On Wednesday, March 7, I joined a great gathering at the Augusta Civic Center.�In spite of an incoming Nor’easter, lots of people turned out to a public hearing about the Trump administration’s proposal to open up the drilling in most U.S. continental-shelf waters — including Maine. On the same day, the Bureau of Ocean Management […]
Is the Endangered Species Act an endangered species?
As a biologist and the director of Maine Audubon’s Coastal Birds Project, I see first-hand how essential the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) is for protecting our most at-risk flora and fauna. The Piping Plover is listed as a threatened species under the ESA. As a listed species, that means we get the resources and […]