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Find and Remove Ticks from Your Body Bathe or shower as soon as possible after coming indoors (preferably within two hours) to wash off and more easily find ticks that are crawling on you. Conduct a full-body tick check using a hand-held or full-length mirror to view all parts of your body upon return from tick-infested areas. Parents should check their children for ticks under the arms, in and around the ears, inside the belly button, behind the knees, between the legs, around the waist, and especially in their hair. Examine gear and pets. Ticks can ride into the home on clothing and pets, then attach to a person later, so carefully examine pets, coats, and day packs. Tumble clothes in a dryer on high heat for an hour to kill remaining ticks.
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) is the largest watershed in Maine where the Eastern brook trout is still the top predator fish in the ecosystem. From Telos Dam to Allagash Falls, big brookies rule the lakes and river that makeup the 92-mile-long wilderness waterway. Springtime — May and June — is when brook trout are most active and feed ravenously. They are fairly easy to catch when they are on a feeding frenzy and will hit almost anything. As fishermen, we just need to find that special place where the fish congregate at the right time.
The recent boom in U.S. natural gas production has been hailed as thecure to all America’s ills. Gas, its boosters say, can reduce household heating expenses, enhance energy security, create jobs, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Are you curious what a national park in the North Woods could mean for Maine? How Maine’s new mining law could affect our North Woods? How this year’s legislature has changed planning and management for the North Woods? “Thoreau’s North Woods: Opportunities, Threats, & the Beauty of the Place” offers an opportunity to discuss these issues, and connect with Maine’s North Woods through stunning photography, on Tuesday, May 22 4:30-6:00 p.m. at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, 3 Wade Street in Augusta.
Piping Plovers are an endangered shorebird species that nest on white sand beaches where nesting success is a constant struggle against weather, beachgoers, pets, and predators. They were listed on the state’s Endangered Species List in 1997, and were federally listed as Threatened Species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1986.
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.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine serves on the steering committee for the CRADLE² Coalition, which includes more than 30 organizations from around the country concerned about the squandering of natural resources, the impacts on climate change, the potential for pollution, and the loss of jobs from wasting valuable, recyclable materials in landfills and incinerators.
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.
Wolfe’sNeckWoodsState Park offers nature programs at 2 p.m. on Sundays through April 22 weather permitting. Starting at the benches at the end of the second parking lot, one-hour guided programs may include a walk, short talks, and other activities.
Would you like to canoe the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW)? If your answer to this question is yes, but you don’t have the time to spend an entire week canoeing from Chamberlain Lake to Allagash Village, I want you to know that you have other options.There are several opportunities for shorter Allagash adventures without canoeing the entire 92-mile-long waterway.
It goes by many names. April’s full moon is sometimes referred to as the “pink moon,” because of the herb, moss pink, a ground phlox relative that blooms in spectacular fashion at this time of year in some regions. It’s also called the “sprouting grass moon,” and the “fish moon” among native coastal tribes, as April is the time when shad swim upstream to spawn. If I were tasked with naming the moons, I would call this one the “Hey, Everybody, Winter is Over, So Let’s All Celebrate Spring at Reid State Park” moon!
Gardiner Recycling Advisory Group Urges You to Do Your Part for Earth Day 2012: Compost Your Yard and Food Waste! Orders may be placed by returning the attached order form or visiting our online store www.gardinermaine.com.
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