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As of Saturday, May 5, 2012, Wildlife Management District (WMD) 9 will be open to turkey hunting through June 2nd. WMD 9 includes the area northeast of Greenville to Baxter State Park. Analysis of data and observations indicate the turkey population in the WMD is healthy and will support a hunting season like neighboring districts 10 and 14.
Recognizing that schools, hospitals, and many commercial businesses are concerned about rising oil prices and their dependence on fossil fuel, Pelletco LLC, a Maine-grown company, has developed an alternative high energy, low moisture patented pellet fuel offering significant savings over fossil fuels by 50-70%. Pelletco’s pellet is made from sustainable, renewable resources from Maine’s forests and grasslands and is mixed with a polymer binder, creating 37-percent more energy in a more durable and water-resistant pellet.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reminds everyone that they have until May 14th to apply for a Moose Permit! This year’s lottery will take place at the Oquossoc Marina in Rangeley, Maine on June 23rd. Maine plans to award 3,725 permits this year. The winners will be announced first in Oquossoc, and then the entire list will be published.
The acquisition today by the State of Maine of more than 5,700 acres south of Millinocket in Piscataquis County, including 2 miles of Seboeis Lake shoreland, is expected to enhance outdoor recreation, tourism, public access and economic development throughout the region, according to state and conservation officials.
The Harlow Gallery, the Kennebec Local Foods Initiative and g-Blu design are delighted to announce the launch of a blog site, csaart.org. The blog site will allow the public to follow the progress of artists working on CSA: Community Supporting Arts. Csaart.org is designed and maintained by Chris Cart of g-Blu design in Hallowell – visit g-blu.com. We’ve partnered 14 Maine artists with 13 CSA farmers in central Maine, and those artists are busy creating work inspired by their farmers lives, work, landscapes and ideals over the course of the 2012 growing season.
The first in a four-part sustainability series in May hosted by Lithgow Public Library will be an informational program about the proposed Maine Woods National Park. On Thursday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m.,Tom and Lee Ann Szelog return to Lithgow Library with a multi-media presentation featuring the music of legendary folk singer Pete Seeger along with Tom Szelog’s stunning nature photographs. Since 2007, the Szelogs have put a face to the land and wildlife of the proposed 3.2 million-acre park in northern Maine through their “Maine Woods National Park Photo-Documentation Project.”
A coalition of 11 groups, including Environment Maine, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Sierra Club Maine, ENE (Environment Northeast), and Conservation Law Foundation, submitted the comments, which focus on the environmental and public health dangers presented by the tar sands project and the need for a comprehensive environmental and public safety review. If fully completed, the tar sands pipeline reversal could threaten the Androscoggin River, Sebago Lake, and Casco Bay.
Friends of Maine’s Mountains (FMM) congratulates the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed (PPDLW) for its successful efforts to protect the Downeast Lakes region of Maine. We join PPDLW and countless Maine citizens, professional guides and sporting camp owners in celebrating this significant victory.
Attendees will spend three mornings in workshops of no more than twelve participants working on either fiction with Cynthia Underwood Thayer or memoir with Monica Wood. Afternoons will be open for writing and optional thirty-minute individual sessions with the instructors. In addition to the intensive workshops and one-on-one sessions, the weekend will include faculty and participant readings.
The 12th annual meeting of the Friends of Baxter State Park will be held at the Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital Street in Augusta, on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Prior to the meeting, there will be a bird walk at 7:30 am. At 8:30 am coffee and muffins will be available and art pertaining to Baxter State Park (BSP) and Katahdin will be on display. The meeting, which runs from 9 am to 12:30 pm, includes a report on the “State of the Park” by BSP Park Resource Director Rick Morrill.
To this end, the Maine Legislature established the Boating Facilities Fund in 1963, administered by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL), and funded with the state tax on gasoline used by recreational motor boats. BPL uses these funds to acquire, develop and renovate recreational boat access sites and to place and maintain navigational buoys on nearly 50 inland lakes and ponds.
Sebago Lake State Park Campground – Maine’s most popular and largest state campground – will open Friday for the season and Patriot’s Day Weekend, April 14-16. The campground opening is about four weeks earlier than usual, according to officials with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, under the Maine Department of Conservation.
“Feathers Over Freeport,” a two-day birding event at Bradbury Mountain State Park, Pownal, and Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport, will provide visitors an easy and enjoyable introduction to the raptors, songbirds and backyard birds who make their home in this state. This year’s event, under the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, Maine Department of Conservation, will feature a wide variety of activities and demonstrations, including live-bird demonstrations, bird walks for people of all abilities, identification workshops and numerous children’s activities.
Musician and Music Venue Events for May, and Beyond – Keep Checking Back
Theater, Social and Public Events for May 2012 and Beyond – Updated Regularly!
Maine’s Office of Securities Issues Advisory to Warn Consumers about “Crowdfunding” Investments
Sam Whitman Band, w/ Megan Murphy, and The Golden Prize at Johnson Hall 5/19/12
Work by Cony High School Art Students on view at in Augusta Until July 7, 2012
Disc Golf Event to Benefit Issinryu Karate Academy in Randolph on May 20, 2012
REMINDER: Artists invited to an Art Critique with Abbott Meader at The Harlow on May 20, 2012
Maine Historical Society News for the Week of May 16, 2012
Natural Inclination Show at Monkee Tree to Benefit Natural Resources Council
Francine Reed on May 19th, Portland String Quartet on 22nd at Boothbay Opera House
