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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Saturday, May 18, 2013
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation and natural resource news stories and events. I have posted links to more than 23,000 news articles and announcements. I also post breaking stories and exclusives. Be sure to check not only today's news, 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. Will Sugg is the website developer. ~ Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE: The North Woods |
Thorne Head Birding, May 25
Event - Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013
Thorne Head Preserve in Bath, on the Maine Birding Trail, is rich in migrating warblers and vireos.
Meet at CVS, Bath, May 25, 7:15 am to carpool. Sponsored by Merrymeeting Audubon, Kennebec Estuary Land Trust, and Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust. |
Pond Life: Gills, Webbing and Air Bubbles, May 25
Event - Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013
Families are invited to the museum to dip nets in the pond and go on an exploration of wildlife that lives in the wetlands. See and learn how animals adapt to water. At L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, May 25,1 pm. |
10th Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival, May 24-27
Event - Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013
The annual Down East Spring Birding Festival provides a unique birding experience during spring migration and the breeding season with four days of self-guided explorations, guided hikes, boat tours and presentations led by area experts. May 24-27. |
Chimney Swifts, May 24
Event - Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013
Enjoy the spectacle of a hundred or more swifts in migration swirling into their chimney roost before they continue to their breeding locations. Carpool from Brunswick Hannaford, May 24 at 7 pm. Sponsored by Merrymeeting Audubon. |
Birding at Hedgehog Mountain, May 24
Event - Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013
Hedgehog Mountain is a gem owned by the town of Freeport. See migrating songbirds, including warblers, sparrows, grosbeaks, tanagers and more. May 24, 7–9 am. Maine Audubon members $5, non-members $8. |
Scarborough Marsh Full Moon Canoe Tour, May 24 & 25
Event - Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013
Experience the sights and sounds of marsh creatures under the full moon. At Scarborough Marsh, May 24 and May 25, 7:30–9:30 pm. Maine Audubon members $11, non-members $13. |
No Tar Sands Oil in Casco Bay
Action Alert - Thursday, May 16, 2013
This petition asks the South Portland City Council to protect public health, the environment, and property values from the impacts of transporting tar sands oil through South Portland and exporting it from Casco Bay. |
Ecopsychology, May 23
Event - Posted - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Dennis Kiley from the Institute for Integrative Living will give this presentation about an emerging discipline that integrates the fields of ecology and psychology to support environmental and human growth. At Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, May 23 at 7 pm. |
Pennellville Birding, May 22
Event - Posted - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This easy trail goes through varied habitats, by ponds and ends at a saltwater cove. You will see Bobolinks, woodpeckers, warblers, some nesting songbirds, and hopefully some ducks, eagles, hawks and ospreys. Meet at Brunswick Hannaford, May 22 at 7 am to carpool or at the soccer field on Pennellville Rd in Brunswick at 7:30 am. Sponsored by Merrymeeting Audubon. |
Day Hikes on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, May 22
Event - Posted - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Aislinn Sarnacki, hiker and outdoors writer for the Bangor Daily News, will speak at a meeting of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. At Brewer Performing Arts Center, May 22, at 6:30 pm. |
Accessing the Maine Coast
Announcement - Monday, May 13, 2013
In the mid 1970s the Maine State Planning Office completed an inventory of public access ways to the coast in Maine. That information has never been publicized. This website will not tell you where you can legally get to the water, but it contains information to help waterfront users, coastal communities, and land owners address issues related to coastal access cooperatively, possibly reducing the need for litigation. |
Bird Walk at Florida Lake, May 21
Event - Posted - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Florida Lake, owned by the Town of Freeport, includes a lake, surrounding wetlands and forested habitat. May 21, 7–9 am. Maine Audubon members $5, non-members $8. |
Water management class for foresters, May 21
Event - Posted - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District, the Maine Forest Service and Kennebec Estuary Land Trust are partnering to offer a free workshop for anyone interested in learning best management practices for water management and protection at small- or largescale timber harvests. At the Bath City Hall auditorium, May 21, 8 am - 1 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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Island gardens - veggies among the deer and rocks | | By Kaitlin Webber - Island gardens aren't that different from what I'm used to - apart from the layer of seaweed I spread last fall and the mussel shells that inexplicably keep rising to the surface. I'm also not used to having to keep all plants in maximum-security-prison mode. I left the netted gate open late last August and returned to find a vacant brown pit and a few beets with raccoon tooth marks. | | 5/16/2013 11:00:00 PM |
Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on Your Rights |  By Ronnie Cummins - Reliable sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods. | | 5/16/2013 11:00:00 PM |
Organic industry clout grows with consumer demand | | By Mary Clare Jalonick (AP): Washington - The organic food industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states. But that isn't going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on a sweeping farm bill that has for decades propped up traditional crops and largely ignored organics. | | 5/16/2013 11:00:00 PM |
Old Orchard Beach butter maker faces loss of license | | By Jessica Hall - The Old Orchard Beach Town Council on Tuesday will consider revoking the business license of Kate's Homemade Butter, which has operated as a home-based business in the town since 1981. Kate's operates in about 1,000 square feet of space in a garage of an Old Orchard Beach home. The company has been building a 17,600-square-foot facility in Arundel, but that relocation has been slowed by past construction problems. | | 5/16/2013 11:00:00 PM |
Organic Valley ‘planning for a rebuild’ after fire | | By Allison Geyer - Displaced Organic Valley employees gathered outside a makeshift command post at the La Farge Community Temple on Wednesday afternoon, anxious to learn when - and how - they could get back to work. | | 5/15/2013 11:00:00 PM |
Diplomatic cables reveal aggressive GM lobbying by US officials | | By Suzanne Goldenberg - American diplomats lobbied aggressively overseas to promote genetically modified (GM) food crops such as soy beans, an analysis of official cable traffic revealed on Tuesday. The review of more than 900 diplomatic cables by the campaign group Food and Water Watch showed a carefully crafted campaign to break down resistance to GM products in Europe and other countries, and so help promote the bottom line of big American agricultural businesses. | | 5/14/2013 11:00:00 PM |
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A Home Run for Maine Alewives | |
BENTON – Alewives are on pace for a record run in Benton, whose residents will celebrate their rel... | | 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM |
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