SNAPSHOT: Alewives' tale
Alewives stack up Sunday in Seven Mile Stream in Vassalboro, while migrating from the Atlantic Ocean to Webber Pond.
View ArticleNRCM Testimony in Support of LD 1427, "An Act To Establish a Resource and...
Senator Boyle, Representative Welsh, and members of the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. My name is Pete Didisheim, I am the Advocacy Director for the Natural Resources...
View ArticleNRCM Testimony in Opposition to LD 1039 and LD 1450, Takings Bills
Senator Valentino, Representative Priest, and members of the Judiciary Committee. My name is Pete Didisheim. I am the Advocacy Director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, and I appreciate the...
View ArticleBird-banding Science Takes Off
The kindergartners and first-graders can't quite believe their eyes: Live little birds in small cotton bags that can fit in the palms of their hands. And then take flight.On this sunny morning at the...
View ArticleIn Maine, Green Crabs Threaten Clamming
FREEPORT - They lurk underfoot and in the shallows, waiting for the tide to take them to their prey.Down by the thatch grass, dozens can be heard skittering and chittering in their nests.In droves,...
View ArticleStarvation Stressing Maine Puffin Colonies
PORTLAND — The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world.In the Gulf of Maine, the comical-looking...
View ArticleCelebrating Herring Homecoming on St. Croix River
Baileyville, Maine – Today, Tribal and federal Trustees joined with state and nongovernmental partners and Canadian officials to celebrate the reopening of the Grand Falls Dam fish ladder, which has...
View ArticleGrand Falls Fishway Reopens, Ending Dispute Over Cross-border Fish
The Grand Falls fishway has reopened, ending a decades-old dispute between Canada and the United States. (CTV Atlantic)A rift between Canada and the United States was settled on Wednesday after an...
View ArticleReturn of Alewives to St. Croix River Celebrated
There was a homecoming celebration on the St. Croix River in Baileyville today - for an ecologically and culturally significant species of fish. Alewives were almost completely driven out of the...
View ArticleThe Chickadees and the “Snake”
One of the things I love most about this time of year is the changing behavior of the birds around me. The males sing loud and strong as they set up territories and try to woo potential mates. Some...
View ArticleReturn of Alewives on St. Croix River Celebrated
BAILEYVILLE, Maine — For nearly 20 years, conservationists and, at times, state natural resource agencies, have sought to open the St. Croix River watershed to alewives. Those river herring had their...
View ArticleStarving Puffins Indicate Trouble at Sea
BELFAST, Maine — Maine seabirds – including the iconic Atlantic puffin – may be in trouble. Researchers are concerned about starving chicks and dead birds that washed up this winter off Cape Cod and...
View ArticleBond Logjam Hinders Public Access to Land
From anglers to hunters, snowmobile riders to cross-country skiers, a lot of people spend a lot of time outdoors in Maine. So with 94 percent of Maine land in private hands, efforts to ensure public...
View ArticleClimate Change Threatens Maine’s Lobsters
Rising flood waters. Exotic disease outbreaks. Melting glaciers.Pfft, trifling details. Mere distractions from more tangible impacts of climate change.Because why? Because LOBSTERS!The Natural...
View ArticleLobster Prices Down Once More
Lobster prices are falling again this season and are not expected to rise largely due to climate change, which is good news for consumers but not for lobstermen.Lobster fishers in Massachusetts got...
View ArticleState's Lobster Industry in Hot Water
Whether you're visiting Connecticut or you live here, chances are you've enjoyed a steaming lobster served with drawn butter or a roll stuffed with lobster meat.You've ordered lobsters at a seafood...
View ArticleMaine Lobsters Threatened By Climate Change, Scientists and Industry Warn
Polar bears aren’t the only animals affected by climate change -- a warmer world could soon be threatening that centerpiece of a New England summer: the Maine lobster.And what’s bad news for the Maine...
View ArticleProtect Wild Atlantic Salmon Runs
In the aftermath of the failure of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, an international treaty organization, to maintain its agreement on Greenland’s salmon fishery, the Atlantic...
View ArticleBoreal forest: Maine Planners Stand to Learn Lessons from Canada's Subarctic...
Maine's more than 19 million acres of forest face challenges that are showing up in Canadian timberlands, too, including stresses that have decimated several species of migratory songbirds and...
View ArticleProject Puffin Celebrates 40 Years, Addresses New Dangers
EASTERN EGG ROCK— Wings beating rapidly, an Atlantic puffin flew by, fish spilling from the sides of its orange bill.“He’s circling,” said Dr. Steve Kress, following the puffin with binoculars. “I...
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