NRCM news release Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), the state’s leading nonprofit membership organization working to protect Maine’s land, air, water, and wildlife, has named its 2014 Conservation Leadership Award winners. Award recipients will be honored at a special event Wednesday, October 15 from 5–7:00 p.m., at Maple Hill Farm Read More
At the Core of Beauty and Peace: Paddling the Debsconeags
by NRCM board member Karen Herold In early July, NRCM’s Executive Director, Lisa Pohlmann, asked a friend and a couple of NRCM board members who like canoeing if we wanted to come for an end-of-summer paddle. The dates lined up effortlessly, but by mid-August we had yet to decide where to go. We batted around Read More
My Maine This Week: “Ktaadn” by Sam Horine
“These are two photos of ‘Ktaadn’ from almost in the new proposed National Park. The spelling is from Thoreau. My wife and I spent a few days at Katahdin Lake Wilderness Camps last week and this is a shot from the shore of Katahdin Lake.” (Click on photo to enlarge) “On a clear morning, the Read More
My Maine This Week: Barred Owl by Dave Small
“This guy glided across the trail only feet in front of me at Plymouth Bog, a Maine Wildlife Management Area. It gave me quite a start. It landed on a branch perhaps 10 yards into the woods and 15 feet high. As I bobbed around trying to get a shot, the owl seemed also to be Read More
A River of People
They were old and young. Men and women. Black, white, brown, and everything in between. Workers with hardhats and professors. It seemed like the full spectrum of American diversity was on the streets in New York on Sunday, September 21st. And they were all calling for action on climate change. The messages were as diverse Read More
My Maine This Week: Nancy Root
“I took this photo on a visit to Maine in 2008 while standing on the ‘longest wooden footbridge in the country’ (as claimed by Yankee Magazine in their March/April article about the footbridge house), looking toward the inner harbor in Boothbay Harbor. I have walked across this bridge more times than I can count in Read More
My Maine This Week: Jane Gagnon
“This image is taken at Sherwood Forest in Auburn of a Downy Woodpecker working for his lunch. It was only my first visit to this pretty trail, which is part of the Androscoggin Land Trust. It is a short trail and just five minutes from the downtown area. You could say it was peaceful except for Read More
My Maine This Week: Stephanie Davis
“This picture was taken at Moxie Falls right before you get to the point that the falls turn into the waterfall.” – Photo by Stephanie Davis of Surry, Maine
Maine Business Leaders, Citizens Press Senator Collins to Support EPA Action on Climate Change
400 Businesses Have Signed On Urging Collins to Act NRCM News Release PORTLAND, MAINE – Today, leading environmental organizations, lobstermen, wind and ocean energy experts, and other Mainers gathered near Senator Collins’ Portland office encouraging her to support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan when she goes back to Washington, D.C. next week. They unveiled a list Read More
