NRCM news release Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) has awarded its 2013 NRCM Environmental Awards to an outstanding individual and two groups of activists working to project Maine’s environment. The awards, which are presented at NRCM’s annual meeting, are given each year to people and groups that have made a Read More
Conservation Leadership Awards
NRCM 2013 Environmental Award Winner: Paul Bisulca
Paul Bisulca 2013 Environmental Award for exceptional efforts to reopen the St. Croix River to alewives It was great news for NRCM in 2012 when Paul Bisulca became involved in the fight to end Maine’s 1995 alewife law blocking these important fish from their ancestral spawning areas of the St. Croix River. NRCM had been Read More
NRCM 2013 People’s Choice Award Presented to “Thanks But No Tank”
Thanks But No Tank 2013 People’s Choice Award for exceptional efforts mobilizing and engaging citizens to protect Searsport and surrounding coastal communities from potential harm posed by a proposed LPG tank and terminal. This year, NRCM received 26 People’s Choice nominations from across the state. We then had the difficult task of narrowing it down to Read More
NRCM 2013 Environmental Award Winner: Tar Sands Activists from Casco, Harrison, Otisfield, South Portland, and Waterford
Tar Sands Activists 2013 Environmental Award for their hard work defending against the risks to air, land, and water by leading efforts in their communities to pass a municipal resolution in opposition to sending tar sands through Maine’s crude oil pipeline As part of our ongoing work to combat climate change, NRCM has been working Read More
NRCM 2012 Environmental Award Winner: Mark Stadler
2012 Environmental Award, Mark Stadler For his decades of service protecting Maine wildlife as leader of the Wildlife Division at Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and for his invaluable efforts in the Legislature and before the Board of Environmental Protection that helped defeat extreme rollbacks of strong protections for Maine’s inland wading bird and waterfowl habitat. Read More
NRCM 2012 Environmental Award: Representative Bob Duchesne
Representative Bob Duchesne, 2012 Environmental Award For his tireless and skilled leadership across a broad range of legislative issues, bringing passion and humor to the job of defending Maine’s environment through the passage and defense of strong laws As a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee in the Maine Legislature, Bob knew that Read More
NRCM 2012 Environmental Award Winner: Sam Day
Sam Day, 2012 Environmental Award For his exceptional efforts to raise awareness about issues threatening Maine’s watersheds and native fisheries, and for his effective lobbying and testimony at the Legislature to protect Maine’s wetlands and waterfowl. The first person we’d like to acknowledge this evening was initially nominated for our People’s Choice Award—the winner of Read More
Force of Nature, for Nature, Brownie Carson ’69 Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Bowdoin Daily Sun news story Everett B. “Brownie” Carson ’69, the 2005 Common Good Award winner, was given the 2011 Environmental Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), the organization he led for 27 years, until his retirement in January 2011. “Brownie has been an ever-present force of nature, for Read More
Mt. Vernon Resident Wins 2011 NRCM Environmental Award
Augusta, ME — The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is pleased to announce that Sandra Wright of Mt. Vernon has won a 2011 NRCM Environmental Award, for her work engaging her members of her community in legislative action. (Read full citation at end of this page.) “For future generations to know and enjoy the Read More
