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Grant to aid re-treeing effort June 14, 2021 on Environment, News
ELLSWORTH The Ellsworth Garden Club has been awarded a Project Canopy Planning Grant through a program of the Maine and U.S. Forest Services to help develop an urban forestry program for the city.
Green Ellsworth, the city of Ellsworth, Frenchman Bay Conservancy and the Garden Club as well as a group of Ellsworth citizens led by Ruth Foster are collaborating on the effort.
A critical component of the work is to understand what trees Ellsworth currently has along its streets and in public places and what condition they are in. Moving forward it will be necessary for planning to determine locations for new plantings and what the trend in canopy coverage has been over time. With these goals in mind, Green Ellsworth has created a team of volunteer tree surveyors who can extend their 2018 surveys of major streets to smaller residential streets and public areas. It will also contract out a current and historical
Schoodic volunteers sought for coastal clean-up
GOULDSBORO All next month volunteers are needed to collect plastic jugs, buckets, crushed soda cans, fishing float line, mangled wire lobster traps and other debris tossed up by the sea and cluttering the beaches and rocky shores of the Schoodic Peninsula.
Solid Waste Committee member Becky O’Keefe is asking year-round and seasonal residents in both Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor to sign up to participate in Schoodic Shines, a joint-town initiative, to scour the two Schoodic towns’ coastline and collect all manner of trash in special bags furnished by the Maine Department of Transportation and distributed for free at the Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor town offices. O’Keefe also is seeking Schoodic area fishermen to lend a helping hand on Sundays to transport collected traps and fishing gear to OceansWide’s Traps 2 Treasure recycling facility on the Walter Road off Route 1. She said disposing of damaged traps and obsolete gea
Frenchman Bay Conservancy has formally requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conduct an environmental review and issue a statement under the U.S. Environmental Policy Act before any final decisions are made on American Aquafarms’ plan to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually at two sites in Frenchman Bay.
Army Corps review of salmon farm requested
HANCOCK Frenchman Bay Conservancy has formally requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conduct an environmental review and issue a statement under the U.S. Environmental Policy Act before any final decisions are made on American Aquafarms’ plan to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually at two sites in Frenchman Bay.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy has preserves totaling 8,000 acres in a dozen Maine towns and townships, including seven Hancock County communities.
The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is currently reviewing for completeness American Aquafarms’ March 3 lease applications to grow salmon at two 15-pen sites northwest of Long Porcupine Island and northeast of Bald Rock Ledge in Frenchman Bay. The Norwegian-backed company is expected to file by month’s end its wastewater discharge permit application to discharge a total of 4 billion gallons daily with the Maine Department of Environmental Protecti