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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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Pollution on the rise in Maine
Sun Journal - Friday, March 27, 2009
Toxic emissions and waste management data released by the U.S. EPA revealed that 99 facilities in Maine reported releasing 11.1 million pounds of chemicals into the environment. That's up 507,291 pounds over 2006 releases. |
Editorial: Bring this fishery back
Boston Globe - Friday, March 27, 2009
Within days of her confirmation as head of NOAA, Jane Lubchenco was meeting with New England fishermen to get their views on one of the thorniest decisions she will have to make: whether to back an extremely tight federal limit on commercial fishing for the season that begins May 1. |
Plans for posh Brownville resort still alive
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 27, 2009
Jim Dennehy, president of WHG Development, told town officials he has completed a feasibility study and the results are encouraging, but he still needs more time to file with the planning board. He has proposed construction of The Reserve at Norton Pond, a $500 million high-end resort for the Schoodic and Ebeemee lakes region. |
TransCanada eyes Sisk Mountain
Sun Journal - Thursday, March 26, 2009
TransCanada Corp. has submitted an application to gather wind and weather data on Sisk Mountain not far from the border with Quebec Province, state regulators said Wednesday. TransCanada Maine Wind Development Inc. is in the process of building a $320 million, 44-turbine commercial wind energy facility on nearby Kibby Mountain. |
Wind energy, health experts face off
Sun Journal - Thursday, March 26, 2009
After conducting extensive online research, Dr. Dora Ann Mills, the state's chief medical officer, said she agreed with former Gov. Angus King, a partner in Independence Wind, that distance is the key to preventing health problems. |
Letter: Paint hunting season
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 26, 2009
The article in the March 19 BDN warning the driving public about the annual highway hazard presented by moose made me wonder about the feasibility of a moose hunt using paint balls containing some type of nontoxic reflective paint. |
Maine blueberry company donates to bee research
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 26, 2009
The message the president of Jasper Wyman & Sons of Milbridge, Maine, the largest grower of wild blueberries in the United States, delivered this week was clear: “No bees, no blueberries.” |
MDI-area groups planning night sky festival
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 26, 2009
To help preserve the visibility of the night sky, the town of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park have taken steps to limit the amount of light pollution. Other MDI towns are considering doing the same. To build on these protections, area officials are planning a night sky festival to take place on MDI in late September. |
National park advocates laud gun ban ruling
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 26, 2009
National park advocacy groups voiced support for a federal court ruling last week that suspends a Bush administration regulation allowing loaded firearms in national parks. |
RadioActive
WERU Radio - Thursday, March 26, 2009
Ron Huber talks about whether “Umbrella Wetlands Mitigation” will allow the Maine DOT to build a port on Sears Island and the lawsuit he recently filed against the state in hopes of protecting the island. |
Acadia closes trails to protect peregrine falcons
Associated Press - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Acadia National Park has closed hiking trails around the Precipice Cliff to protect peregrine falcons that have been showing pre-nesting behavior. The closure of the popular trail on Champlain Mountain is expected to last until late July or early August. |
Maine and New Brunswick leaders eye energy partnership
Associated Press - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Gov. John Baldacci and New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham held back-to-back news conferences in New Brunswick and Maine to reaffirm their interest in cooperating regionally on energy development and transmission. |
Letter: Thoughts on pike
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The recent comments of my former colleague from IF&W regarding the movements of invasive species are much ado about nothing. Mr. Johnson can undoubtedly confirm that the several non-native species introduced to Moosehead Lake on his watch surely didn’t migrate up the Kennebec River. |
Maine, New Brunswick Announce Plan For Energy Corridor
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Governor John Baldacci and New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham joined Irving Oil today to announce that they are working together to move forward their plan for a Northeast Energy Corridor. They say it would improve electrical transmission between Maine and Canada and allow for more renewable energy development. |
Editorial: Paper’s Future
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
In the era of corporate bailouts, it may come as a surprise that Maine’s old-line manufacturing industry, pulp and paper, doesn’t need a check from the government. But it does need attention to its new challenges, which state policymakers would do well to consider. |
Vacation on vacation as economy takes toll on business
Morning Sentinel - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
You only have to attend a sportsman's show, a staple of Maine springtime, to see that for those who make the outdoors their business, business is hurting. The shows are starting to look like some sort of a wake. |
State seeks help with observations
Morning Sentinel - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Heron Observation Network makes its debut in Maine this spring, just in time to help the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife conduct its census for nesting great blue herons and other colonial wading birds. |
Help sought to find blue heron colonies
Sun Journal - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is seeking public help to find active great blue heron colonies this spring for a long overdue census undertaking. |
Editorial: Environmental Economics
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A coalition of some 30 environmental groups pitched its agenda to state policymakers recently and wisely focused on just seven priorities. If environmentalists keep their goals tied to demonstrable economic and public health benefits, they will continue to win. |
Landowner wins round on rail trail
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Landowner Dale Henderson has won a preliminary battle with the state in a dispute involving a stretch of former railroad bed that runs through his property in Hancock and Washington counties. A judge ruled last week that Henderson can keep — at least temporarily — barricades he erected to hinder people from traversing his land. |
Big expansion at Old Town landfill sought
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Juniper Ridge landfill, already an onerous presence for many area residents, is planning a major expansion. If the plan is approved, the licensed capacity of the state-owned facility would more than triple to 30.2 million cubic yards. |
DOC unveils product that lists boat launching information
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Maine Department of Conservation has tapped into the power of Google Earth technology in order to pinpoint the location of every state-funded public recreational launch facility in the state. |
Scholar: Nations could help stem warming
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 23, 2009
Due to global warming, the Earth will see massive ice melt-offs at both polar caps between 2060 and 2100, contributing to a rise in sea levels around the world, says Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. |
Climate proposals feel a bit of a chill
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 23, 2009
Maine's Legislature will soon take up some landmark proposals to combat climate change. The recession and a split vote on a minor bill raise fears that global warming policies may stall. |
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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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