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Crossword Clues
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1 Maine’s highest mountain
5 Recycling Reform’s Director and celebrity mascot
8 NRCM partnership with Maine breweries
12 Showcases NRCM members’ nature photos
13 NRCM members get discounts here
17 NRCM web-based map featuring special places open for public recreation
18 Celebrated each year since 1970 on April 22
19 Seabird, popular w/ NRCM members, restored to Maine’s Eastern Egg Rock
22 Maine has almost 4,000 miles of this
25 NRCM’s spotlight on Maine’s wildlife
26 Largest source of Maine climate change pollution (3 words)
28 Boundary river between eastern Maine and New Brunswick
29 Name of NRCM’s newsletter
30 Popular land conservation program (abbr)
32 Clean energy legislation NRCM helped pass in 2019
34 NRCM helped protect this from dangerous metal mining
35 Landmark law protecting Maine’s scenic highways
37 Katahdin _ _ _ National Monument (3 words)
43 Failed project proposed for East & West branches of Penobscot River
46 _-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
48 The name of this publication
50 NRCM’s brochure of energy-saving tips
52 First strategy on the waste hierarchy
53 Making your voice heard
54 NRCM’s web address
56 Maine Senator who led Clean Water Act effort
57 Warming temps puts this favorite Maine seafood at risk
58 Issue NRCM was founded on
59 Maine’s largest land mammal
60 Maine’s most effective recycling program (90%)
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2 River inspired push for Clean Water Act
3 These 37 conserved places protect habitat and provide recreation
4 Passamaquoddy Bay protected when this was rejected in 1983
6 Lake NRCM helped protect from Plum Creek
7 Name of NRCM’s podcast
9 First-in-nation product steward law NRCM helped pass in 2006
10 NRCM-hosted event for members to meet with elected officials
11 Name of NRCM’s youth leadership honors
13 Largest undeveloped area east of the Mississippi (no apostrophe)
14 First dam removed by Penobscot River Restoration Project
15 CMP transmission line (4 words)
16 Edwards Dam removed from this river
20 Protecting the (NRCM tagline)
21 Maine’s state bird
23 Science author summered in Southport
24 Where NRCM works to help prevent and pass laws
27 Composting with worms
31 Threatens coastal areas due to climate change
33 Dam removed from Sebasticook River in 2008
36 National Monument established in 2016 (abbr.)
38 NRCM event held New Year’s Eve day (3 words)
39 NRCM’s young leaders’ group
40 NRCM’s work is based on this
41 Maine’s state tree
42 Benefit from native flowering plants
44 Tick-borne disease spreading in Maine due to climate change
45 Sea-run fish that benefit from river restoration
47 Law passed to protect what we breathe
49 By 2050 scientists expect the ocean will have more of this in it than fish
50 Fast, clean, low- or no-cost human-powered transportation machine
51 Producers pay for recycling programs instead of taxpayers under this type of law
(abbr.)
55 Do this with food waste to cut carbon emissions
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