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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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Opinion: Support Clean Water Restoration Act
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 01, 2010
Although our coasts and waterways provide us with so much, polluters continue to dump directly into our waterways and streams. In 2007, industrial facilities dumped more than 3.3 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Maine’s waterways. The Clean Water Restoration Act would not impose any new regulatory requirements. It would simply restore the law. |
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Letter: Ban was last resort
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 01, 2010
The BDN editorial, “Wind Ban Wrong,” was a decent analysis of the flawed wind turbine siting process. The solution, however, is not to continue this flawed permitting process. Wind turbines are being placed too close to homes in once quiet rural settings and the contrast is deafening. |
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Agriculture fair brings customers to farmers
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 01, 2010
It was sponsored by the Maine Council of Churches and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association sponsored a dozen fairs around the state Sunday afternoon to connect people with farmers in their communities. |
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Maine to develop environmental literacy program
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 01, 2010
A new agreement among Maine agencies and environmental education groups is set to help students graduate from high school as environmentally literate citizens. The Maine Department of Education is overseeing development of an Environmental Literacy Plan for the state’s K-12 public schools. It will help Maine compete for environmental education grants. The department is drafting the plan with help from Maine Audubon, the Maine Environmental Education Association and the Maine Department of Conservation’s Maine Forest Service. |
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Hooking up with farms
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 01, 2010
Think of it as speed dating for vegetables. That's one description Adrienne Lee of New Beat Farm in Jefferson heard for the community-supported agriculture fairs held around Maine on Sunday. |
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Off-Season, Online
Down East - Monday, March 01, 2010
Increasingly in the twenty-first century, however, Maine shop owners, having discovered that it never snows on the Internet, are finding ways to squeeze a little extra revenue from their seasonal businesses by setting up virtual storefronts that take advantage of digital traffic long after the last tourist has left Vacationland. |
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Opinions: Cap-and-Trade
Bangor Metro - Monday, March 01, 2010
Maine was one of 10 states to create the first cap-and-trade system in the country, hoping to influence national policy. Now that the U.S. Senate has proposed a nationwide cap-and-trade plan, it’s a good time to look back on what Maine has learned over the past year and weigh the options. |
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Letter: Noisy Turbines
Down East - Monday, March 01, 2010
We have the misfortune of living within a half mile of the wind turbines on Vinalhaven, the subject of your December “Talk of Maine” article. |
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A Sad Case of Abuse of the Endangered Species Act
Maine Sportsman - Monday, March 01, 2010
March 2010 issue [not online]. |
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Opinion: Islands can help fight global warming
The Working Waterfront - Sunday, February 28, 2010
It is tempting in Maine, founded on stable granite rather than a fragile atoll, to presume concerns of rising seas are remote. But the rapid change means the past is an inadequate guide.
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GE looks to build wind turbines in Britain
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
General Electric is considering building wind-energy turbines in Britain as the country prepares to spend $120 billion boosting its offshore wind capacity. ''When you deliver machines of the size and scale of these units you need to be close to where these wind farms are located." |
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Investment in U.S. clean energy stalls
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
The political stalemate in the United States stands in sharp contrast with the situation in other countries that are major competitors now and into the foreseeable future -- especially China and the European Union. In these countries, investment is booming in the development and production of low-carbon-emission energy technology such as wind and solar power and improved electric power grids. |
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Letter: Rush to wind power
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, February 28, 2010
Gov. John Baldacci’s task force has rushed plans through the Legislature to meet his power generation goals to allow companies to erect about 1,700 windmills on about 340 miles of Maine’s mountaintops. Those 400-foot-high turbines will be set on huge holes blasted in 15,000-40,000 acres of unspoiled forests. Where are the tree-huggers and the wildlife activists on this issue? |
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Letter: Sensible clean energy future
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, February 28, 2010
J. Dwight seemed a reasonable man, so I was surprised at his Perspective column in the Sun Journal Feb. 17. Offering a series of false assertions about wind power, he neglects mentioning its indisputable benefits, nor the overwhelming threat of climate change. |
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Opinion: Delve into a clever kingdom
Maine Outdoor Journal - Sunday, February 28, 2010
Recently, I bought Bernd Heinrich's ''Winter World," a wonderful nature book by one of the world's more prolific and entertaining naturalists. He owns a cabin west of Farmington. Here in Maine, Heinrich spends time with meticulous, scientific studies of our fauna and flora. |
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Editorial: Better science necessary to protect fish stocks
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
It's easy for the industry to blame the regulators for the closure of the sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor. However, there is a case to be made that the problem is not over-regulation but under-regulation. Preserving the fish stocks and the jobs that depend on them is the best way to avoid more tragic losses like the Prospect Harbor closure from shutting down what's left of one of Maine's most important industries. |
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Letter: Fishing permit banks trying to address severe problem
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
While there are 3,000 fishermen along the eastern Maine coast between Penobscot Bay and Canada, none of those fishermen is currently catching groundfish. There are two reasons for this. First, the fish disappeared inshore 15 years ago in eastern Maine. Second, federal fisheries managers just allocated future fishing rights based on how many fish fishermen caught starting 15 years ago -- when no one was catching fish in eastern Maine. |
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Letters: Pull trigger on guns in Acadia?
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
I do not want to see open carry in Acadia or on the Appalachian Trail. However, I am in favor of allowing concealed carry of personal firearms for citizens who have permits....Whatever the rationale, it would change the experience of visiting a national park in Maine; it has nothing to do with hunting, which always has been banned in Acadia; and it really doesn't appeal to many members of the NRA or SAM who don't care about the swagger of carrying handguns in public. |
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Opinion: Wind project comes at great cost
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
It is time to take a step back from industrial mountaintop wind power and to develop an energy policy that is not driven by the profits to be made from federal subsidies. After this mountaintop gold rush has played out, Mainers will be left with a despoiled landscape and the magic of the mountains will be gone forever. |
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Surf, tides may shape future of beloved beach
Portland Press Herald - Sunday, February 28, 2010
The shifting Morse River has eaten away sand dunes to within 25 yards of the bath house and septic system at Popham Beach State Park. This weekend, an unusual trifecta of ocean surf and tides could solve the decades-old erosion. A tidal surge and a pounding surf, followed by astronomical high tides, may be enough to recut the original river channel, which will result in a visibly enlarged beachfront. |
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Greenhouse project promotes self-sufficiency
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Greenhouse Project already has built several small greenhouses, including one at the Brooksville Elementary School, which has been growing vegetables throughout the winter months. The hope of founders Tom Adamo of Penobscot and Tony Ferrara, is to encourage more people to grow their own food. |
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Future engineers check out wind, electricity at annual expo
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
1,000 or so students who visited the more than 60 exhibits at the 12th annual Engineering Expo at the University of Maine. The Advanced Structures and Composites Center helped attendees put together model wind turbine platforms. |
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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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