HWA High-Risk Season Starts in March

The Maine Forest Service warns that the hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA) high-risk season starts March 1. Live hemlock material has a high risk for spreading the invasive HWA bug [...]

Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce to Host Lisa Dickinson

 Business Insider meeting on February 17.
Scientist Dickson on Sustainability
The Green Markets – Sustainability is driving the new economy.This has created a wave of innovation throughout the public and private sectors, [...]

Maine Annual Snow Survey Under Way

Members of the Maine Cooperative Snow Survey are undertaking their second data-collection session on Monday and Tuesday, part of their annual efforts to monitor the water content of Maine’s [...]

Yarmouth Extends Call to Artists, Artisans and Craft Persons

Famous 240 Year Old Maine Elm Tree to be Downed January 18th
The Herbie Project of Yarmouth, Maine is calling for and soliciting proposals from all artists, artisans, crafts persons, [...]

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Maine Warden Service Says ‘Stay Off The Ice’

AUGUSTA – The Maine Warden Service is urging people to not venture out onto any ice that may be covering Maine’s waterways.
Throughout Maine, the state’s lakes and ponds may [...]

On The Horizon

By Meghan Fitzgerald-Black, Contributor
This morning as I looked outside, the brown and patchy grass was covered with a glistening layer of crystal so thick it looked as if the [...]

Land Trust Hosts Lecture on Wind Power

At Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath

Wind power will be the topic of the final installment of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s popular fall lecture series, Wood, Water [...]

Celebrate Earth Science Day at the Maine State Museum

Wednesday, October 21 9 A.M to 3 P.M.
The Maine State Museum will host Earth Science Day, a statewide celebration highlighting the geology of Maine.
A group consisting of geologists, environmental [...]

Fall is in the Air

Leaves
by Elsie N. Brady
How silently they tumble down
And come to rest upon the ground
To lay a carpet, rich and rare,
Beneath the trees without a care,
Content to sleep, their work well [...]

Maine Parks Offer Guided Foliage Hikes

Why do the leaves change colors? What triggers leaves to fall?
How do I identify trees?
Learn the answers to these questions and so much more. The Bureau of Parks & [...]

Parks Boating Facilities Division Wins National Award

AUGUSTA, Maine – The Boating Facilities Division of the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, under the Maine Department of Conservation, has been awarded the top prize for excellence [...]

Maine Environmental Depot

Hazardous Waste Collection Facility
The Depot is the first permanent household hazardous waste collection facility in Maine, open to all residents.  Maine residents can bring in HHW via pre-arranged accounts set [...]

More Trouble for Maine Hemlocks

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine – Only a year after hemlock woolly adelgid was detected in Kennebunkport forests, a second destructive exotic pest of hemlocks — elongate hemlock scale — has been found [...]