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Rare Spring Heatwave Brings Record Highs To Northern Maine

By • May 28, 2020

A rare spring heatwave is causing record high temperatures and dry conditions across Northern Maine, just a couple of weeks after the last snows.

Record Number Of Endangered Piping Plovers Nesting At Maine Beaches

By • May 27, 2020
Maine Audubon

FALMOUTH, Maine — A Maine-based wildlife conservation organization says a record number of piping plovers are nesting in the state so far this year.

Maine Considers More Than 60% Increase In Deer Permits For 2020

By • May 22, 2020

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s wildlife biologists are considering expanding the number of deer hunting permits in the state to an all-time record.

A Maine Loon Killed A Bald Eagle By Stabbing It In The Heart, Examination Shows

By Nick Sambides Jr. - Bangor Daily News • May 21, 2020
Pat Wellenbach / Associated Press/file

It had to be one of the strangest cases of eagle death that Danielle D’Auria has ever seen.

NOAA Extends Waiver For Monitors On Fishing Ships

By • May 19, 2020

PORTLAND, Maine - The federal government is continuing to waive the need for some fishing vessels to carry at-sea monitors.

Activist Seeks Preliminary Injunction To Halt Lobster Fishing In Maine

By • May 16, 2020
New England Aquarium

There are new developments Friday in the legal battle over whether rope used by Maine lobstermen poses a deadly threat of entanglement to endangered North Atlantic right whales. An activist who has won past decisions to protect the whales filed a motion in Bangor federal court, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt lobster fishing in Maine.

Seal Pup Found Stranded On Maine Beach Makes Speedy Recovery

By • May 14, 2020

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. - A harbor seal pup found sick on a Maine beach last week has made a speedy recovery.

Maine Wildlife Officials Warn Of Bear Attacking Livestock, Beehives

By • May 13, 2020

JAY, Maine - A black bear has attacked ten goats, eight of whom died, and destroyed three beehives in homes across southern Maine.

CMP Wins Permits From Two State Agencies For Western Maine Power Line

By • May 11, 2020
Fred Bever / Maine Public

The state Department of Environmental Protection and the Land Use Planning Commission signed off today on vital land use permits Central Maine Power needs for its proposed 151-mile power line through western Maine.

Maine's Katahdin Woods And Waters Wins Rare 'Dark Sky Sanctuary' Designation

By • May 8, 2020
Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press/file

If you want to see the night sky in all its pristine dark glory, you could go to Antarctica. But if you can't, the International Dark-Sky Association says the next best place is Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

Scientists To Take The Stage In Different Kind Of Moose Fest

By • May 5, 2020

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine's annual moose hunt lottery is typically part of a big celebration of the giant animals, but this year scientists and game wardens will take the stage.

UMaine Seeking Landowners For Tick Surveillance Project

By • May 4, 2020

YORK, Maine - Maine's flagship public university is looking for forest landowners to work with on a tick surveillance project.

NOAA Extends Protection Zone For Right Whales Off Boston

By • Apr 28, 2020
Cynthia Christman / NOAA

BOSTON - Federal ocean managers are asking mariners to continue slowing down east of Boston because of sightings of rare right whales in the area.

Spring Storm Brings Snow to Maine, NH

By • Apr 27, 2020

RANGELEY, Maine - A spring snowfall brought up to half a foot of snow in some areas of Maine and New Hampshire.

Maine Has Changed Its Recycling Rules To Guard Workers From Exposure To COVID-19

By • Apr 23, 2020
Alan Levine / Flickr Creative Commons

Many Maine communities have pared back or dropped recycling programs in an effort to guard workers from potential exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Some big supermarkets have also curtailed in-store redemption efforts. To accommodate these moves, Gov. Janet Mills has ordered that the state ease enforcement of some recycling rules.

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