Caterpillar infestations reported in Maine towns
Bangor Daily News - 5/13/2010. Associated Press – Augusta: The Maine Forest Service is warning residents in five towns to be alert to widespread infestations of browntail moth caterpillars. Officials say the caterpillars are most prevalent in Topsham, Bath, West Bath, Brunswick and Bowdoinham. |
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The end of the bluefin tuna
Zester Daily - 5/13/2010.By Jake Tilson – When any species achieves culinary-icon status, it's days seem to be numbered. To compound the problem, sushi – and tuna with it – became a global craze. Although Japan imports 80% of every bluefin caught, the rest of the world consumes what's left. Industrial commercial fishing has decimated bluefin tuna stocks in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Pacific. Bluefin have declined to about 15 percent of historic levels and have been placed on the Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN. |
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Frost hits Maine’s berry and apple crops
Bangor Daily News - 5/12/2010. By Sharon Kiley Mack – Machias: It’s a “nervous time” over at Albert Tate's third-generation strawberry farm in Corinth. Pockets of frost hit much of Maine on Monday night, and another frost was predicted for Tuesday night. With many berry bushes and fruit trees blooming two to three weeks earlier than usual this spring, a dangerous frost could easily wipe out a harvest. |
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Orono approves zoning for chickens
Bangor Daily News - 5/12/2010.By Jessica Bloch – It was egg-cellent news for certain residents. The Town Council voted Monday night to amend town ordinances to allow people who live in areas zoned for medium density residential uses to keep and raise up to six domesticated chickens, a move the council has said is in line with a public interest in locally grown food. |
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