Hunting
Overview
The Visit Maine website points out that "Hunting is a time-honored tradition in Maine and for good reason – the state has an abundance of game, vast stretches of rural country, extensive wildlands, and a rich sporting heritage that dates back centuries. Few states in the lower 48 can rival the variety and quality of hunting opportunities that Maine has to offer".
Table of Contents
1997 - Valuing the Nature of Maine (a bibliography including sources which place a value on the economic value of hunting to Maine)
1999 - Watching Out for Maine's Wildlife - includes discussion on the importance of wildlife to Maine
6/1/11 - Statement on Wind Power by The Maine Professional Guides Association
10/31/11 - USFWS The Effects of Turbine Noise on Wildlife
11/7/11 - Turbine noise in the tree stand
11/7/11 - "No sign of any of the animals about at all"
11/7/11 - "Pretty certain that no animals would be anywhere near the turbines due to the noise alone"
11/8/11 - "He could hear the turbines louder at his tree stand than when standing under them".
Contents
1997 - Valuing the Nature of Maine (a bibliography including sources which place a value on the economic value of hunting to Maine)
Download PDF at: Valuing%20The%20Nature%20Of%20Maine.pdf
Source: http://www.maineaudubon.org/resource/bib/bib.txt
1999 - Watching Out for Maine's Wildlife - includes discussion on the importance of wildlife to Maine
Download PDF at: Watching_out_for_Maine%27s_wildlife.pdf
Source: http://www.maineaudubon.org/resource/r_watching_out_for_Maine's_wildlife.pdf
6/1/11 - Statement on Wind Power by The Maine Professional Guides Association
The Maine Professional Guides Association urges the State of Maine to recognize and address theadverse economic impact that industrial scale wind farms can cause to Maine’s guides. The unspoiledlands, waters and natural character of inland Maine's landscape are what attract clientele to ourAssociation's doorsteps. Without these elements, the livelihood of the Maine Guide and the quality ofoutdoor recreation in Maine will be irreplaceably lost. Unfortunately, industrial scale wind powerprojects have far reaching impacts well beyond the actual project site. Their visual and audible impacts,both day and night, can extend far and are in direct conflict with the very characteristics that bring ourclients to Maine. Our current knowledge of the impacts that these wind farms may have on wildlife largeand small is insufficient to provide comfort to those of us who depend on that resource for our economicsurvival.
Download PDF at: DC_Bowers-DP4889-MPGA-DaleTobeyTestimony.pdf
10/31/11 - (document date not found;date shown is date posted) - USFWS The Effects of Turbine Noise on Wildlife
Download PDF: USFWS_The_Effects_of_Noise_on_Wildlife.pdf
Source: http://www.fws.gov/windenergy/docs/Noise.pdf
11/7/11 - Turbine noise in the tree stand
A couple hunters were talking about listening to the turbines from their tree stands. They weren't happy, they wanted to listen for deer and all they heard was whooshing. Maybe they should have listened to the FoLL?
Comment by Mike DiCenso (11/7/11)
Mike: I wonder if the people in Oakfield and Island Falls realize this and they too may care when it is all too late. I doubt the deer are even there with that whooshing.
Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge (11/7/11)
11/7/11 - "No sign of any of the animals about at all" (Note - 11/7/11 is date of posting on this site)
Excerpt: "Until good studies are done, we have anecdotal evidence such as the following about the effectof a wind facility on Backbone Mountain, West Virginia: "I looked around me, to a place wheremonths before had been prime country for deer, wild turkey, and black bear, to see positively nosign of any of the animals about at all. This alarmed me, so I scouted in the woods that afternoon.All afternoon, I found no sign, sight, or peek of any animal about."
Download PDF at: nwwpub-wildlife.pdf
Source: http://www.wind-watch.org/publication/nwwpub-wildlife.pdf
11/7/11 - "Pretty certain that no animals would be anywhere near the turbines due to the noise alone"
11/8/11 - "He could hear the turbines louder at his tree stand than when standing under them".
"A guy on the Lee Rd. commented that he could hear the turbines louder at his tree stand than when standing under them. We know this is true." - Comment received 11/8/11 from Lincoln area resident
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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