brought to you by Sasha Paris
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Possible restrictions on development and land use in Maine's Unorganized Territory (which comprises over half of the state's land, across multiple counties) are meeting resistance in the far north (Bangor News).
http://bangornews.com/news/t/aroostook.aspx?articleid=163594&zoneid=175
New York Times
Residents of a California town are experimenting with using fungi to clean up dioxins in a former lumber mil site. [After the recent oil spill in San Francisco, some folks there had the idea of growing oyster mushrooms in oil and found the it worked...groovy.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/27bragg.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=mushrooms&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Another issue in the food-crisis saga: global shortages of petroleum-based (thus increasingly expensive) fertilizer. [If we could get it to work more efficiently, so zillions of tons weren't washed away and wasted...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/business/worldbusiness/30fertilizer.html?scp=1&sq=fertilizer&st=nyt
CNN
This year's bison slaughter around Yellowstone National Park was suspended after winter ravaged the herd, but it's expected to restart next year.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/half-of-yellowstone-bison-herd-dies/20080429092909990001
Many scientists working for the EPA claimed that their findings had been manipulated or misused by regulators.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/23/epa.scientists.ap/index.html
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