The Sun Journal reported that Mahoosuc Pathways in Bethel is working to get people outside and active this winter. In November 2016, after learning the Nordic ski center at the Bethel Inn Resort was not going to open because the manager was leaving, local skiers, business owners and nonprofits rallied to create a plan to […]
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Garth Holman, a research associate in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, spoke with National Geographic for the article, “First new species of temperate conifer tree discovered in more than a decade.” To determine whether the Ulleungdo hemlock deserved to be its own species, Holman examined samples. He found that […]
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Mary Walker, director of the University of Maine School of Nursing, was interviewed by WVII (Channel 7) about increasing enrollment to meet the state’s growing nurse shortage. “Maine is experiencing a shortfall in nurses that is going to deepen across the next five years until there are about 3,200 nurses short of what we need […]
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Talks made during the Maine Agricultural Trades Show by University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty Glen Koehler and Alicyn Smart were the focus of the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. Koehler, a fruit-tree specialist who also studies climate, spoke about “Farmer Adaptation to Changing Weather.” Koehler used charts, maps and […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Piscataquis Observer article about the fifth year of Maine’s moose study. Recently, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists and a helicopter-based aerial capture crew located, captured and collared 83 moose in northern and western Maine for the study. “Over the past four years, we have […]
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Fiddlehead Focus reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, along with Madawaska Adult and Community Education, and Presque Isle Adult Education, have announced the 2018 Winter Ag School programs. All classes are free and open to the public, and will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Classes begin Feb. 13 in Madawaska and Feb. […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Newton Daily News article about an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach program that aims to help schools create gardens. The five-week School Garden 101 program provides teachers with horticultural skills and shows them how to connect gardening principles to school activities and courses, according to the […]
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Science named a study co-led by the University of Maine as one of nine runners-up for the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. In August, researchers at UMaine, in collaboration with Princeton University, announced the recovery of an Antarctic ice core that contained record-setting ice 2.7 million years old — shattering the previous record by 1.7 […]
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Sharon Tisher, a lecturer in the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Honors College; and Harold Borns, professor emeritus of the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Climate change under Trump: A perfect storm.” Tisher is a […]
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Dana Morse, an aquaculture researcher with Maine Sea Grant who works with oysters and other shellfish, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Why don’t we apply the principles of nose-to-tail eating to scallops?” as part of the “Green Plate Special” column. According to Morse, most Americans eat only the scallop’s adductor muscle […]
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