Environment and Outdoors

By day, Derek Yorks is a wildlife biologist for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, specializing in reptiles. But he and a friend have been working evenings and weekends to develop a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify and capture invasive snakes and lizards in a robotic trap.

As the state's wind power trailblazer, Mars Hill exposed some of the regulatory and legal pitfalls that can result when 400-foot-tall wind turbines are built near homes.

The proposed legislation could add nearly 43,000 acres to the south of the existing monument and clear a dedicated route for the public to access it from Millinocket, East Millinocket and Medway.

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State officials recommend doing yardwork when leaves are wet to prevent the browntail hairs from becoming airborne.

Salmon once spawned in the Meduxnekeag River in Aroostook County, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians is trying to bring them back by restoring not just a river, but an entire watershed.

Potatoes are far and away Maine's most lucrative crop, with a harvest valued at more than $200 million last year. But Aroostook County farmers are dealing with a new challenge: climate change, which has brought warmer and drier temperatures to northern Maine in recent years.

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The highest magnitude earthquake recorded in Maine was in 1904 in Eastport, which is estimated to have been a 5.9 on the Richter Scale. He says the chance of Maine having a high magnitude earthquake in the next 50 years is less than 2%.

Environmentalists are criticizing a decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management not to conduct a comprehensive environmental review before designating areas for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.