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March 10, 2010
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Press releases, events, publications released, etc. from Maine environmental organizations and agencies. Submit content.
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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Opinion: Government needs to fix problems it creates
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Flawed regulation and overregulation are killing the industries of Maine from the forest areas to coastal regions. Our closed factories, our exporting of timber to Canada, our massive job loss may not get the national headlines of Detroit, but affect us just as severely. We need Washington to get out of the way and let us do what we do best: work hard and succeed.
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Letter: Inconvenient truths
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Proponents of wind development need to abandon obfuscation and address the real facts, including those that prove inconvenient to their goals. |
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Cultivating pollinators aids harvests
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
One out of every three bites of food you eat depends on insect pollination. In the garden, you depend on pollinators, mainly bees, for success with tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, cucumbers and melons, peas and beans, strawberries, blueberries and other fruits. As you plan for the coming season in the garden, what steps will you take to ensure that these all-important pollinators will be there with you? |
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Schoodic center awarded $4.7 million in federal funds
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
The Schoodic Education Research Center will receive almost $4.7 million in federal stimulus funds to complete the conversion of the former Winter Harbor Navy base into a natural science research center. Acadia National Park will use the funds to complete the work of converting the site from a military base to a more collegelike campus. |
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Maine fishermen share concerns with federal officials
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 06, 2010
Top officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard met with representatives of Maine’s commercial fishing industry on Friday to discuss concerns about new catch restrictions and mariner safety. |
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Energy corridor bill’s jobs claim questioned
Times Record - Friday, March 05, 2010
Before a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday, lawmakers appeared before the Committee on Utilities and Energy, many voicing as much support for job creation as for establishing control over energy transmission corridors erected along Interstate 95 corridor. Hydro-Quebec is not the only company competing for Maine’s electric grid and supply chain. Midwestern coal and wind companies also want to transmit electricity to Maine. |
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Opinion: 10 reasons not to revive the nuclear power industry
Times Record - Friday, March 05, 2010
In response to your Feb. 16 editorial criticizing President Obama’s decision to provide $36 billion in new federal loan guarantees for the nuclear power industry, I would add these 10 reasons why nuclear power is the wrong answer to our nation’s energy needs. |
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Opinion: What’s at stake in western Maine?
Times Record - Friday, March 05, 2010
On the morning of April 18, 2008, the natural character of Maine’s mountains were largely protected from industrial development by statute. By sundown, with a stroke of the governor’s pen, the mountains in more than two-thirds of the state had been effectively rezoned for the development of industrial wind turbine facilities. Take a close look at the Highland wind project and its harsh impact on resources such as the Bigelow Preserve and the Appalachian Trail. How much mountaintop ruination can Maine stand? |
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Pesticide Spraying Bill Divides Lawmakers
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, March 05, 2010
A legislative panel has issued three reports on a bill that was supposed to clarify the notification process for Mainers living near areas where aerial or air carrier spraying takes place. And in some instances, the majority report of the Legislature's Agricultural, Conservation and Forestry Committee actually reduces the buffer area in which notification from landowners will be required. |
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NMFS Head Promises to Restore Confidence in Beleaguered Agency
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, March 05, 2010
A top federal fishing regulator who was visiting Maine today says the government is taking steps to restore confidence in its oversight of the industry in the Northeast. The visit of National Marine Fisheries Service Adminstrator Eric Schwaab comes as beleaguered ground fishermen prepare to launch a controversial new system of rules aimed at conserving stocks. |
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Opinion: Proposed rules for culverts would costmore than 'pittance'
Kennebec Journal - Friday, March 05, 2010
Environmentalists and sportsmen are concerned about the ability of fish and other "aquatic organisms" to make it upstream and through culverts located in Maine's waterways. Some culverts are either sized or installed in such a fashion as to make that difficult. A proposed rule before the Legislature requires any new or repaired culvert to be installed to allow "natural stream flow." The cost increases, in some cases, will be significant.
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Monsanto seeks state approval for new modified corn
Kennebec Journal - Friday, March 05, 2010
The state Board of Pesticides Control is considering an application from multinational biotech company Monsanto to register a new genetically engineered corn with a built-in pesticide for use in Maine. "MOFGA opposes the registration of the new Monsanto field corns and sweet corns," Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Executive Director Russell Libby said. |
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Editorial: Federal energy funds should not create jobs overseas
Portland Press Herald - Friday, March 05, 2010
The whole point of the federal government's stimulus program is to create jobs. In America. Unfortunately, that's not how it's working out. A program aimed at building wind farms and other clean-energy projects is spending too much with overseas vendors. That might generate economic activity, but it won't do us much good if it's in the wrong economy. |
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Parking, parking everywhere
Portland Press Herald - Friday, March 05, 2010
When Portland's waterfront was a hub of transportation and fishing activity, the piers were covered with buildings. Most have been demolished, and today more than three-fourths of the area that could be developed in the central waterfront zone has no buildings. "We don't have a working waterfront," said Don Perkins, executive director of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. "We have a parking waterfront."
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Cell towers, wind turbines on hold in Penobscot
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 05, 2010
Voters at the annual town meeting approved two moratoriums that will give the town time to develop ordinances to regulate communications towers and wind turbines. |
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Port Clyde co-op helps fishermen make most of catch
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 05, 2010
A group of local fishermen has discovered that a way to do work sustainably also may be what keeps them financially afloat in an era of new, tighter federal regulations and quotas. A dozen commercial fishermen in Port Clyde are allowed to catch fewer fish than ever, but by processing and selling their own catches, the fishermen say they are making more money with less product. |
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St. David trucking firm workers to get federal aid
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 05, 2010
Twelve employees of a St. David trucking company are now eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance, U.S. 2nd District Rep. Mike Michaud announced Thursday. “The loss of business at Little River Transport is directly linked to the downturn in the domestic paper industry, which is due to increased foreign imports that have flooded the U.S. market,” Michaud said. |
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Bucky's World
Bangor Metro - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Buckminster Fuller was America’s most colorful green advocate long before the term was coined. His family’s summer home on Bear Island in Penobscot Bay provided a natural template for his wide-ranging mind, which produced 30 books, 28 patents, more than 150 awards and honorary degrees, and an intellectual legacy that continues to inspire new generations of scientists and inventors 27 years after his death. Fuller is most famous for inventing the geodesic dome. |
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Steward for Success
Bangor Metro - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Jim Page is chief executive officer of the 130-year-old James W. Sewall Company. Sewall’s experts provide inventory and appraisal services for some of the largest forestland transactions in the country, and engineering services to the emerging renewable energy market. An ardent conservationist, Page occasionally walks four miles into the woods to reach an isolated family camp, which features a view of Mount Katahdin. |
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Opinion: Mountaintop Wind Power Is Not Green
Bangor Metro - Thursday, March 04, 2010
To call mountaintop wind operations “farms” is nothing more than PR. Farms suggest a positive relationship with the land. The industrial wind operations are nothing less than massive electrical generating facilities that destroy the quality of place and pose serious health problems for both humans and wildlife. |
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New tech company counting on fish
Mainebiz - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Two young entrepreneurs with an eclectic background in laser technology, marine engineering and sediment analysis have won a couple of startup grants to devise a new tool to help fish farmers. |
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Chips Fly in Augusta Over Logging Bills
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Lawmakers are considering two bills that supporters claim would provide Maine woodsmen with a level playing field as they compete with Canadians for work. Representatives of the forest products industry, who oppose the measures, say the reason Canadians are getting jobs over American loggers is geography. |
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Chewonki Foundation hires new president
Times Record - Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Chewonki Foundation of Wiscasset announced Wednesday that Willard Morgan will replace Don Hudson as the new president of the environmental education organization. Morgan spent the past six years as the head of the foundation’s semester school. |
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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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