NRCM supporter Stephen Moriarty of West Bath sent us this photo a few weeks ago when we asked our enewsletter subscribers to send us their beautiful Maine photos. Thank you, Stephen! He writes, “This was taken during our annual Indigenous Peoples Day picnic hike at Porter Preserve in Boothbay. It is a lovely shaded spot in Read More
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My Maine This Week: Medawisla Lodge
This week’s photo was sent to us by Lem, a freshman at Baxter Academy. He took this photo in September during the Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s Maine Woods Rambler at Medawisla Lodge in the Moosehead Lake region. The Lodge is on Appalachian Mountain Club conservation land and is part of AMC’s Maine Wilderness Lodge network. Read More
My Maine This Week: Waldoboro Sunset & Elm by Steve Cartwright
Longtime NRCM member Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine, shares this beautiful sunset photo he took in Waldoboro recently. We are thankful for Steve and all of our My Maine This Week photographers and members. In this season of gratitude, we would like to thank all of you who support our work to protect the Read More
NECEC’s Flawed Conservation Plan Should Not Have Been Approved
News release from Appalachian Mountain Club, Maine Audubon, Natural Resources Council of Maine, and Trout Unlimited The Conservation Plan intended to mitigate for the impacts of a 53-mile-long transmission corridor fails to meet the permit requirements Augusta, Maine – A Conservation Plan filed by Central Maine Power (CMP) and approved earlier this week by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as mitigation for the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line fails to Read More
Creature Feature: Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Cool Fact: Or in this case…”cold” fact—Cardinals don’t migrate or fly south for the winter like most other birds. They will shiver and tense their muscles to generate heat, having the ability to drop their body temperature 3 – 6° in order to survive cold temperatures. Named by early European settlers because of their resemblance Read More
Workers Call on Federal Government to Stop Blocking Offshore Wind During National “Yes to Wind” Week
(MAINE) – Workers on active offshore wind projects in the Atlantic Ocean, including a Maine resident, join clean energy and organized labor groups during the national “Yes to Wind” Week of Action in calling on the federal government to immediately withdraw its opposition to offshore wind projects in the Gulf of Maine and southern New Read More
My Maine This Week: Naomi McAllister
NRCM supporter Garth Bammer shares this photo of China Lake, taken by his sister Naomi McAllister. Mirror Image: A serene autumn day on China Lake, Maine
My Maine This Week: “Wings of Bar Harbor” by Adria Sherrill
Wings of Bar Harbor — a bird soaring through the morning light on the Maine coast. This week’s feature photo is by Adria Sherrill of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, who recently visited Maine on a fall trip. She writes, “As a Nurse Practitioner, I’m often surrounded by the intensity of human moments. Photography allows me to Read More
CMP Rate Hike Would Deliver Nearly $700M in Profits to Shareholders
Acadia Center | Conservation Law Foundation | Natural Resources Council of Maine (Augusta, ME) — The five-year spending proposal by Central Maine Power (CMP) collects an additional $1.7 billion from Maine electricity customers for the stated purpose of investments to the electric grid, but according to new analysis, nearly $700 million would be delivered directly Read More
