joeydokes
joeydokes t1_it8i3mg wrote
Reply to Is there any reason Maine couldn't do this? Oregon's entire coast was declared open to public access in the 1960s. by ppitm
> The coast is completely privately owned.
Worse, for the public, is that the Maine Supreme Judicial Court previously ruled that private ownership stretches to the low-water mark. So you can't even walk along the beach.
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/docs/public-shoreline-access-in-maine.pdf
joeydokes t1_it81h87 wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it81fhc wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it81drj wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it81d9l wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it81cep wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it81ae8 wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it817y9 wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it817h3 wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it816i2 wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it814tf wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it8141f wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it813jr wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_it8125a wrote
Reply to Eagles / Hawks in Maine : visiting Portland in a few weeks for our annual autumn trip and would love to do some bird watching especially for eagles / hawks / herons. Any recommendations ? Have only been to Scarborough marsh area so far. by wearsbluescrubs
Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge
joeydokes t1_isk3b3b wrote
Reply to comment by gulfofmainah in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
You're correct that I'm over-generalizing and my apologies. My impression, spending far too many hours in harbors talking with lobstermen left me with a different impression. Yes, many are educated and well-spoke; but many/most stated they weren't cut out for classrooms and barely eeked out H.S.
I'm not saying anyone needs college , I was saying that the trades you mentioned are perfectly fine; my point being that I didn't think any given area could handle that many tradesmen w/out other economic improvements just to be able to hire them and keep them in their trade.
joeydokes t1_isfgd14 wrote
Reply to comment by redcoat777 in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
There's already a big scalloping industry. The DownEast institute on Bealls island is researching clams and mollusks, but nobody really likes clamming because wading in the muck sucks; even winkling is more attractive :)
joeydokes t1_isffn94 wrote
Reply to comment by OniExpress in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
Most of the kids in these small fishing communities only graduated high school by the skin of their teeth. Their future is in the trades, but there wouldn't be enough jobs to accommodate them.
My understanding is that it takes a minimum of 300 traps to break even; most working boats have 4 to 500 traps and are still in the red. The waiting list for a license (and 300 traps) is 8 years. So if you start your kid off at age 8 with a permit, by 16 years old they can become a working lobsterman.
A better education is the only way out, while most natives to the area are functionally illiterate.
joeydokes OP t1_itjbql6 wrote
Reply to comment by Guygan in Bangor - Crows on the roost - are you on their flight path? by joeydokes
Didn't occur to me to search reddit for crow info.
So thanks for that! 84K cacklers :)
my subject should have been:
Bangorite ISO crowbro !