses get started. |
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Brutal storms hit beaches hard
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Officials are poised to declare an emergency, but federal dollars can't replace miles of eroded beach and thousands of downed trees. The damage was caused by a confluence of weather forces. It started with torrential rain, which weakened root systems. Then, powerful winds hammered trees to the ground and snapped others. Those winds created a 4.37-foot tidal surge, just shy of the record set in 1947, at the worst time, an astronomical high tide. |
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Can-Am teams eager for start
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Dog sledding teams are running several races this weekend from Fort Kent, including the Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown 250, the Can-Am Willard Jalbert 60-mile race, and the Can-Am Pepsi Bottling Co. 30-mile race. |
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Moon snails destroying Down East clams
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Landings of softshell clams in the Cobscook Bay area have decreased 100 percent in the last two decades, Dr. Brian Beal of the University of Maine said Friday, and moon snails are to blame. |
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Farmers: ‘Be patient,’ don’t plant yet
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
With plenty of sun on the way and temperatures near 50 predicted for this weekend, farmers are warning backyard gardeners to rein in their enthusiasm and hold off before planting seeds. |
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Opinion: What’s bad about wind power? More than just noise
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
We might be more inclined to embrace industrial wind power if it made sense for Maine. If there were a shortage of electricity, if Maine weren’t already a leader in renewables, if wind actually did anything to reduce oil usage, if 1,800 mountain-marring turbines on 360 miles of blasted ridge could contribute more than 5 percent of the grid’s electric needs, and if turbine noise did not cause harm, then maybe we’d think the benefits are worth the costs. |
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Natural Resources Council of Maine
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A Vision for the North Woods | | The long-simmering debate over the future of Maine's northern woodlands is about to move back to the... | | 3/9/2010 12:00:00 AM |
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