Good afternoon Senator Vitelli, Representative Dill, and members of the Committee. My name is Cathy Johnson. I am a resident of Alna. I am testifying today on behalf of NRCM’s 16,000 members and supporters in support of both LD 1823 and LD 1847. Last fall we learned, to our total surprise, that the Maine Forest Read More
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Boreal Forest: Maine Planners Stand to Learn Lessons from Canada’s Subarctic Timberlands
The challenges facing Maine and Canadian forests point up the need for overall land-use planning. by North Cairn, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story Maine’s more than 19 million acres of forest face challenges that are showing up in Canadian timberlands, too, including stresses that have decimated several species of migratory songbirds and waterfowl. Read More
Land For Maine’s Future Projects in Jeopardy as Gov Refuses to Authorize Borrowing
by Susan Sharon MPBN news story Conservationists say they’ve never seen anything like it. As many as two dozen working forests, working farms and outdoor recreation projects around the state could be in jeopardy even though they were approved for funding last year by the Land for Maine’s Future Program, with the advice and consent Read More
Maine Acquires 5,700 Acres around Seboeis Lake for Outdoor Recreation, Timber, Wildlife
Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story Maine officials on Monday announced the acquisition of more than 5,700 acres of land south of Millinocket in a deal that will protect an additional 2 miles of shoreline along Seboeis Lake while securing key snowmobile and ATV routes in the region. Several years in the making, the Read More
Join Us February 14 in Augusta: Notes from the Auburn Hearing
The Regulatory Fairness hearings being held around the state by the Legislative Regulatory Reform Committee are bringing out large numbers of Maine citizens and business owners who want to see Maine’s environmental standards strengthened, not weakened. During the hearings there have been specific suggestions to improve the implementation of particular laws, but generally, little to Read More
Environmental Groups Critical of Plum Creek and Maine Regulators
by Susan Sharon Maine Public Radio news story Just days after the Plum Creek Timber Company acknowledged that it mistakenly logged a deer wintering area and violated a voluntary agreement with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the company is under fire again; and so is the state agency that oversees land use in Read More
Maine Forest Practices Examined
by Susan Sharon Maine Public Radio news story More than a decade after Maine voters were besieged with confusing forestry terms and a series of statewide referendums designed to restrict large-scale clearcutting and improve forestry standards, Maine’s Conservation Commissioner says the state’s forests are healthy and Maine’s loggers are using best management practices. “We have Read More
