MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release June 14, 2016 Contact: Leslie Taylor, Media Managerltaylor@maineaudubon.org207-781-2330 x276mobile: 347-225-1510 Penobscot River Restoration Project Celebrates Final Milestone, Reconnects River to the Sea Howland fish bypass completes collaborative effort to …
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Celebrating the Start of Summer
It finally feels like summer here at Gilsland Farm and everything is green and blooming. Buds are just starting to emerge in our formal peony garden, right on schedule so they will hopefully be near peak flower for our Peony Bloom and Ice Cream Social on June 15. The Peony Bloom and Ice Cream …
Action Alert: Explore What Comes Next for Solar In Maine
Join us for a series of forums around the state that will help answer your questions and explore what comes next for solar in Maine. The series, entitled The Future of Solar in Maine, will bring leading voices on the issue to communities across the state. Forums are planned …
MEDIA RELEASE: Citizen Scientists Needed to Help Watch for Wildlife on the Road
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release May 24, 2016 Contact: Leslie Taylor, Media Manager ltaylor@maineaudubon.org 207-781-2330 x276 mobile: 347-225-1510 FALMOUTH – Maine Audubon is looking for volunteers to survey roads in Maine for signs of animal road crossings. Now that the …
MEDIA RELEASE: Maine Audubon names Jeremy Cluchey as Director of Communications & Marketing
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release May 18, 2016 Contact: Leslie Taylor, Media Manager ltaylor@maineaudubon.org 207-781-2330 x276 mobile: 347-225-1510 Today Maine Audubon announced that Jeremy Cluchey will be joining the team as Director of Communications & Marketing. A Maine native, Cluchey …
Conferences and Collaborative Ventures
April marks spring, a time for large migrations of birds and a time of change for plants. But spring is also is a key time for bringing people together for conferences and collaborative ventures. In early April I spoke at Colby College at a wonderful conference on Community, Culture and …
Loon Count Results 2015
Rarely does a Maine summer day start out with such bad weather as it did on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Unfortunately, for Maine Audubon's dedicated corps of loon counters, this was also the morning of the 32nd annual loon count. Counters reported every form of rain imaginable, from hard and steady to …
Action Alert: Final Action Needed to Advance Solar Policy
Please ask your legislators to vote in support of the veto override on LD 1649 Recently, the Legislature voted on the comprehensive solar bill (LD 1649). The good news: the bill passed by strong margins, 91-56 in the House and 35-0 in the Senate. The bad news: we don't have enough votes in …
Predicting Hummingbird Arrivals
Spring is coming and many of our most loved birds will be here any day! Thanks to long running citizen science projects we can pretty accurately predict when certain species are going to arrive. One migrant that a lot of people are already talking about and eagerly awaiting is the Ruby-throated …