Category: Environment

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Salmon from a fish tank

On the Fourth of July, many a Maine family once sat down to a traditional meal of fresh salmon, garden peas, and new potatoes dug from the warm earth. A century ago, Maine salmon were known around the world as being among the best of seafoods. In the late 18th… SEE MORE

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Reading the ‘priestess of nature’ who took on the ‘elixirs of death’

By Tom Walsh                                  If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance. The Library of America recruited the help of editor Sandra Steingraber in recently publishing a new retrospective on marine biologist Rachel Carson and her seminal role in jump-starting environmentalism in post-World War II… SEE MORE
Cars fill the parking spaces at the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.

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Reservations for Acadia visits top proposal in plan

A reservation system for visiting Acadia National Park is among the top proposals in the National Park Service’s draft transportation plan, released April 26. The plan has been in the works since 2015, due to traffic congestion from increased visitation. On the weekend of July 4, 2017, for example, the… SEE MORE
A crew member cleans balconies on a cruise ship docked at Portland’s Ocean Gateway in 2014.

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CruiseMaine evaluating potential, impact

The cruise ship industry’s growing interest in visiting Maine’s harbor towns is being hailed as opportunity by some, and branded as threat by others. While communities like Bar Harbor and Rockland are debating the relative merits of this part of the tourism economy, there’s no denying its size and impact.… SEE MORE