The once-a-decade conservation blueprint will weigh climate change threats, include plants as well as animals and emphasize habitat protection.
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Maine tree spraying will kill any caterpillars, not just forest pests
While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the caterpillar form of two threatened butterflies. Spraying supporters say plans call for a targeted approach.
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Tracking Maine’s wild mussel beds: Declining or retreating into the deep?
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute would like the public to help hunt for wild mussel beds below the low-tide line.
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Peregrine falcons show signs of national decline, but not in Maine
The deadly avian flu killing falcons in other states hasn’t hit here, but biologists still worry about Maine’s peregrine population because it’s so small.
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Go see the alewives as they migrate up Maine rivers — and hurry | Column
The sea-run fish are still making their way to the lakes and ponds where they spawn.
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Trump administration seeks to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, including in Gulf of Maine
The Department of the Interior also moved to speed up permitting for a range of energy sources, primarily fossil fuels.
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Maine announces record $8M in state climate resilience grants
More than 150 communities across the state are included in the latest round of state climate resilience grants announced by Gov. Janet Mills in Kennebunkport, which was heavily damaged by back-to-back storms in January 2024.
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Trump administration cut key FEMA grant. What does that mean for Maine projects?
Eighteen resilience projects around the state had their Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities applications terminated with the cancellation of the program and are now seeking alternate funding.
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Farmers angry over federal funding cuts rally at Maine State House
They showed up, on their tractors, to protest millions in cuts to federal grants, canceled support for school lunches and the termination of 20% of USDA workers who support Maine’s farmers.
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Lawmakers consider $10M bailout for Fairfield water crisis
A bill would expand the public water system to Fairfield residents whose private wells have been contaminated by toxic forever chemicals from the state’s former agricultural sludge-spreading program.