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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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Letter: Help save Acadia
Lewiston Sun Journal - Saturday, February 27, 2010
What is the need for looser gun regulations in Acadia? "Look Mom, there's Old Faithful. Look Dad, there's a Smith and Wesson." Will there now be calls for rifles on Katahdin? |
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Super Bowl of oil-spill drills coming here
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, February 27, 2010
An unusual scene is set to unfold off the Eastern Promenade next month, involving hovering helicopters, Coast Guard boats and Maine Marine Patrol vessels. The activity will be part of a major oil-spill response drill on March 24, when as many as 1,000 emergency workers will descend on Portland. |
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Port of Eastport set to spend $6.5M in expansion
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
With the infusion of $4.5 million in state transportation bonds and another $2 million in federal stimulus money, the port of Eastport is poised to diversify. Right now, the port’s only customer is Domtar, a paper mill in Baileyville that sends pulp all over the world. But soon there may be two new facilities in Washington County, one that would produce wood chips and a second that would manufacture wood pellets. |
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Acadia National Park official clarifies marine proposal
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
An Acadia official on Friday clarified where marine protected areas in the park would exist if any such areas were created within the park by the federal government. Earlier reports suggested that waters outside the existing park boundary on Mount Desert Island and Isle au Haut would be included in proposed marine protected areas, but David Manski, head of Acadia’s resource management division, said that is not the case. |
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Campobello park seeks to offset loss of visitors
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
There is no doubt the international park on this small island is a treasure shared by both Canada and the U.S. But park officials have noticed a marked downturn recently in the number of visitors crossing from the U.S. to the Canadian island to enjoy the park. When the U.S. implemented new border crossing requirements last year, visitors apparently thought crossing the border too difficult. |
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Letter: No conscience
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 27, 2010
What happened here in Millinocket, I didn’t want happening at Fraser Paper in Madawaska. Young people are leaving the area. Businesses are closing. Many concessions were given away here at our mill and what good did that do? Now you see the higher-ups getting big bonuses. Don’t these people have a conscience? |
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The Atlas of Global Conservation
Other - Friday, February 26, 2010
No one has ever tried to collect everything we know about nature on planet Earth — until now. On Earth Day 2010, The Nature Conservancy and University of California Press will publish The Atlas of Global Conservation, bringing together for the first time such information as where animal populations are concentrated, which species are in imminent danger of extinction, where forests are disappearing most rapidly, and where nature is thriving. |
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Calculating the value of carbon in trees
Other - Friday, February 26, 2010
Marketplace - Delegates at the global climate summit failed to figure out a way to stop the destruction of the world's forests. But some lawmakers think they have a solution, and it relies on financing from some of America's biggest polluters. |
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Wyoming wind tax, rules move through Legislature
Other - Friday, February 26, 2010
The Wyoming Senate voted Friday to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production, and committees in both legislative chambers advanced new regulations on the state's fledgling wind industry. |
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Opinion: 50 Simple Ways to Get Off
Other - Friday, February 26, 2010
Orion - What I want is for us to think like members of a serious resistance movement. That means a commitment to winning. For me, winning means living in a world with more wild salmon, more migratory songbirds, more amphibians, more large fish in the oceans, and for that matter oceans not being murdered. It means less dioxin in every mother’s breast milk. It means living in a world where there are fewer dams each year than the year before. More native forests. More wild wetlands. It means living in a world not being ravaged by the industrial economy. |
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Maine trailing N.H. in tapping Canadian power
Portland Press Herald - Friday, February 26, 2010
Maine shouldn't expect lower-cost, Canadian hydroelectricity to flow through the state via new transmission lines in the near future, a top Hydro-Quebec executive said Thursday. Hydro-Quebec plans to concentrate first on expanding its exports to New England with a line through New Hampshire. He did have advice, however, for how Maine can lower electricity prices: Diversify a fuel mix that's too heavy on natural gas, and build enough transmission to handle more wind and hydro generation. |
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Economic report gives Maine two gold stars, four red flags
Bar Harbor Times - Friday, February 26, 2010
The Maine Economic Growth Council has released its “Measures of Growth 2010” report Areas where Maine moved toward its benchmarks included conservation of lands and sustainable forest lands. |
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Coming up empty
Herald Gazette - Friday, February 26, 2010
In the Gulf of Maine, the contrast is striking. Crustaceans are plentiful and the lobstering industry is thriving, while groundfish stocks are at all-time lows and the fleets are on the verge of extinction. The effect of humans on marine resources -- from overfishing to policy making -- is undeniable and little understood. That's where economic anthropologist James Acheson comes in. He is taking a close look at where policies and practices in the groundfish industry may have gone wrong. |
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Farm Bureau hosts exchange on low-level military flights
Lewiston Sun Journal - Friday, February 26, 2010
Livestock owners question the liability if animals startled by low-flying military jets break through fencing and crash into traffic, the president of the Franklin County Farm Bureau said Thursday. And what about the impact on wild species of animals and birds, as well as the economic impact of an area that attracts tourists to the intrinsic beauty of the western mountains? |
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Opinion: Arms in Acadia? Well, isn't it part of the United States?
Portland Press Herald - Friday, February 26, 2010
The idea is that if you ban guns, you are somehow protecting people. We have had so many proofs that view is wrong -- from the 32 dead at gun-banning Virginia Tech to the 14 killed at Fort Hood (where privately owned guns were also banned) -- that you'd think people would be ashamed to make it any more. But they do. What protects people are people who are willing to protect themselves. |
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Acadia Park slows down marine proposal
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 26, 2010
The park’s advisory commission has recommended that Acadia National Park officials take more time to gather and share information about a proposed marine protected area in the waters off Mount Desert Island. By taking a more deliberate approach, the park might be able to reassure residents of surrounding towns that it does not intend to place any restrictions on existing marine activities that would be in the protected area. |
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Logger bills panned at hearing
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 26, 2010
Landowners and logging contractors from northern Maine packed a public hearing Thursday to testify against a pair of controversial bills arising from long-standing tensions over the use of Canadian workers in the Maine woods. One bill would significantly increase fines for violating laws intended to ensure that companies recruit Maine loggers before hiring Canadians. A second bill would prohibit landowners from participating in Maine’s Tree Growth program if they employ foreign loggers. |
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Weather aids moose hunters
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 26, 2010
The state awarded 3,015 moose permits in 2009, and 2,348 of those hunters — 77.8 percent — were successful. |
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Letter: Corporate greed
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 26, 2010
Nothing arouses righteous indignation more than seeing the plundering of Fraser Papers Inc. by the six top-level executives in the form of unwarrantable bonuses, while the company faces bankruptcy. This is nothing more than corporate greed at its worse. |
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Opposition grows to Marine Protected Area system
Bar Harbor Times - Friday, February 26, 2010
Tremont selectmen said they were opposed to the proposed designation of Acadia National Park’s intertidal zone as a Marine Protected Area mainly due to the potential ramifications for fishing rights. |
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Fraser Papers optimistic about Newco
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 26, 2010
With its emergence from bankruptcy protection imminent, Fraser Papers expects to launch its new company shortly and plans for it to be among the world’s best papermakers. Temporarily called Newco, the new company will emerge from the debris of Fraser with a strong balance sheet, modest debt, an already-profitable specialty papers mill in Madawaska. |
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Wind Power In Maine Part 2
WABI-TV5 - Thursday, February 25, 2010
Proponents of wind power say the economic benefits are vast and inarguable. But some people living near existing wind farms say the cost is too high. In addition to noise complaints, some think wind farms have an irreversible visual impact. |
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Smoke from home fuels tied to emphysema
Other - Thursday, February 25, 2010
People who burn wood or other "biofuels" for heat or cooking may have a heightened risk of emphysema and related lung conditions, a new study suggests. |
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Letter: Rubber worms are killing Maine fish
Kennebec Journal - Thursday, February 25, 2010
I took to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife samples of fish that we have caught in ponds and lakes throughout Central Maine that have rubber worms in their stomachs. I find it hard to believe that IF&W will not act as soon as possible on this problem. |
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Letter: Don’t want to go to Canada to see lynx, fish for char
Kennebec Journal - Thursday, February 25, 2010
I was disappointed to read where George Smith referred to the recent lynx listing as “ridiculous” because there are “so many lynx just to the north of us in Quebec.” For starters, the Endangered Species Act is a domestic, not an international, program. Using Smith’s logic, why are we wasting time and money trying to recover Maine’s deer herd, as they are plentiful just south of us? |
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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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