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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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Aldermere Farm announces new Teen Ag Crew work program
Herald Gazette - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Aldermere Farm, a program of Maine Coast Heritage Trust, will start a new work program for local youth ages 14 to 18. Aldermere will hire Teen Ag Crew members to grow crops and small livestock products for donation to local food pantries. |
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Opinion: Trash!
Capital Weekly - Thursday, March 04, 2010
We all contribute to the amazing amount of material thrown out each day. What to do? Well, as one who is heading strongly toward 90 years of life, my very first suggestion would be – stop buying. |
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Efficiency Maine grants
Capital Weekly - Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Maine Public Utilities Commission’s Efficiency Maine program has announced the award of $635,000 for energy efficiency projects at 19 commercial, municipal and nonprofit facilities across Maine. |
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Opinion: Measures of Growth Report reflect stubborn facts of the Maine economy
Capital Weekly - Thursday, March 04, 2010
One important measure that received neither a star nor a flag was the cost of doing business in Maine. Our state ranked 8th highest (worst) in the nation in 2007 which is a five-place improvement from its 3rd worst position in 1999 according to Moody's economy.com. That is relatively good news but it still requires that legislators support policies that will move that ranking toward the national average by 2015. |
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First Aquaculture Business Park in U.S. Proposed
Ellsworth American - Thursday, March 04, 2010
An April 6 public hearing has been tentatively set for what would be the first aquaculture business park in the United States. Maine Halibut Farms LLC would like to build a halibut farm on the former Navy Base in the village of Corea. |
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Opinion: Resolution would benefit big polluters
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 04, 2010
A recent Senate resolution introduced by Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, threatens to undo some of the key provisions of the Clean Air Act. Sens. Snowe and Collins recognize the importance of the act in protecting human health and environmental quality for all Americans from the harmful effects of carbon dioxide and other atmospheric pollutants. As pressure builds from industry special interests, they need to remind their colleagues in Congress of the scientific underpinnings of the act and preserve its regulatory authority for the benefit of us all. |
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Letter: Wildlife management
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 04, 2010
I am very concerned with the lack of acknowledgment in regards to the effect of the deer herd’s decline on our local economies. Millions of dollars in revenues have vanished the past several years along with our deer. That this fact seems to be of no importance to our Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the governor is outrageous. |
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Shrimp season, market strong
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 04, 2010
In 2008, northern shrimp accounted for only 4 percent of all the commercial fish species landed in Maine and for only 1 percent of the overall value of those landings. But by most accounts, the fishermen who have gone out for shrimp during the 2010 season, which runs through May 29, have been catching more than they did and getting a better price in 2009’s season. |
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DOT chief backs $25M rail acquisition bond
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Any competitive edge enjoyed by the state's forest products industry would be seriously compromised if 241 miles of northern Maine railroad track are abandoned, the state’s top transportation official said Wednesday. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railroad Ltd. sought federal approval last month to abandon the tracks, most of which run from Madawaska to Millinocket, by summer due to mounting debts. |
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Manchester greenhouse gets efficiency funds
Kennebec Journal - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Longfellow’s Greenhouses was awarded $30,000 from the Maine Public Utilities Commission for energy efficiency projects. It is one of 19 Maine companies or organizations to share $635,000 awarded through the PUC’s Efficiency Maine program, with federal stimulus funds. |
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Vets group pushes for clean energy legislation
Associated Press - Thursday, March 04, 2010
A veterans group is spending nearly $30,000 in Maine for television ads urging Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to support clean energy legislation. |
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Stoddard selected Efficiency Maine Trust executive director
Capital Weekly - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Michael Stoddard was named executive director of the Efficiency Maine Trust. The trust will administer funds to provide incentives on energy-efficiency measures, such as compact fluorescent lights, insulation, and variable speed drives, as well as alternative energy technologies such as solar water heaters. Stoddard has managed energy policy programs in Maine and Eastern Canada for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy group specializing in energy and climate change policies, since 2000. |
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Efficiency Maine Trust hires executive director
Portland Press Herald - Thursday, March 04, 2010
A longtime advocate for energy efficiency has been named the head of a Maine organization that promotes the efficient use of energy and helps residents and businesses reduce energy costs. Michael Stoddard becomes executive director of Efficiency Maine Trust on March 22. He was previously with Environment Northeast, a nonprofit advocacy and research group that specializes in energy and climate change policies. |
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Four Democratic senators aim to halt stimulus wind project
Washington Post - Thursday, March 04, 2010
A group of Democratic senators called Wednesday for the government to halt a federal stimulus program aimed at building wind farms and other clean-energy projects, arguing that too much of the money spent so far has gone to create jobs overseas. |
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Creating an oyster legacy
Portland Phoenix - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
"We have some of the best oysters, and the best micro-aquaculture, in the world and the way the oysters are done in Maine, because the quality of the water and the water temperature is ideal," says Lee Skawinski, the executive chef and co-owner of Vignola and Cinque Terre. I went in search of the origins of these world-class tastes. As John Hennessey, co-owner of Winter Point Oysters, drove me to a cove in West Bath, he took special care to note the significance of the family land. |
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Proposed Bluefin Tuna Listing Raises Concerns in Maine
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Sen. Olympia Snowe and Rep. Chellie Pingree say they are outraged by the Obama Administration's move to restrict export of Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is commercially fished in Maine. Environmental groups and regulators around the world are concerned that the bluefin, a popular ingredient in sushi, is being overfished and is on the verge of collapse. But some question whether this latest move will truly help the species. |
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Local lobstermen see income drop sharply again
Republican Journal - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Knox County lobstermen saw their income plummet 18 percent last year. The amount of lobster landed across the state reached a record high but the price per pound paid to the harvesters continued to fall. |
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Island Approves Wind Power Study
Mount Desert Islander - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Swans Island residents voted to allocate $9,000, to be matched by $40,000 from the Island Institute in Rockland, to study the viability of a wind turbine to generate electricity and reduce electricity rates on the island. |
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Tending the trust
Other - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
UMaine Today - It’s a big job carrying out the wishes of former Maine Gov. Percival P. Baxter, who donated more than 200,000 acres of Maine wilderness with the stipulation that they be held in perpetuity. But it also doesn’t get any better, says UMaine alumna Carol Redelsheimer. Baxter gave about 30,000 acres where the scientific principles of forest management were to be put into practice. |
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Wind turbine setback ordinance draws fire
Lewiston Sun Journal - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Each of the three Buckfield selectmen questioned the wisdom of the Planning Board's recommended setback for wind turbines in their ordinance. |
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Ask W.A.M.
WERU Radio - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Q: “Who makes wildlife management decisions in Maine? Who is on the Advisory Board of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife? Who picks its members? What are the qualifications? Are there any women on it? |
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DIF&W, landowners endorse deer wintering guidelines
Capital Weekly - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Maine Forest Products Council, and Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine have endorsed a set of Deer Wintering Area Management Guidelines aimed at assisting forest landowners to enhance the quality of deer wintering area on their properties. |
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Letter: Rather ‘face a bear in the woods’ than man with gun
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
I’m writing to encourage legislators to override the new federal law allowing firearms in national parks. I have spent hundreds of lovely days in our national park (Acadia) and have never felt threatened. |
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Mitchell, Pingree unveil jobs bond
Republican Journal - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Legislative and business leaders stood tall behind Senate President Elizabeth Mitchell and Speaker of the House Hannah Pingree on March 2, when they unveiled the details of a jobs bond at the Statehouse. Several professionals said water and waste facilities were long overdue for improvements. The Maine Heritage Policy Center said bond proposals such as this are "burying Maine under a mountain of debt." |
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$99 million 'jobs bond' meets GOP resistance
Kennebec Journal - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Maine Democratic leaders unveiled a new plan Tuesday to borrow $99 million to pay for road and bridge work, water and sewer repairs, energy efficiency grants for schools, and railroad improvements, including $47.5 million for highway reconstruction projects; $20 million to purchase the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway; $5 million for passenger rail service in the Lewiston-Auburn area; $20 million in competitive grants to improve energy efficiency in schools; and $6.7 million for waste-water and drinking water upgrades. |
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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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