Howland fish bypass completes collaborative effort to rebalance fisheries and hydropower on Maine’s largest river News release Howland, ME – Today, federal, state, local, and tribal representatives, and project partners gathered in Howland, Maine, to mark and celebrate the completion of the last major milestone in the Penobscot River Restoration Project: the newly constructed fish Read More
My Maine This Week: Great Blue Herons by Richard Flanagan
These Great Blue Heron photos were taken by NRCM member Richard Flanagan of Fairfield, Maine. To see past My Maine This Week photos, or to submit a photo of your own to be featured on our website, please visit www.nrcm.org/our-maine/my-maine-this-week.
New Angles: Gorham Students Measure Trees
Students at Gorham Middle School have been practicing a variety of methods for measuring different kinds of trees outside their school. Check out an update from teacher Angela Gospodarek, as well as photos of all the action and a fantastic video produced by the Mrs. Gospodarek and her students. The students were excited to get Read More
Windham Middle School Students Observe the Birds!
Check out the next installment of Windham Middle School’s Bird Blog! Each student in their three observation groups has been making careful observations at Windham’s new bird feeder stations! Tayshawn~ This week we have not seen any birds but we have been looking at the bird cams. We saw a lot of Hairy and Downy Read More
LePage Offers to Meet with Leader of Natural Resources Council of Maine
But the way the invitation is announced – and the response from the group’s executive director – highlights the chilly relations between the governor and Maine’s largest environmental group. By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story Gov. Paul LePage has invited the head of the Natural Resources Council of Maine to meet Read More
LePage Launches New Salvo Against Environmental Group
By Christopher Cousins, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage continued confronting the Natural Resources Council of Maine, accusing them Wednesday of “playing to the media” and inviting the group’s director, Lisa Pohlmann, to meet with him. LePage, critical of a news conference held by the NRCM last week Read More
NRCM Response to Governor’s June 8 Radio Address
Governor LePage has asked to meet with me and I am certainly prepared to do so, and I will bring with me some of the people in Maine who strongly believe that a clean environment is essential for a healthy Maine economy. In January 2011, we invited the governor to attend a roundtable on the Read More
LePage Invites Natural Resources Council Director to a Sit-down
The invitation comes after the governor sent letters to the council’s donors suggesting they were supporting a group that is harming Maine’s economy. By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story Gov. Paul LePage said he invited the head of the Natural Resources Council of Maine to meet with him to discuss ways Read More
LePage Keeps a List of NRCM Donors? This Reminds Us of Other Shady Politicians.
By The BDN Editorial Board Bangor Daily News editorial Gov. Paul LePage has made no secret of his enemies list. It includes highly respected Republican state Sen. Roger Katz, the media and the state’s teachers union. He ratcheted up the hatred this spring with wanted posters featuring people who work for the Maine People’s Alliance, Read More
