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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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New uncertainty arises over Maine's nuclear waste
Associated Press - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
State officials say the Obama administration’s plan to cut funding for a proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada raises questions about the future of spent radioactive fuel being stored next to the former Maine Yankee plant. |
MaCKRO interested in attracting young and new paddlers
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
As president of the Maine Canoe & Kayak Racing Organization, Jeff Owen is looking for ways to encourage children to take the same step he and many of his fellow paddlers did, whether their parents paddle or not. |
Herring fishery gets break on fixed-gear days
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Maine’s lobster industry, which depends largely on fresh herring for bait, recently may have gotten a small break on its supply of the fish this year. |
State dairy farms seek organic options
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Several farm organizations are working feverishly to find options for 30 Maine organic dairy farmers who either lost their H.P. Hood milk contracts or were asked last month to cut back production. |
Maine Audubon to reorganize, lay off employee
Associated Press - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Maine Audubon announced Tuesday that 12 jobs will be eliminated by September from its pool of 60 full-time, part-time and seasonal positions. |
Irving forest lands for sale
Other - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
CBC Radio One - A huge chunk of Nova Scotia is for sale. J.D. Irving Ltd is trying to sell 69,000 hectares. Some people are worried private development will mean the public will no longer have access to the land. Jym St. Pierre knows the risks. He's with RESTORE: The North Woods, a group that's been fighting the largest land development ever proposed in the history of the State of Maine. |
Yucca Mountain Decision Raises Nuclear Storage Questions
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Radioactive waste will remain on the Maine Yankee Nuclear site longer than expected following the decision by the Obama Administration to shelve the long-considered Yucca Mountain site for nuclear waste. |
The Puffin Prof
Other - Monday, March 09, 2009
Audubon, Mar-Apr 2009 - Sue Schubel has been championing Atlantic birdlife for more than two decades as a field researcher and outreach educator for Audubon’s Project Puffin—a program that has reintroduced a population of Atlantic puffins to its original nesting islands in Maine. |
Opinion: Pool cues
Mainebiz - Monday, March 09, 2009
What if we decided that we were going to use Brunswick Naval Air Station as a new energy center? From a ready-made facility in Brunswick, Maine, we could focus on energy efficiency and innovation. |
"Hero of The Planet" visits Bar Harbor
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Monday, March 09, 2009
Irwin Gratz interviews Soren Hermansen who coordinated work to make his island community of Samso carbon-free. |
Lawmakers to Tout Land Conservation Program
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Monday, March 09, 2009
A group of lawmakers is preparing to speak out in support of legislation to replenish the so-called Land for Maine's Future program. |
2008 deer harvest lowest in decades
Associated Press - Monday, March 09, 2009
After a long winter with record-setting snow packs, Maine 2008 deer harvest was the lowest in decades. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says deer yarded up on average for 140 days, compared to the normal 84 days. |
Letters: Climate change dispute continues
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 09, 2009
As in his previous campaigns to regulate forestry, Jonathan Carter is willing to resort to psuedo-science and scare tactics to promote his agenda. |
UMA forum to focus on alternative energy
Morning Sentinel - Monday, March 09, 2009
Soren Hermansen, named a Time magazine environmental hero in 2008, will give a keynote address during a day-long event at the University of Maine at Augusta on Thursday focused on alternative energy. |
Opinion: Dual accountability makes sense for turnpike authority
Kennebec Journal - Monday, March 09, 2009
This combination of public and private scrutiny has enabled Maine to benefit from a safe, modern, well-maintained and efficiently managed turnpike that requires exactly zero dollars of state or federal funding from taxpayers. |
Some state offices may burn gas
Kennebec Journal - Monday, March 09, 2009
The switch from oil to a cleaner alternative – possibly natural gas – would save the state as much as $500,000 over 10 years. |
Critics target tradition of trapping
Associated Press - Monday, March 09, 2009
Daryl DeJoy of the Wildlife Alliance of Maine, which seeks to ban trapping to protect lynx, maintains that trapping is unnecessary. "We shouldn't be killing for fun, for recreation," he said. Trapping advocates say animal rights groups base their anti-trapping stance on emotion, ignoring the emergence of more humane trapping methods. |
L.L. Bean sales fall, layoffs to come
Associated Press - Monday, March 09, 2009
L.L. Bean says some layoffs will be necessary after annual revenue dropped for only the third time since 1960. Despite the grim outlook, Bean announced a $330 bonus for all 5,000 employees. |
Editorial: Hunting for Funding
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 09, 2009
The best way to ensure that DIF&W is not viewed as an agency that caters to sportsmen and fishermen is to fund more of its operations from the General Fund. However, sportsmen must accept that their voice will be diminished. |
Sedgwick residents decline tower moratorium
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 09, 2009
Residents voted at their annual town meeting Saturday to turn down a moratorium on telecommunications towers, antennas and wind turbines in excess of 50 feet. |
Maine governor to visit mill slated for shutdown
Associated Press - Monday, March 09, 2009
Montreal-based Domtar, the largest employer in Washington County, announced last week that its mill will shut down May 5, putting 300 people out of work. Gov. Baldacci has asked a paper industry expert from his office to explore ways to keep the mill open. |
Maine land program fights for survival
Other - Monday, March 09, 2009
NECN.com - Maine depends on its working farms, forest and waterfront. But many of those special places wouldn't have survived without help from the "Land for Maine's future program." Now the program is fighting for its own survival. |
Maine's Land Debate Starting
Kennebec Journal - Sunday, March 08, 2009
A coalition of more than 200 groups will push this week for legislative support for bills to borrow money for the Land for Maine's Future Program. And while Gov. John Baldacci included $18 million for the program in his bond package, program supporters say they will lobby for more. |
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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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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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