The Talk of Maine
Return of the Iron Horses
As passenger rail expands in Maine, what should travelers expect to happen?
Seeds of Discontent
Aroostook County potato farmer Jim Gerritsen leads organic growers’ fight against genetically modified foods.
The East-West Highway
The proposed East-West highway across Maine: Gateway to opportunity or toll on the environment?
The Great Rollback
Governor LePage’s effort to dismantle Maine’s environmental protections meets strong resistance.
The FairPoint Fiasco
Who's to blame for the FairPoint telephone and broadband fiasco? More parties than you might think.
The Watchmen of North Maine Woods Inc.
- By: Edgar Allen Beem
On or about June 15 of this year, the Maine Department of Conservation will liberate more than forty thousand acres of forestland surrounding Seboomook Lake. The so-called Seboomook Unit, a picturesque forest landscape just north of Moosehead Lake, was purchased in 2003 as part of a major Land for Maine’s Future project along the West Branch of the Penobscot River. Until this summer, however, the public still had to pay for access to this ostensibly public land.
Talk of Maine
Despite wide support, GoMoos, Maine's ocean monitoring network, suffers partial collapse.
