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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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Indoor air quality conference on Wednesday
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 23, 2009
Maine Indoor Air Quality Council’s annual conference on Wednesday is scheduled between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Augusta Civic Center. |
Paddle Maine's Allagash River
Other - Monday, March 23, 2009
Outside, April 2009 - Round up a few good buddies and float 93 miles along the white-spruce-lined shores of Maine's Allagash Wilderness Waterway. |
Opinion: Taking No for an Answer
Other - Sunday, March 22, 2009
Endless Energy’s effort to put a wind farm on Redington Mountain is a bad idea that won’t die the death it sorely needs. In fact, the idea seems to get worse all the time. Promoter Harley Lee’s new strategy is to end run LURC by asking the legislature to allow Carrabassett Valley to annex the necessary land. |
Editorial: Finding a balance of power
Sun Journal - Sunday, March 22, 2009
Maine's PUC has tough decisions to make as it reviews competing proposals that seek similar goals. The first, a beefed-up Maine transmission grid proposed by Central Maine Power Co., would improve the reliability of the state's existing energy grid. An alternative is a proposal by GridSolar LLC to create new solar generation for local consumption. The ideal would be competitors GridSolar and CMP working together to produce a third alternative that expands grid capacity while strengthening our ability to generate electricity locally, especially with green technologies. |
Hebron voters reject wind power ordinance
Sun Journal - Sunday, March 22, 2009
About 75 residents spent an hour in sometimes feisty discussions about the need to regulate windmills on private property. Many voters argued that residents must have an opportunity to talk about the issue at a public forum prior to voting. |
Thorndike imposes wind-turbine delay
Morning Sentinel - Sunday, March 22, 2009
At the annual town meeting on Saturday, more than 150 residents approved a six-month moratorium on wind turbine development. The moratorium is aimed at collecting more information, upgrading existing land use ordinances and addressing environmental, land-impact and tax issues regarding commercial electricity-producing turbines. |
Land-use rule bill worries officials
Morning Sentinel - Sunday, March 22, 2009
A proposed change to development rules by the Maine DEP is a significant concern for the chairman of Farmington's Planning Board. One change would direct large commercial and residential projects -- a pellet mill, a Lowe's Home Center or a 30-plus-lot subdivision -- to be built within a town's commercial center or designated growth area. |
Cianbro head has a vision for Maine
Kennebec Journal - Sunday, March 22, 2009
Peter Vigue sounds a lot like a candidate for governor. But he insists he has no ambition to run for political office. Vigue's vision for the state includes leasing 200 miles of state land around I-95 for energy transmission, "weatherizing" all homes, building wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine, giving potential investors a new building and equipment at no charge, developing more locally grown foods, creating a virtual medical school, extending I-95 north, increasing the use of rail systems, and attracting private investment for a $2 billion east-west highway corridor, funded by tolls. |
Many women enjoy Sportsmen's Show
Kennebec Journal - Sunday, March 22, 2009
The fifth annual Pine Tree Sportsmen's Show was prime hunting grounds for Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW), an organization that trains women to enjoy outdoor sports in a noncompetitive setting. |
Products of a 'hardy' region
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 22, 2009
At the New England Products Trade Show in Portland on Saturday, business owners were looking to match buyers with their products. "Everybody's going green." |
Scientists focus on climate change
Associated Press - Sunday, March 22, 2009
As the regional meeting of the Geological Society of America kicked off in Portland Sunday, climate change was an overarching theme. |
Appalachian Trail Grows North of the Border
New York Times - Sunday, March 22, 2009
In the early 1990s, the Appalachian Trail crossed the border into Canada from Mount Katahdin in Maine, and became the International Appalachian Trail. It now runs through New Brunswick, Quebec and Newfoundland. |
Wind farm proposed for Carthage
Sun Journal - Saturday, March 21, 2009
Carthage, a small western Maine town, is the latest site for possible wind turbine development. Patriot Renewables is also planning a 6- to 12-turbine project in Woodstock. Other area wind projects in various stages of planning include Black Mountain in Rumford and a site in Roxbury. |
Otten's plan will prove a hard sell
Kennebec Journal - Saturday, March 21, 2009
Recently, Les Otten offered advice for expanding this state's hunting, fishing, boating, snowmobiling and ATV tourism. We should measure the opinions of people who hunt and fish here, and we should study what other destination states are doing. His advice then gets dicey. We should protect hunting-and-fishing resources, which requires stricter regulations. |
Letter: Game ranch positives
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 21, 2009
Rather than ban game ranches, the Legislature should increase the number currently allowed. |
Letter: Lies about lynx
Sun Journal - Friday, March 20, 2009
The placing of Canadian lynx on the threatened species list was based on politics and lies, rather than wildlife biology. |
Poland Spring wins Fryeburg battle
Portland Press Herald - Friday, March 20, 2009
The bottler can build a long-planned pumping station after justices void the town's revocation of a permit. |
Letter: Keep wind power local
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 20, 2009
LD199, “An Act to Facilitate Wind Power Siting,” would take the authority to regulate wind turbines away from individual towns and give the state exclusive regulatory authority. |
Lincoln exploring tax options for First Wind
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 20, 2009
With the Town Council’s first try at negotiating a 20-year tax break for First Wind essentially dead due to a deadlocked vote, councilors will meet Monday to resume talks with the windpower proponent. |
Towns keep control over wind, water
Bangor Daily News - Friday, March 20, 2009
Lawmakers heard hours of often emotional testimony Thursday on bills that highlight growing tensions over the use of Maine's abundant wind and water resources. |
Opinion: With Yucca Mountain off the table, what's next?
Times Record - Friday, March 20, 2009
While it looks gloomy for getting a nuclear waste repository built soon, it does not mean that Congress is unsympathetic to decommissioned reactor sites, like Maine Yankee where the owner of the waste has to manage it as well as seek damages for the government's contractual obligation to remove the spent fuel. |
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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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