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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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Northeast to suffer most from sea rise
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 16, 2009
The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts. |
Working waterfront program awards $700,000 to 3 towns
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 16, 2009
The Vinalhaven Fishermen’s Co-op, the Friendship Lobster and Realty Co-op, and the Pine Point Municipal Pier in Scarborough received awards designed to help preserve Maine’s commercial fishing industry. The pilot program is a joint venture between the Maine Department of Marine Resources and the Land for Maine’s Future Program. |
Spring — and spending — in the air at sportsmen’s show
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 16, 2009
The annual Eastern Maine Sportsmen's Show is the Penobscot County Conservation Association's biggest moneymaker. All of the funds raised go toward sending local children to conservation camps and for scholarships for adults pursuing careers in the outdoors. |
Vinalhaven wind power project touted
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 16, 2009
“If this is successful, I think it’s just going to have a gigantic effect on the whole area,” said speaker George Baker, a summer resident of Frenchboro who has been instrumental in developing the $14 million Fox Islands wind project and is now the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC. |
Ecological Intelligence
Other - Monday, March 16, 2009
TIME - Ecological intelligence is ultimately about more than what we buy. It's also about our ability to accept that we live in an infinitely connected world with finite resources |
New Fishing Rules Proposed For Declining Stocks
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Monday, March 16, 2009
Government regulators are proposing a new set of fishing rules designed to protect and rebuild declining fish stocks in the North Atlantic. |
Opinion: Numbers tell whole deer story
Sun Journal - Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has finally released the deer harvest numbers for last fall. The news is not good. Tagging stations throughout the state registered 21,062 deer bagged by hunters. This represents a 27 percent decrease in deer harvest from the previous fall of 2007. |
Opinion: Going green can make some green
Sun Journal - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Let's build New England's first "green industry corridor" in the Androscoggin River valley with sustainable industries, utilizing natural resources in a responsible way, linked together in green business parks and each of those parks linked by a freight and passenger rail network.
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Editorial: Summers won't be the same if kayaks licensed
Kennebec Journal - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Some things just feel like they shouldn't happen in Maine. A proposal to require kayakers and canoeists to pay $19 a year for licenses so they can do something that's always been free falls squarely into this category. This would become another example of government over-reach.
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Hearts are in the highlands
Kennebec Journal - Sunday, March 15, 2009
The ultimate objective is to see Kennebec Highlands grow to between 10,000 and 11,000 acres. At that size the habitat could support Canadian lynx, bobcats, moose and various other animals and birds that need larger stretches of continuous protected land to survive. |
Opinion: Land bonds always needed
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Now is the time to be bold, not timid. Our economy is driven by Maine's breathtaking natural beauty. Opportunity knocks but once; let us keep the door open. Invest in Land for Maine's Future. |
2nd Maine town curbs water extraction
Associated Press - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Newfield has voted to ban large-scale water extraction. Shapleigh voted for a ban on water extraction two weeks ago. |
The Green Economy 2009
Other - Sunday, March 15, 2009
When we look back, 2009 will be viewed as a monumental year in terms of the economy. Critical to the green economy is alternative energy and the willingness of governments around the world to jump-start their economy by investing billions of dollars into these once scoffed at energies. |
Editorial: Cheers to a $20 "Rescue Card" for hikers
Sun Journal - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Legislation from Rep. Tom Saviello, an independent from Wilton, has broached this idea. It's a novel answer for an evergreen problem - rescuing unprepared or reckless people from the wilderness of Maine. |
Opinion: Campaign should focus on hatches
Morning Sentinel - Saturday, March 14, 2009
This state should attract traveling anglers to hit our major hatches. Tourists interested in fishing hatches spend big bucks. The opening week of the red-quill hatch in central Maine deserves the same attention as the opening day of deer season, duck opener and upland-bird kickoff. |
Opinion: Feeling superhuman, thanks to the conditions in March
Morning Sentinel - Saturday, March 14, 2009
We all should be impressed, and thankful, that we can walk on water, hold clouds in our hands, taste the lifeblood of trees and enjoy the overall wonder of frozen landscapes. Plus, those frozen landscapes help us appreciate the spring, which I'm told is right around the corner. |
Forums to explain land-use laws
Morning Sentinel - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Upcoming public forums in Skowhegan, Kingfield and Farmington will allow area residents to learn more about significant changes to Maine's land-development policy being proposed by the state's Department of Environmental Protection. |
City's forests get health care plan
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, March 14, 2009
The state's largest city is known for its urban landscape, but a few hundred feet from busy Stevens Avenue in Portland stand some of Maine's oldest white oaks and hemlocks, mainstays of a public forest network that covers about 300 city acres. |
Dirt alert: Test for lead, vegetable gardeners
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, March 14, 2009
It won't be long now before we're turning soil, planting seeds and watching the lettuce and peas sprout. For Samantha Langley-Turnbaugh, a soil scientist and professor at the University of Southern Maine, there's a real public-health risk to the spring ritual: lead poisoning. |
Opinion: The need for increases
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Proposed modest fee increases on fishing and hunting licenses are necessary for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to maintain its important fish and wildlife programs. |
Letter: Control blown away
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Alternative energy sources are needed to replace carbon-based fuels; however, I take issue with support of LD 199, which assumes that only DEP and LURC should have decide the future of industrial wind farms. Offshore wind farms make much more sense and are more efficient. |
Editorial: Governor’s Energy Agenda
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Gov. John Baldacci has unveiled an ambitious energy agenda for Maine, including improving the insulation of Maine’s residential buildings, creating a Maine Weatherization Corps of young people, building a better electric grid, and developing as much wind power in Maine as possible. Now, it is up to lawmakers and industry to show that it is achievable. |
Hope for state-record fish dries up
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Bill Maynard Jr. landed a massive lake trout at Moosehead that was officially 41 inches long and weighed 29.67 pounds. That fell a bit short of Hollis Grindle’s 1958 Beech Hill Pond behemoth, which weighed 31½ pounds. Maynard’s fish was, however, a Moosehead record. |
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Natural Resources Council
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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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Gardeners Association
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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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