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March 11, 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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Atkinson residents to weigh tree ordinance
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Residents will be asked whether they want to rescind a portion of the tree harvesting ordinance as recommended by the planning board. Under the present ordinance, anyone harvesting trees and removing the limbs must put the limbs back into the woods to decompose. The proposed change would remove that stipulation. |
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Snowmobiling season not over yet
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Warmer than average temperatures over the past several weeks have created conditions normally not seen until April, leaving some wondering whether the state’s economically important snowmobiling season is over for the year. “Absolutely not,” Matt Polstein, owner of Twin Pine Camps in Millinocket, said Tuesday. |
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Letter: Death of sardine plant
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The news of the closing of the Bumble Bee plant in Prospect Harbor is sad indeed. The only answer to save our country is for all of those elected in Washington to begin eliminating one by one the burdens of government on the people. |
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Officials consider options for cannery
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
As Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins met Tuesday with the head of Bumble Bee Foods, which owns the local sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor, state officials were considering whether a consent decree might be able to keep the plant operating beyond mid-April. |
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Five projects funded for Sea Grant research
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Five projects in Maine will receive a total of $500,000 from NOAA: a study of salt marsh changes; an evaluation of nine different lobster assessment methods; a study of how systems respond to dam removal at the species, community and ecosystem levels; an assessment of vulnerability and resilience in Maine fishing communities; and an examination of the location of human activities in Penobscot Bay to inform planning for marine reserves and wind power facilities. |
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Letter: Supports state registry
Times Record - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
A state registry program will prove to be a considerable revenue producer in this fiscally strapped state to provide some much-needed funds toward the management of the fisheries that is our heritage. |
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Letter: Keep the money in Maine
Times Record - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine endorses the concept of Maine running with the federal registry starting in 2011 with the extreme cost associated with it. I urge everyone to call, write and e-mail their legislators to vote in favor of passage of the bill establishing a Maine, fee-based saltwater registry to avoid paying $25 or more for the federal registry. |
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Catch shares discussion: Government giveaway?
Bar Harbor Times - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
As groundfishermen grapple with the implementation of sector management as one of the latest catch share programs to be established among the nation’s fisheries, the federal government is bringing the catch share concept to the forefront of the discussion about fishery management. |
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Editorial: The economics of transmission in New England
Other - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
ISO-NE, the non-profit that manages the New England electrical grid, has released a report requested by Maine Gov. John Baldacci on the economics of developing renewable energy. The costs and scale for new transmission development should be required reading by every electricity consumer and politician in New England. The ISO anticipates 4,320 new miles of transmission lines with midrange costs of $19 to $25 billion. It is impossible to imagine ratepayers would embrace the environmental, economic, and social costs of industrializing their rural areas with turbines and transmission. |
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Bill to Establish "Energy Corridors" Raises Concerns
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Maine lawmakers are taking up a bill that has major implications for relations with Canada, future electricity costs, alternative energy development and jobs for Maine workers. Critics are worried Hydro Quebec could take advantage of Maine's energy corridors by flooding southern New England with cheap power at a time when Maine is trying to develop its own wind and tidal projects. |
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Large red tide expected for 2010
Bar Harbor Times - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
An extremely large red tide bloom is expected to hit the Gulf of Maine this year. The relevant question for the New England shellfish industry will be whether the bloom sits offshore or heads inshore. |
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Opinion: Life's a beach
Capital Weekly - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The state of Maine has had numerous cases go to the state Supreme Court, which ruled the land on the ocean between the high-water mark and the low-water mark belongs to the public and the public cannot be excluded. However, a recent Florida court case is now going to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision could have ramifications on landowners in Maine. |
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Additional 'green' courses endorsed at KVCC
Capital Weekly - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Kennebec Valley Community College is a step closer to becoming a hub of green energy and energy-efficiency education. The Maine State Housing Authority and Efficiency Maine Trust have jointly endorsed the college’s updated curriculum for its Weatherization Technician and Building Performance Institute Bridge courses. |
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Maine ground fishery gets $2M from feds
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Maine is set to receive $2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is releasing $10 million more to New England states to help fishermen transition to a new fisheries management system scheduled to begin May 1. |
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Opinion: Wind power has already created new jobs, revenues
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Critics argue wind energy does not benefit our state. On one hand they claim wind energy is not economically feasible, and then they complain that wind corporations are getting rich, which is clearly contradictory. In an attempt to scare people about wind energy, opponents cite adverse health effect studies which have absolutely no acceptance in the medical field in Maine. Providing wind energy will create many well-paying, diverse jobs. |
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Lincoln group files second appeal
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Not happy with how a Lincoln board and state court have stymied its efforts to challenge a proposed $130 million wind farm in the Lincoln area, the Friends of Lincoln Lakes is taking its case to the state’s highest court, the group’s attorney said Monday. |
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Record volume of lobster caught in Maine in ’09
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Despite the fact that the poor economy has kept the price of lobster relatively low for the past 18 months, reported lobster landings in Maine in 2009 were higher than they have ever been before. At nearly 75.6 million pounds, the estimate is 5.7 million pounds higher than the 69.9 million pounds caught by Maine lobstermen in 2008. |
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Foreign fishermen to ‘talk shop’ at forum
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum is set for this week. Seminars ranging from wind power to scallops have been scheduled at the Samoset Resort in Rockport for March 4-6. One new item is aimed at bringing an international perspective to the Maine lobster industry: an exchange that is expected to bring lobstermen from Tasmania, West Australia, Ireland, Puerto Rico and the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. |
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UMPI student researching search, rescue responsibility
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Most people who go outdoors consider search-and-rescue efforts to be a given, but the issue of who pays for such activities is much more complex, says Leah Finnemore. The Hartland native is conducting research and polling the public about who should pay for backcountry evacuations, a project she is doing through the Maine Policy Scholars Program. |
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The Epidemic of Posting in Maine
George Smith Blog - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Last year the legislature directed each of the state’s natural resource agencies to adopt a policy regarding entering private lands for nonemergency purposes. This is very important to private landowners and to state agency staff trying to collect data on everything from bird populations to vernal pools. And that makes it important to every one who recreates on private land and enjoys the resources we find there. |
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Opinion: Prime Time and Ramp Rates
Other - Monday, March 01, 2010
RenewablesBiz - Are renewable energies ready for prime time? The short answer: not yet. The best cost-benefit action so far has proved to be energy efficiency. |
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Opinion: Save the highland mountains from industrial wind
Lewiston Sun Journal - Monday, March 01, 2010
Maine, a state with one of the highest renewable energy portfolios, already produces more than enough energy. In fact, we export energy. If we allow the mountaintop wind gold rush to continue, after the rush has played out, Mainers will be left with the tailings of a despoiled landscape and the magic of the mountains gone forever. |
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Letters: Nuclear power: Has it lost its glow?
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 01, 2010
A resurgence of nuclear power generation in America could be the greatest possible simulative effect on our nation's economy....Let's hope for the sake of our planet that this door closes before it opens! |
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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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