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Maine - You and Your Community:
What You Can Do With Others links
University
of Maine
Maine
NEMO: Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials,
http://www.umaine.edu/waterquality/Newsletter/2002/linking_land_use_to_water_qualit.htm
Description:
Maine NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials) is an educational
program for land use decision- makers that addresses the relationship
between land use and natural resource protection, with a focus on water
resources.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
University
of Maine
Water
Quality Team,
http://www.umaine.edu/waterquality/
Description:
The Water Quality team at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension
(UMCE) provides information to the public on protecting Maine's water
resources. We focus on lake and watershed issues, and work with agricultural
producers to implement best management practices (BMPs) on their farms.
Through applied research we provide growers with information on efficient
nutrient and weed management practices.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Appalachian
Mountain Club
Appalachian
Mountain Club,
http://www.outdoors.org/
Description:
The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation
programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness,
must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation
(VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement
projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively
integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Department
of Conservation
Project
Canopy,
http://www.state.me.us/doc/mfs/projectcanopy/
Description: An innovative effort to help Maine people develop long-term community tree programs, and maximize the benefits trees and forests provide. Learn how we can provide your town or organization with education, technical expertise, help in raising public awareness, and publicity to recruit volunteers.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Greater
Portland Landmarks
Greater
Portland Landmarks,
http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/
Description: Greater Portland Landmarks has worked since 1964 to increase the public's awareness of and appreciation for greater Portland's remarkable built environment. Landmarks is involved in the broader issue of urban planning and community revitalization, and all of its programs, seek to instill pride in community and to model ways for people to become involved. Over the years, Landmarks has broadened its scope of interest to include many elements that contribute to community character -- new construction in historic neighborhoods, projects impacting historic landscapes, cleaning and restoration of public statues among them.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
GrowSmart
Maine
GrowSmart
Maine,
http://www.growsmartmaine.org/
Description:
We are working to create an organization that can engage, inspire and
mobilize the people of Maine to protect our communities, our environment
and our economy from the potentially devastating effects of sprawl. We
hope to build a new kind of organization to take on this problem, one
that combines citizen involvement with technical sophistication and that
attacks the many facets of the sprawl problem - in public policy, planning,
public attitudes and the marketplace - in an integrated way.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Lakes
Environmental Association
Lakes
Environmental Association,
http://www.mainelakes.org/
Description:
The Lakes Environmental Association is a private, non-profit organization
founded in Naples, Maine in 1970 to protect the water quality and watersheds
of the Sebago-Long Lake Region. The Association serves the towns of Bridgton,
Denmark, Harrison, Naples, Sweden, and Waterford as well as Sebago Lake.
Check out the information about lake protection and GIS mapping and watershed
modeling!
Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Maine
Coastal Program
Maine
Citizen Stewards,
http://www.state.me.us/mcp/projects/citizen_stewards.html
Description:
Information on monitoring of coastal resources by private citizens.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Maine
Municipal Association
Maine
Municipal Association,
http://www.memun.org/
Description:
The Maine Municipal Association is a voluntary membership organization
of the State's cities, towns, plantations and organized townships to provide
a unified voice for Maine's municipalities to promote and strengthen local
government.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Natural
Resource Conservation Service - USDA
Maine
NRCS,
http://www.me.nrcs.usda.gov/
Description:
NRCS soil conservationists, soil scientists, agronomists, ecologists,
engineers, planners, and other specialists promote land stewardship by
providing technical assistance through teams to address surface and groundwater
quality; wetlands, riparian areas, and biodiversity; aquatic and terrestrial
habitat; and impacts of landuse changes. NRCS teams work on all of a state's
landscapes: agricultural, wetlands and riparian areas, suburban, rural,
urban centers, and forested.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
New
England Grassroots Environment Fund
New
England Grassroots Environment Fund,
http://www.grassrootsfund.org/
Description:
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is a small grants
program designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental
initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont. It provides grants of up to $2,500 to fuel civic
engagement, local activism, and social change.
Topics: What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
New
England Regional Water Quality Program
New
England Regional Water Quality Program,
http://www.usawaterquality.org/newengland/
Description:
The CSREES New England Regional Water Quality Program works to improve
water quality management through educational knowledge and extension programming
that emerges from a research base. The program builds on the strengths
of the Extension Water Quality Programs at the Land Grant Universities
throughout New England.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
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The Toolbox is a joint effort of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD)
and Penn State Cooperative Extension in Adams County.
This page was last updated on July 13, 2005.
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