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In April 2026, the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s Board of Directors selected Justin Strasburger as our next executive director. Justin has deep roots in Maine’s outdoors, a profound love, like many of us, for all of us, for the state’s pristine natural resources and a fierce determination to protect the places we all love.

As host of NRCM’s Podcast “Voices for M...


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T4ME News release

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (June 3, 2026) — A new statewide coalition, Transportation for Maine, launched today at the Skowhegan Opera House in Skowhegan. The coalition of more than a dozen organizations working in economic development, transit, social services, land use,...


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Thank you to our frequent My Maine This Week photographer and NRCM member Gerard Austin for sharing this beautiful photo of painted trillium that he took recently in his hometown of Solon, Maine.

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Dark-eyed Junco songs are one of many that make up Maine’s “spring trill-ogy.” (Photo by David Small)

These last few weeks, as we’ve taken our dog on his morning neighborhood walk, one thing is clear: the spring trill-ogy is in full song. Rarely have we been out of earshot of the trilling music of Dark-eyed Juncos and Chipping Sparrows—two...


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Atlantic sturgeon leaping out of Kennebec River in Waterville, by David Preston

Atlantic & Shortnose Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchu & Acipenser brevirostrum Cool Fact: Sturgeon have been around for more than 200 million years

Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon are the only two native species of sturg...


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