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Power Lines
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:46



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Hydroelectric power plants
Rivers
Water Power

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Letter from William Stearns to Friends of the St. John Society
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Letter from William Stearns, president of the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society, to Friends of the St. John Society in Boston. Includes reference to local objections to press releases from Boston about preserving Maine's environment. The Dickey-Lincoln dam was never built, due to lack of federal funding.

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Dams Environmental aspects
Dickey-Lincoln Hydro-Electric Project
Ecology/Energy
Environmentalism
Hunting and fishing clubs

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Letter from Robert Jalbert to Fern Stearns
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Letter from Robert Jalbert, an attorney in Fort Kent, to Mrs. Fern Sterns, regarding local objections to the proposed Dickey-Lincoln hydro-electric dam project. The Dickey-Lincoln dam was never built, due to lack of federal funding.

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Dams Environmental aspects
Dickey-Lincoln Hydro-Electric Project
Ecology/Energy
Environmentalism

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Friends of the St. John
Fogler Special Collections, Text

One page announcement from the Friends of the St. John, a Boston-based society, in opposition to the Dickey-Lincoln hydroelectric dam project. The Dickey-Lincoln dam was never built, due to lack of federal funding.

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Dams Environmental aspects
Dickey-Lincoln Hydro-Electric Project
Ecology/Energy
Environmentalism
Outdoor recreation

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Climate Change: In Our Backyard
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:45

Using close-to-home examples, the views of leading scientists come alive as they show how climate change can affect almost every aspect of our lives - and in turn, how we affect the climate.

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Climatic changes
Ecology/Energy

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Two petitions regarding the construction of a dam across the Kennebec River
Maine State Archives, Text

Two petitions giving reasons for and against the proposed dam across the Kennebec River.

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Dams
Dams
Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation
Kennebec River
Ecology/Energy
Fishing/Fisherman
Industry
Lumbering
Rivers
Shipping/Shipbuilding

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Bioinvasion
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

As human activity silently globalizes our world, our modern day ecology is under onslaught from spreading alien organisms. These plants and animals are capable of moving aggressively into a habitat and monopolizing resources to the detriment of other species. Can scientists help us win the war against this bio-invasion?

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Invasive species
Ecology

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People of the dawn
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37

The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine.

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Native Americans
Canoes and canoeing
Maliseet Tribe
Micmac Tribe
Penobscot Tribe
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Wabanaki Tribe

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Hydro Electric Power House Showing Leonard Lake and Dam. Ellsworth, Maine
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Postcard, "Hydro Electric Power House Showing Leonard Lake and Dam. Ellsworth, Maine." The location of this power plant indicates that it is generating electricity through water power. This indicates one aspect of the importance of water power to Maine's economic development.

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Dams
Ecology/Energy
Electricity
Industrialization
Waterways

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Edwin H. Eddy's recollection of his visit to a logging camp, 1880
Maine Historical Society, Text

Recollections of Edwin H. Eddy's visit to a logging camp near Moosehead Lake in 1880.

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Cutler, Thatcher & Company
Eddy, Edwin H.
Eddy, Edwin H. -- Personal narratives
Eddy, Johnathan
Lumber trade -- Maine
Lumbering -- Maine
Lumbermen -- Maine
Manuscripts
Moosehead Lake -- History

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