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Maine - Transportation
links
ATV
Maine
ATV
Maine,
http://www.atvmaine.org/
Description: A statewide alliance of ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) Clubs. Check out the Landowner Relations Report!
Topics: Land Preservation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
Bicycle
Coalition of Maine
Bicycle
Coalition of Maine,
http://www.bikemaine.org/
Description: Through safety, education, and access advocacy, the BCM is working to promote bicycling to enhance our communities, environment, and economy. We are a membership-based, nonprofit organization. Our strength comes from bicyclists like you supporting our work -- the more cyclists that join the BCM, the more effective we will be in making Maine a better place to bicycle.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
Conservation
Law Foundation
Conservation
Law Foundation,
http://www.clf.org/
Description:
The Conservation Law Foundation is the oldest and largest regional environmental
advocacy organization in the United States. We're based in New England,
where our attorneys, scientists, economists, and policy experts work on
the most significant threats to the natural environment of the region
and its residents.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Conservation
Law Foundation Ventures
Conservation
Law Foundation Ventures,
http://www.clfventures.org/
Description:
CLF Ventures is redefining environmental advocacy. Through innovative
partnerships with private and public sector clients, we combine CLF's
longstanding reputation for environmental protection with our financial
and business transaction skills. As a result, we are able to provide our
clients with innovative solutions to complex environmental problems.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Department
of the Secretary of State
Online
Rules of Maine State Government Agencies,
http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/rcn/apa/depts.htm
Description: Rule chapters in the Code of Maine Rules (CMR) are arranged by unique numbers which identify the department, departmental unit, and chapter. For example, 01-015 CMR Chapter 1 represents Chapter 1 of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Maine Milk Commission. Click on the highlighted departmental designation to reach a complete list of its current chapters.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine
Department
of Transportation
Community
Transportation,
http://www.maine.gov/mdot/community-programs/community-programs.php
Description: Links to information about community transportation programs.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
Department
of Transportation
DOT
Projects and Grant Applications,
http://www.maine.gov/mdot/projects-grant-applications/apply_for_environmental.php?tloc=5&loc=35
Description: Links to information about various grant programs and projects available for transportation enhancement.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine
Department
of Transportation
Maine
Covered Bridges,
http://www.maine.gov/mdot/covered-bridges/wooden.php
Description: Information about the preservation of historic covered bridges.
Topics: Historic Preservation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
Department
of Transportation
Transportation
Planning,
http://www.maine.gov/mdot/Trans-Planning.php
Description: Links to information about transportation planning.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
East
Coast Greenway
East
Coast Greenway,
http://www.greenway.org/
Description:
The East Coast Greenway will be the nation's first long-distance, city-to-city,
multi-modal transportation corridor for cyclists, hikers, and other non-motorized
users. Our goal is to connect existing and planned trails that are locally
owned and managed to form a continuous, safe, green route -- easily identified
by the public through signage, maps, users guides, and common services.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
Environmental
Protection Agency
New
England Car-Free Transportation Alternatives,
http://www.epa.gov/ne/topics/air/carfree.html
Description:
Whether you are a resident or just planning on visiting New England this
web site offers some great links to car-free transportation alternatives
including; bike paths, buses, ferry services, ride-sharing, subways, trains,
and trolleys.
Topics: Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
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
Maine
Environmental Policy Institute
Maine
Environmental Policy Institute,
http://www.meepi.org/
Description:
The mission of the Maine Environmental Policy Institute (MEPI) is to help
Mainers understand the importance of healthy ecosystems to their families
and communities. The Institute, an independent nonprofit organization
based in Hallowell, Maine, is dedicated to researching environmental challenges
facing the state and reporting this research to policy makers and the
public.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine
Maine
Judicial Branch
Supreme
Court Opinions,
http://www.courts.state.me.us/opinions/supreme/index.html
Description: The opinions of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court sitting as the Law Court have been published on this site since January 1, 1997. The permanent official version of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court's opinions is that published in Atlantic Reporter, 2d Series, which has been Maine's Official Reporter since 1966.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine
Maine
Snowmobile Association
Maine
Snowmobile Association,
http://mesnow.com/
Description: The Maine Snowmobile Association is an organization of over 32,000 snowmobilers (and friends) across the state and beyond its borders. Club members work locally, regionally and at the state level to promote snowmobiling as a safe, fun, family oriented winter sport. Members of local clubs accept the responsibility for most of the trail clearing, bridge building, maintenance, signing and grooming that keep the Maine trail system open. One of the clubs' most important duties is obtaining landowner permission for access, and maintaining contact with the generous people who allow snowmobile trails to cross their property.
Topics: Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
New
England Mountain Bike Association
New
England Mountain Bike Association,
http://www.nemba.org/
Description:
NEMBA is a recreational trails advocacy organization. Our mission, which
we've chosen to take, is to ride on the best trails that the world has
to offer. Luckily, most all of them are in New England, so we don't have
to travel far..
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
New
England Transportation Consortium
New
England Transportation Consortium,
http://www.netc.uconn.edu/ti/Research/index.htm
Description:
The NETC was formed as a regional approach to developing innovative solutions
to common transportation problems among the New England states. Its purpose
is to pool the financial, professional and academic resources of the region
and to use them to research and develop improved methods of dealing with
common problems in the planning, design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation,
reconstruction and operation of transportation systems in the participating
states. The program is intended to supplement, not to replace, ongoing
state and federal research activities and other national programs such
as NCHRP.
Topics: Intergovernmental Cooperation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Northeast-Midwest
Institute
Northeast-Midwest
Institute,
http://www.nemw.org
Description:
The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a Washington-based, private, non-profit,
and non-partisan research organization dedicated to economic vitality,
environmental quality, and regional equity for Northeast and Midwest states.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Office
of GIS
Maine
Office of GIs,
http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us/
Description:
MEGIS coordinates GIs activities and provides services to encourage and
guide the development of GIs in Maine to serve both public and private
sector applications. MEGIS is responsible for providing services which
ensure the quality of and access to these data. To this end, MEGIS manages
the State's GIs database to maximize data sharing and compatibility between
local, state and national programs, develops GIs standards and guidelines,
provides quality control services, and maintains public "one-stop
shopping" for digital geographic data. MEGIS operates a GIs computer
center for state agencies and provides an array of application development
and technical services.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maine
Rails-Trails
of Maine
Rails-Trails
of Maine,
http://members.fortunecity.com/railtrails/ME/index.htm
Description: A listing of existing and proposed rails-trails in Maine.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maine
Smart
Growth Network
Maine
Smart Growth News Articles,
http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/bystate.asp?state=ME&res=800
Description: Listing of news articles relating to smart growth issues in a specific state.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine
University
of New Hampshire
Center
for Integrative Regional Problem Solving,
http://www.unh.edu/cirps/
Description: The Center for Integrative Regional Problem Solving facilitates ecologically-based, innovative approaches for securing quality of life and addressing land use challenges in Northern New England through integrated research, outreach, education, and multi-disciplinary partnerships.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
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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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