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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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Winter
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:43

For those plants and animals that don't migrate south for winter, a lot of preparation goes into getting ready for winter. When it comes to dealing with winter, plants and animals know things we humans don't.

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Winter -- New England
Ecology/Energy
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England

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

Because spring comes so late to northern New England, things have to happen quickly and profusely. Spring is the time of year that wildlife and plants come to life again and get right to the business of creating new life.

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Spring -- New England
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England
Ecology/Energy

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Passamaquoddy Tribal Protests
Maine State Archives, Text

Two protests from the Passamaquoddy Tribe disavowing the treaty signed for them by Sabbatis Neptune regarding the alliance with the Penobscots and Malacites and pledging allegiance to the British Government in New Brunswick.

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Indians of North America Treaties
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians -- cultural relationships, traditions, adaptations
Indians -- Politics
Treaties
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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Forests as Carbon Dioxide Sponge
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:02:38

Trees take carbon dioxide and convert it into wood. As well as storing carbon, trees and plants have a cooling effect on the earth they cover.

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Climatic changes
Farming/Agriculture

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Diary of a farmer in Phillips, Maine
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Diary of a farmer in Phillips, Maine. Includes brief notations of work for the day and the weather for various times of the year.

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Agriculture
Farm life
Farming/Agriculture

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A Love for the Land
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:25:36

The legacy of Maine's farmers is the open farmland they shaped from the wooded rocky terrain. Their story is an inspiring tale of hardship, innovation, and remarkable endurance. As agriculture heads into the next century, "HOME" looks back at the last century of farming in Maine.

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Agricultural resources -- Maine
Natural resources -- Maine
Maine -- Social life and customs
Maine -- History
Agriculture -- Maine
Farming/Agriculture
Farm life-- History

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Models for Predicting Climate Change
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:02:03

There are about a dozen models that simulate various scenarios for future climate change. While these models all produce different estimates, they suggest that if you increase carbon dioxide concentration, you will get warming.

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Climatic changes
Global Warming

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Cooperative Forestry Research Unit Publications Database
Science, Dataset

A database focused on ecology, economics, and the growth and management of Maine forests. Contains the full-text of the University of Maine's Copperative Forest Research Unit's reports as well as other publications resulting from research by CFRU staff and associates.

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Forests and forestry -- Research -- Maine
Forest management -- Research -- Maine
Forests/Forestry

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