EMCI Press Release - Grants Awarded!

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Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI)

At its Annual Meeting on 11 February EMCI announced its grants for 2017; as  follows:

$3,000 Maine Natural History Observatory (Gouldsboro). Continuation of Glen Mittelhauser’s three–year project to develop a field guide to the wildflowers of Washington County’s islands and headlands, an essential tool for land managers in the area and for assessing areas of conservation value.  

$3,000    Penobscot East Resource Center (Stonington). Supporting a research effort to establish fishermens’ local ecological knowledge from  the Penobscot River watershed to the Canadian border to develop a foundation for co-managed ecosystem-based fisheries management.

$2,000    University of Maine (Machias). To support the fifth annual Roque Island Lecture on Environmental Conservation.

$2,000      The Tides Institute (Eastport). To support  critically needed storage units and display cases for its growing, wide-ranging cultural collections.

 $1,800 Jonesport Historical Society. To support much needed restoration of the Society’s Headquarters in an historic building.    

$1,000      Machias Historical Society. To support its active, well-managed program for digitizing a valuable collection of 19th century newspapers. 

$ 600         Tyrone Preston (Roque Bluffs).  Continuing program of offshore bird monitoring, the results to be published in the near future.

Total $13,400

George G. Herrick

President, EMCI