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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine awarded $7 million to restore stream crossings on private roads
A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help restore some of Maine’s highest-value aquatic networks from fragmentation and degradation.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Outdoors
The first comprehensive guide to Maine’s birdlife in some 70 years gets everything right
Peter Vickery did not live to see his life’s work published, but ‘Birds of Maine’ – engaging, gorgeous and packed with information – is a great testament to a great ornithologist.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Backyard nature: Swimming serpents
Lots of snakes in the yard means I live in a healthy ecosystem so I’m rolling with it.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Backyard nature: spring is a cruel season
Spring draws amphibians to pools and ponds where they breed together and feed each other.
Posted inbPlus, Maine
Someone in Maine gunned down the last wild passenger pigeon
Though a captured bird remained alive in a zoo for another decade, nobody ever saw another wild passenger pigeon after a hunter shot one out of the sky in Bar Harbor in 1904.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Backyard nature: A frog-eat-frog world
Blue frogs. Green frogs. Little, big and mean frogs. I had to shelter at home and our pond has become my means for mental stimulation.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
VIDEO: What it means to be as busy as a bee
Sun Journal photographer Russ Dillingham has the buzz from Tuesday morning.
Posted inMaine, News
It’s a boom year for acorns, but the reason is a tough nut to crack
‘Mast years,’ when oaks of a certain type drop more seed than usual, occur every 2 to 5 years, and scientists can’t explain why.
Posted inSports
Where art and science meet: North Yarmouth artist renders wildlife
Fresh off a residency at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Michael Boardman wants to educate the public through his art about threats to breeding birds.