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FOSM Lecture series april & may

4/18/2018

 
SCARBOROUGH MARSH LECTURE SERIES
FOSM is very grateful to Cabela’s for hosting this season’s lectures at Cabela’s Scarborough, Maine store (100 Cabela’s Blvd.) in the Penobscot Room (to the left as you enter, across from the Café). Lectures are from 7:00 – 8:00 PM.
 
April 25, 2018    Dr. Bruce Thurlow, Scarborough Historical Society: Scarborough Marshlands – From Agriculture to Recreation
Learn about salt-water haying and farming in the 1800s, modes of transportation in and around the Marsh, tidal mills, and more.
 
May 1, 2018       Dr. Noah Perlut, Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England: The GapTracks Project
This project uses remote cameras to evaluate the rich wildlife community along the Eastern Trail and Scarborough Marsh.  Come learn about our local bobcats, turkeys, short-tailed weasels and much more.
 
May 23, 2018          Dr. Rachel Bouvier, RBouvier Consulting: Salt-Marsh Economics
What are the economic benefits of conserving or restoring a salt marsh? How can you use those benefits to advocate for preservation? Join economist Rachel Bouvier to discuss these issues and more.
Break for the summer. See you again in September!

Friends of Scarborough Marsh Oppose Verizon Cell Tower Proposal

4/13/2018

 
The Friends of Scarborough Marsh oppose the current Verizon proposal to locate a 100-foot tall cell tower adjacent to the marsh at 415 Black Point Road, the location of the Scarborough Sanitary District treatment facility.    The tower, in addition to destroying views of the marsh, may well pose a threat to migratory and resident birds. Cell towers in the past have been shown to distract certain migratory birds, especially at night. The birds can end up circling the towers for hours due to the light and die from exhaustion or collision with the tower.  The Scarborough Marsh is classified as an Important Bird Area.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service provides guidelines for locating of towers and other obstructions.   Among these are:
  • Placement. All new towers should be sited to minimize environmental impacts to the maximum extent practicable.
    • Place new towers within existing "antenna farms" (i.e., clusters of towers) when possible;
    • Select already degraded areas for tower placement;
    • Towers should not be sited in or near wetlands (emphasis added), other known bird concentration areas (e.g., state or federal refuges, staging areas, rookeries, and Important Bird Areas), or in known migratory bird movement routes, daily movement flyways, areas of breeding concentration, in habitat of threatened or endangered species, key habitats for Birds of Conservation Concern ….
    • Towers should avoid ridgelines, coastal areas, wetlands or other known bird concentration areas
On Saturday, April 14, from 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Verizon Wireless will be conducting a visual impact analysis for the proposed 100-foot telecommunication tower on a leased parcel of land at 415 Black Point Road. The property is further identified on the Scarborough tax maps as R103, Lot 17A and is the location of the Scarborough Sanitary District treatment facility.   This is a replacement of the balloon test which wasn’t successful.

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