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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation news stories and events. Since the start of 2009, I have posted more than 6,000 news stories and announcements. 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 my attention a few days after they are published. Note: I will be away Aug 29 - Sep 6, 2010, and unable to post articles during that time. ~ Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE: The North Woods |
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America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Sep 2
Action Alert - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Representatives of federal agencies are traveling the country to listen to ideas for conserving our lands and waters and reconnecting Americans to the outdoors. The AGO road show will be in Maine on Sep 2 at 3-6 p.m. at the Bangor Civic Center. Don’t miss this chance to speak for the need to expand public lands in Maine. |
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Viles Arboretum seeks volunteers
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Viles Arboretum in Augusta is seeking volunteers to help teach environmental education programs to student, adult and family audiences all year long. Training and support will be provided by the arboretum’s new program director, Mark DesMeules. |
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Landscaping For Wildlife, Sep 4
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Learn about the wide selection of native shrubs, small trees and other plants that are hardy and attractive, while providing food and shelter for our birds and wildlife. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, Sep 4, 11 a.m. |
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Oh, Ranger! Story Tour, Sep 2-6
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Visitors to Acadia National Park are invited to share their experiences with American Park Network representatives, who will be in Bar Harbor as part of the Oh, Ranger! Story Tour from Sep 2 to 6. A team will record stories of visitors' experiences at Acadia. The program is part of a national initiative to collect stories to showcase the breadth and depth of America's parks as the National Park System approaches its 100th anniversary in 2016. |
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Healthy crops topic of UM gardening forum, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Gardeners of every ilk will get the chance to learn about maintaining healthy crops during a presentation by a University of Maine Cooperative Extension researcher at the UM Rogers Farm in Stillwater on Tuesday, Aug 31 at 6 p.m. |
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Internet Trail Site for Franklin County
Announcement - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
This new website offers information on 15 mountain biking, hiking, walking, cross-country skiing, and snow shoeing trails in Western Maine. More will be added. |
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Schoodic: Where Sea meets Land, Aug 28 & 29
Announcement - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
This film is about the communities of Gouldsboro, Prospect Harbor, Corea and Winter Harbor, Maine. Maine Public TV, Aug 28 at 11:30 am and Aug 29 at 11:30 pm. |
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Open Garden Days, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The public is invited to join the Belfast Garden Club's Open Garden Days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at the Biebel Garden, 242 Fisher Road, Monroe. Visitors will discover a large organic experimental and eclectic vegetable and flower garden with soil that never needs to be plowed or rototilled due to its rich start as a "lasagna-method" garden. |
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Walks, talk focus on history of St. George River canals
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Georges River Land Trust and Montpelier: General Henry Knox Museum are co-sponsoring three free events focused on the history of the canals along the St. George River in Warren and Searsmont. On Monday, Aug 30, two guided walks will be held. Knox's efforts in constructing the canal will be the subject of the third event, an evening lecture by Mendoza at Montpelier on Sep 1 at 7 p.m. |
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Maine Woodsman Day, Aug 28
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
See demonstrations of wildlife carving, including with chainsaws, and hatchet-throwing. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, August 28, 11 a.m. |
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Mushroom talk at Belfast library, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
On Aug 31 at 6:30 p.m., Belfast Free Library will host a talk titled "Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada" by David Spahr.
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Palermo Preserve walk, Aug 26
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
Professional forester and lands director for the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, Tish Carr will lead a nature walk at 10 a.m. on Aug 26 around the Palermo Preserve. |
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Astronomer illuminates concerns about dimming starshine, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 19, 2010
If the stars don't look as bright as they did when we were children, it might not be that stars have lost their sparkle. It could be that we have lost our night. On Friday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m., aerospace engineer and astronomer Peter Lord will appear at the Oceanview Grange south of Tenants Harbor. He will use satellite images to illustrate the amazing effect of night lighting around the earth. |
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NJ woman completes solo kayak odyssey
Bangor Daily News - Monday, August 16, 2010
Cathy Mumford was all smiles as she walked off the St. John River in Fort Kent on Monday, 58 days after starting the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in Old Forge, N.Y. Mumford became the first woman to solo the 740-mile canoe route through New York, Vermont, Canada and Maine. |
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Letter: Maine needs wind farm development
Other - Monday, August 16, 2010
Forecaster - If we are to truly save Maine's wild places we need to slow global warming. Maine can be a leader in wind farm development. The Maine legislature was unanimous in its support for this legislation. It is the duty of LURC officials to follow this law to the letter and support wind farm development. |
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Northeast officials discuss energy future, economy
Morning Sentinel - Monday, August 16, 2010
Development of a green economy is in its infancy now, similar to where information technology was more than 40 years ago, according to Charles Colgan, professor of public policy and management at the University of Southern Maine. “Only by making oil more expensive will we unleash the market forces,” Colgan said at the start of a three-day conference of the Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference. |
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Penobscot River Restoration Leaps Ahead
Other - Monday, August 16, 2010
The Penobscot River Restoration Project’s large-scale effort to open up 100 percent of historic habitat for sturgeon, striped bass, tomcod, and rainbow smelt on the river, and improve access to nearly 1,000 miles of habitat for American shad, Atlantic salmon, and four other species, is leaping forward. |
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Power grid chief to discuss wind power in Maine
Associated Press - Monday, August 16, 2010
The top official from New England's power grid operator is coming to Maine to discuss the opportunity — and challenges — presented by wind power. Gordon van Welie, president and CEO of ISO New England Inc., will join other New England experts discussing renewable energy development on Monday in Portland. |
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Georges River Land Trust awarded $50,000 in grants
Herald Gazette - Monday, August 16, 2010
The Maine Community Foundation recently awarded the Georges River Land Trust two grants totaling $50,000 through its Ram Island Conservation Fund. The first award is a $25,000 matching grant for the recent installment purchase of the Paulsen Farm easement. The second matching grant of $25,000 is for building a permanent endowment to fund GRLT programs. |
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Let's Move Outside: More action, new rewards for junior rangers
Bar Harbor Times - Monday, August 16, 2010
Acadia National Park is now one of 36 national parks that offers Let's Move Outside Junior Ranger programs. Let's Move Outside, a program of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, provides tools and information to parents to make it easy to enjoy the outdoors and be active and healthy. |
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Friends Groups Team Up for Island Cleanup
Ellsworth American - Monday, August 16, 2010
On July 24, fifteen volunteers from Friends of Acadia and Friends of Blue Hill Bay hauled over 10 garbage bags of trash weighing approximately 200 pounds off the eastern coast of Long Island in Blue Hill Bay. Long Island has several conservation easements on the eastern shore managed by Acadia National Park. |
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Grant Awarded for Hatchery Trail Work
Ellsworth American - Monday, August 16, 2010
The Friends of Green Lake National Fish Hatchery recently received a $1,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation to support the 3.2-kilometer Ed Hastings Memorial Trail on the 130 acres of federal property located at the Green Lake National Fish Hatchery. |
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Kennebec Land Trust collects conservation histories
Capital Weekly - Monday, August 16, 2010
The Kennebec Land Trust has announced the release of "Between Person and Place: Conservation Histories from the Kennebec Land Trust." The book features essays and photographs that capture stories behind KLT’s conservation lands. |
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Spotlight shines on Acadia and Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor Times - Monday, August 16, 2010
Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island are in something of a media ascendancy this summer. The park and the island have recently been featured nationally and internationally through hundreds of print, broadcast and internet outlets. |
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The Federal Policy Landscape Is Now More Favorable to Wind Energy than at Any Other Time in the Past Decade
Other - Sunday, August 15, 2010
There are many federal policy incentives supporting the expansion of the wind power in the U.S. For example, as of mid-July 2010, wind projects had received 88% of the more than $4.78 billion in cash grants awarded during the previous year under Section 1603 of the Recovery Act. The Recovery Act also provides a 30% tax credit for investments in new clean energy manufacturing facilities. In January 2010, manufacturing projects received credit allocations totaling $2.3 billion, with the wind energy sector capturing more than 10% of this total. The Obama administration is seeking to extend the program for another year, with an additional $5 billion. |
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Energy-efficiency funds going unspent
Associated Press - Sunday, August 15, 2010
A government audit released Friday found that most of the money authorized for one of the energy efficiency programs in last year's stimulus plan is going unspent. According to the report by the Energy Department's inspector general, grant recipients have spent just 8.4 percent of the $3.2 billion authorized to help state and local governments become more energy efficient. |
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States struggle to curb pollution by cruise ships
Other - Sunday, August 15, 2010
The EPA estimates passengers aboard a typical cruise ship will generate in a single day: 21,000 gallons of sewage; one ton of garbage; 170,000 gallons of wastewater from sinks, showers and laundry; more than 25 pounds of batteries, fluorescent lights, medical wastes and expired chemicals; up to 6,400 gallons of oily bilge water from engines; four plastic bottles per passenger. “The maritime business is sort of like the last under-regulated bastion of the corporate world.” |
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Letter: View promotion with skepticism
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
I agree with Paul Williamson’s call for a conversation centered on reasonable discussion and supportive evidence with regard to industrial wind power development on Maine’s mountaintops. Unfortunately, he adds neither. The “recent report from the European Union,” to which Williamson alludes, is, in fact, the work of European wind industry trade groups, much like his own. |
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Pest experts promote precautions against invasive beetles
Capital Weekly - Sunday, August 15, 2010
“We are trying to make visitors aware that it is not only unwise, but now also illegal, to bring firewood from home when you come to Maine," said state entomologist Dave Struble. He added it's important for the public to help researchers and foresters monitor insect-related damage to trees by reporting evidence of the pests. |
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Opinion: Drop Upper Andro a line
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
"The Upper Andro" is shorthand for the 26-mile section of the Androscoggin River that lies between the Maine-New Hampshire border and Rumford. For a number of years now, a group called the Upper Andro Anglers Alliance has dedicated itself to restoring and promoting this remarkable stretch of riverine water. |
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New Oquossoc sporting heritage museum enthralls hundreds
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
With the grand openings Saturday of a million-dollar museum, this tiny western Maine village will never be the same. When the new Rangeley Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum opened at 10 a.m., several hundred people converged on the area beside Route 17 and continued to arrive for a few hours afterward, Rangeley Historical Society President Don Palmer said. |
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Expectations rising — Progress on the Androscoggin River
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tons of pollution are still being dumped into the Androscoggin River every day. But compared to five years ago, the water quality is improving, officials at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection say. With a few exceptions, for the first time in decades the state is cautiously optimistic that the Androscoggin will meet its legal water-quality classification -- Class C, the lowest water classification allowed by the federal Clean Water Act -- this year. |
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DEP: Municipalities cutting sewage pollution in river
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
One reason the Androscoggin River does not meet Class C water-quality standards is because of sewage overflow from Lewiston and Auburn. According to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the cities are spending a lot of money to correct the problem. |
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Letter: Senators try to sell wind power
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
The cost of wind power, if and when developed, is estimated by some to be 300 to 400 percent higher than oil. Are Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins thinking that to "sell" wind power to their constituents, they need to make us believe that gas, oil and electricity are almost as expensive as wind power? |
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Opinion: Assertions against wind power have no basis
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
In a recent op-ed, Jonathan Carter charged wind advocates of “distortions and misrepresentations” in making the case for wind power, but then went on to make a series of assertions that defy logic and have no basis in fact. |
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Scenic Byway will preserve 'Maine' view
Lewiston Sun Journal - Sunday, August 15, 2010
Rebecca Kurtz, Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway coordinator, said Route 17 will be pushed 10 to 15 feet east into the woods from its current location at the overlook. A mile of new road will be built higher than the current road, which will be made into the overlook turnout, complete with a picnic area and parking. |
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Natural Resources Council of Maine
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You Can Protect Acadia | | Ever compare Acadia National Park to a piece of Swiss cheese? You should.Acadia is a majestic place ... | | 9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM |
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