To promote outdoor recreation for Maine children, Gov. Janet Mills visited GearShare in Brunswick Tuesday. GearShare is a new non-profit that acquires, maintains and lends outdoor recreation equipment to trip leaders and nature-based educators to help connect students to the Maine outdoors. Mills, a hiker, donated a Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife Maine […]
Fish were collected and tested at these various sites and were found to contain elevated levels of PFAS that the Maine CDC has deemed too high for regular consumption.
As spring approaches and more people get back on the water, this is a good time to think about how to be safe while at sea. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about safety equipment for boaters including the new legislation that provides a way for people to safely dispose of expired flares. In […]