Environment
From the community
State needs public involvement to control Emerald Ash Borer
Bangor Daily News on May 06, 2013, at 2:39 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — State officials expressed concern even as they took steps to implement a comprehensive, statewide survey effort and enlist public support in helping locate the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an invasive insect that destroys ash trees. This year’s survey has taken on greater urgency because the elusive insect ...
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Northeast Regional Ocean Planning Public Meetings
On May 23rd, from 4pm to 7pm, at the University of Southern Maine, Lee Room, Portland, ME representatives from the state and New England will host a public meeting to discuss draft regional ocean planning goals and associated potential actions. This is one in a series of public meetings being ...
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Septic Social
It’s National Drinking Water Week! This is a time that water districts invite the public to help celebrate the work that we do throughout the year. We take very seriously our mission to provide clean, safe drinking water for public health, and for fire protection. Lake Auburn-area residents are invited ...
Warming waters threaten fish stocks off New England, report says
By Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post on May 05, 2013, at 5:26 a.m.
Off the coast of Maine, lobsters are molting six weeks to two months earlier than normal.
Restoration efforts put spotlight on once plentiful alewives
Despite alewives being the focus of sometimes contentious efforts to improve their access to Down East Maine freshwater spawning habitats, these migratory fish remain something of a mystery to many, while at the same time remaining a favorite food for wide variety of Maine wildlife. Alewives as a meal for ...
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Annual Plant Sale A Merry
The Merryspring Plant Sale will be held on Friday, May 10, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Friday’s sale is for Members Only, but you can become a Merryspring member at the sale or by calling 236-2239. Saturday’s sale is open ...
From the community
Preserving Farmland for Maine’s Future
John Piotti of the Maine Farmland Trust will lead a presentation on preserving farmland for Maine’s future at Merryspring Nature Center on Tuesday, May 7 at 12:00 noon. This lively discussion will address the state of farming in Maine and how preservation programs like the Maine Farmland Trust can help ...
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Rising Seas Could Threaten Many Acadia NP Marshes
This release can be found in the USGS Newsroom at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3577. News Release ——————————————————————————– April 29, 2013 Martha Nielsen 207-622-8201, ext. 116 mnielsen@usgs.gov Diane Noserale 703-648-4333 dnoseral@usgs.gov ——————————————————————————– Rising Seas Could Threaten Many Acadia NP Marshes The report and maps are available online. AUGUSTA, Maine – More than 800 acres ...
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Maine Audubon seeks anglers for Brook Trout Survey Project
Bangor Daily News on April 30, 2013, at 5:17 p.m.
FALMOUTH, Maine — Maine Audubon, Trout Unlimited and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) are seeking volunteer anglers to survey remote ponds in western and northern Maine for brook trout this coming fishing season. Survey information collected by anglers will be used by the nonprofit organizations and ...
Maine DEP holds first public hearing for Bowers Mountain wind project
LEE, Maine — Opponents and proponents have begun two days of public hearings before the state’s top environmental agency arguing the merits and problems with an industrial wind site proposed for Bowers Mountain. Project intervenors will have two full days of testimony and cross examination followed by night sessions for ...
From the community
COA Joins EPA Food Recovery Challenge – and connects to local elementary school
BAR HARBOR, ME—College of the Atlantic has joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Challenge. COA stands with 33 other colleges in New England in the EPA’s effort to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste. COA has long been treating its food “waste” as opportunity. ...
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FrogWatch USA offering free training at SERC
WINTER HARBOR, Maine — FrogWatch USA is a national frog and toad monitoring program of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Volunteers adopt a wetland and listen for calling frogs and toads during evenings in February through August. There is a FrogWatch USA coordinator training workshop on the SERC campus ...
VIDEO
Elver price dips from 2012 high but poaching persists
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s 2013 elver fishing season is not playing out as a repeat of 2012. For one, the penalties now are higher, thanks to a new law that went into effect on Tuesday. Anyone who fishes or possesses the young American eels without a license now can be ...
LIVE VIDEO
Nest camera uncovers osprey love triangle drama on Hog Island; female bird lays first egg of season
Rachel and Steve seemed like the perfect couple — building a nest together and raising their babies in a perch high above Hog Island in the town of Bremen. Everyone figured they’d be together forever, or at least through this year’s nesting season. “Osprey are famed for being monogamous and ...
Cooke Aquaculture to pay $490,000 after illegal pesticides kill lobsters in Canada
A Canadian firm that is a subsidiary of the largest aquaculture operator in Maine pleaded guilty Friday in a Canadian courtroom to using illegal pesticides that killed hundreds of lobsters a little more than a mile from Maine’s border. Cooke Aquaculture, based in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, agreed Friday to ...
From the community
Editorial
I have now dropped two memberships of the four environmental organizations now voicing support for Industrial Wind Towers on Bowers Mountain. Rather than expressing a commitment to Maine’s “Brand” of clean scenic tourist attractions, they are endorsing Industrialization of nine lakes designated as Scenic Resources of State or National Significance. ...
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Growing Importance of School Gardens To Be Discussed at Merryspring
Ellie Libby will lead a presentation on regional school garden programs and their impact on the local food movement at Merryspring Nature Center on Tuesday, April 30 at 12:00 noon. In addition to being the perfect setting for learning about growing, harvesting, and cooking local food, school gardens are a ...
Chesapeake Bay’s smallmouth bass under siege, report says
By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post on April 25, 2013, at 9:16 p.m.
Smallmouth bass that draw hundreds of millions of dollars to the Chesapeake Bay region for sport fishing are sick, and many look too awful to ever mount as a trophy. A report released Thursday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the fish, particularly those in the lower Susquehanna River, have ...
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Bears,Bears, Bears….Our Neighbors
What is happening to our wild neighbors—to Maine’s black bears—and to our nation’s symbols of the West, grizzlies? The only two types of bears in the lower 48 states, black bears and grizzlies are the topic on Tuesday evening, May 7, 2013 @ 6:30 pm in the Belfast Free Library’s ...
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R.F. Jordan receives 2013 Build Maine Award for work on dam
Bangor Daily News on April 24, 2013, at 4:35 p.m.
ELLSWORTH, Maine — R.F. Jordan & Sons Construction Inc. of Ellsworth was awarded the 2013 Build Maine Award during a meeting on April 10 of the Maine Associated General Contractors of America in Augusta. Jordan was recognized for its work on the Great Works Dam removal project. The dam had ...
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