Maine State Library Digital Maine

Conservation Newsletters Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

10-1-1992 Bulletin: Information for Maine Department of Conservation Employees, October 1992 Maine Department of Conservation

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalmaine.com/conservation_newsletters

Recommended Citation Maine Department of Conservation, "Bulletin: Information for Maine Department of Conservation Employees, October 1992" (1992). Conservation Newsletters. 39. https://digitalmaine.com/conservation_newsletters/39

This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry at Digital Maine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Conservation Newsletters by an authorized administrator of Digital Maine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. October 1992 @ OJf!L !L fEUD !M Information for Maine Department of Conservation Employees

Commissioner's Column Gordeen Noble and Phil Farr E~chdayblings . new Named State Park Managers of the Year headij.llesaboutjobs and the Gordeen Noble and Phil Farr have been named "1992 Maine State future of the economy. both in Park Managers of the Year," according to Herb Hartman, director of the the u,s, ·and here in Mrune...... Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation. This attentiongtves•each ofus Hartman, who presented the award during the annual fall an opportunity to helpothers meeting of state park managers, said the two career park employees appre9iate the importance of were selected from among the managers of all state parks and historic natural resources to this state's sites administered by the department to share the 1992 award on the econoiny and our future. basis of professionalism. initiative and self-improvement. Much attention iS focused " Faced with diminishing resources at their disposal, aging on education. training, the facilities and greater public demand, state park and historic site man­ service sector and high tech agers have an increasingly difficult task. All managers have been industrie~ asbeing·keysto the resourceful in keeping their facilities accessible, safe and attractive future. these are highly impor~ under these difficult circumstances: however, the dedication, hard work tant ~but the actualfounda­ and creatiVity that Gordeen and Phil have demonstrated this year make Uon which supports our state them the desetving recipients of the 1992 award," Hartman said. economy remains the natural Gordeen is the manager of Range Ponds State Park in Poland: resource .. based industries. It is Phil manages Holbrook Island Sanctuary in Brooksville. estimated•· these ··industries Noble began her park management career with the bureau in . tpgether ptoVide approXimately 1982 and has worked at Laudholm Farm and Sebago Lake State Park. fifty p~tcent oftotaJ state In 1988, she was promoted to her first park manager position at Ferry economic activity. Forest Beach State Park in Saco. In 1990, she became manager at Rang~ products industries. tourism/ Ponds. recreation businesses, and Noble graduated from Windham High School in 1972, attended · industries thatdepend on the University of Maine at Farmington, and is currently enrolled at the mineral and·water resources, University of Southern Maine (USM). She is a graduate of the Conser­ plus agriculture and commer­ vation Officer Training Academy. She and her husband Charles reside cialfishing proVide a substan~ in Gorham and have two children, Chelsie, a freshman at USM, and tial portion ofthe J.ncome Maine Chip, a senior at Gorham High School. people earn and the revenues Range Ponds State Park provides swimming and other day-use which support state govern­ recreational opportunities in the Lewiston-Auburn area. Approximately merit; · 90,000 people visit the 750 acre park each year. DOC programs play a Phil Farr began his career with the Department of Consetvation direct and·crucial role Ih eyery in the Bureau of Forestry, transferring to the Bureau of Parks and resource-based ind:ustry. Every Recreation in 1977. He worked at Popham Beach and Cobscook Bay program m this departt:llent In State Parks. In 1979, he began work at Holbrook Island as a ranger some way supports these and was promoted to manager in 1987. industrieswith direct service, Farr received an "Outstanding Supervisor Award" from the investment; or information Hancock/Penobscot Counties Training and Development Corporation n~eds. l'm sure you can think and the Private Industry Council in recognition of the work he did with of severalways which your Summer Youth Employment Training Program crews at Holbrook Island prograin··assists·and··supports this year. these businesses. Imagine then A native of Blue Hill, Farr graduated from Brooksville High the total contribution of all School in 1956. He and his wife Patricia reside in Brooksville. Farris a programs inthe department as . former Hancock County deputy sheriff and Brooksville fire chief. He is awh()le. a member of the Brooksville Planning Board. Despite the emergence of Holbrook Island Sanctuary is on the east side of Penobscot Bay new industries. natural re ~ south of Bucksport. This scenic natural area of upland forest . inter­ source-based businesses and Udal zone and meadow proVides opportunities for hiking and the study industries will continue to and appreciation of nature. dominate Maine's value of The sanctuary includes mile-long Holbrook Island in Castine ... product: thus,.itis clear that and a 1,200 acre parcel on the mainland in Brooksville adjacent to the ·· for Mafrie to have a strong island. ApproXimately 15,000 people visit the sanctuary each year. economy in thefuture there ·must be adequate support for ·· tb.eselraditional·· ihdtist:rJes. Budget Update That means adequate support As this BUllETIN went to print, the department was scheduled is needed for state for its first meeting with the Budget Office on the reductions needed government's hatural·resource to operate in FY 94 and FY 95 at our current FY 93 funding level. progra,ills. · Because departments must absorb increased costs in order to We Willbe developing stay at the FY 93 level, we are required to make significant cuts in .Jt1rthei:Jnfonnationto help programs to meet that level. These cuts will be discussed at the (:lc~Clsi<)h:.makers and the public meetings as well as any additional cuts which may be required. morefully appreciate these Additional information will be provided as it becomes available. connections. JW~~~clO~

•·1" •' , , ..._ , ., ,,..,,,,, I •• ' ,., ~-----~.·· ------Kim Pierce to Ken Spalding Receives Conservation Notes Coordinate '92 MSECCA Sierra Club Award MGS geologists Woodrow B. Kim Pierce of Administrative MCC Director Ken Spalding Thompson and Thomas K. Services is DOC's '92 MSECCA has received the Maine Group of Weddle recently assisted re­ coordinator. "MSECCA is an the Sierra Club 1992 Maine searchers from the University of effective way for each of us to help Environmentalist in Government Maine and the Maine State Mu­ provide services to those who rely Service Award. seum in the search for woolly on them. Because we can accom­ The award was presented in mammoth remains in plish so much by working to­ recognition of Ken's dedication Scarborough. •• Colleagues and gether, your support for MSECCA and commitment to the Maine friends gathered for a surprise is very important, especially this Conservation Corps. celebration honoring Fred Todd's twenty years of dedicated service year when the need is so great," Fire Overhead Commissioner Meadows said. with the Maine Land Use Regula­ Training Conducted tion Commission. •• Steve Jim Lord and Oliveri represented the Bureau of The Maine Forest Service Public Lands at the annual Ralph Wilkinson Cited Fire Control Division recently Submerged Lands Management Jim Lord and Ralph conducted a simulated fire exer­ Conference. •• Forest Ranger Wilkinson have received 1992 cise at the Penobscot Conserva­ Charlie Platt of Millinocket Maine Bureau of Parks and tion Club in Brewer. Forest fire appears in a fire danger warning Recreation Outstanding Service control professionals from Maine, public service announcement that Awards. In presenting the New Hampshire, Vermont. Massa­ wUl be televised next year. •• awards, Herb Hartman, BPR's chusetts. Rhode Island, New District Forest Ranger Steve Day director said: Brunswick, and the U.S. Forest has produced a 45-minute video "Jim Lord is a motivated, Service were familiarized with the highlighting the major 1992 fires. self-starter whose initiative and Incident Command Organizational This video, which has some efficiency help the bureau accom­ System during the exercise. Dick outstanding footage of the Cold plish essential maintenance tasks Mullavey, Executive Director of Stream and Allagash fires, is at great cost savings. Jim's can­ the Northeast Forest Fire Com­ being shown for the first time at do approach is especially impor­ pact, and Ted Shina from Dia­ the Maine Forest Service Fryeburg tant at this time when money for mond Occidental Woodlands, also Fair display. •• Andy Mendes essential maintenance is practi­ attended. attended a "Interviewing Tech­ cally non-existent. and while the Employees Attend niques" course and will train need to maintain park equipment other forest rangers in the tech­ has never been more important. Methods Course nique during annual winter " Ralph Wilkinson, whose Department employees put a training. •• Forest Rangers Jay television presence in public lot of hard work into producing Bernard, Jon Blackstone, Jeff service announcements has and giving 20-minute presenta­ Currier, Tim Post, Ritchie contributed to the success of the tions on subjects such as the "18 Hafford, Art Holman, and bureau's reduce, reuse and Situations that Shout Watchout Ranger Pilots Otis Gray and recycle program. has distin­ on a Fire," and "Safety in a State Scott Bates have received Forest guished himself as a caring and Park" during the Methods of Practices Act training from MFS dedicated park ranger. Ralph has Instruction Course they attended foresters. •• Marie Drew, who shown his personal commitment recently at the Maine Criminal retired this spring, has returned to the safety of state park visitors Justice Academy. as a SERVE/Maine volunteer. by becoming an emergency · Attending were: Jay Bernard, Marie is helping the MCC and medical technician and a first John Blackstone, Jeff Currier, SERVE/Maine. •• Tom Charles, aid/ CPR instructor. Ralph's Tim Post, Ritchie Hafford and BPL forester, recently presented a concern for people was demon­ Scott Bates, MFS; Andy forest management workshop for strated this year when on the way Huchinson, Julie Flanagan, Tom Unity College students-including home from work he climbed into a Coon, Kim Lynch, Stu Wagner, CCCM team members-at Dodge burning car, rolled it away from a Ralph Wilkinson, John Cooke and Point in Newcastle. •• Park Man­ building and took charge in Leland Griffin, BPR agers Dan Bell and Scott Woo­ putling out the fire." druff wUl teach a first aid and Fort McClary Featured CCCM Teams Working CPR certification class for the The College Conservation USM CCCM team at Sebago Lake Fort McClary State Historic Corps of Maine (CCCM) has State park this Friday. •• A team Site in Kittery Point was show­ begun work at locations near of L.L. Bean employees, under the cased during a broadcast of Unity College and the University supervision of BPL's Steve Spen­ "Celebrating Maine" on WGME­ of Southern Maine(USM) in cer. recently constructed two TV's "First News" in late Septem­ Gorham. The USM team is water access campsites on ber. working on the Bureau of Public Mooselookmeguntic Lake. Bean Anchored by Felicia Knight, Lands' Pineland Management volunteers helped Steve survey the half-hour news show included Unit in New Gloucester and at the lake's shoreline this summer on-site interviews with Fort USM's Recycling Center in Port­ to find the best locations for McClary Manager Tom Collins. land. The USM team will be campsites. •• The Outlet Road on The program was broadcast live working at Wolfe's Neck Woods BPL's Seboeis Unit is being from the fort's scenic 27-acre State Park and Bradbury Moun­ reconstructed. The work is location on the Piscataqua River. tain State Park later this month. scheduled for completion in This is not the first time Tom The Unity College CCCM October. •• There have been and Fort McClary have been in team is working at Tanglewood 4- nearly 35% fewer forest fires the spotlight. The fort has been H Camp in Lincolnville, the Unity compared to last year at this time. featured on WCSH-1V's "People, Recycling Center and BPL's Dodge As of the end of September, there Places and Things" and will Point Management Unit in had been 569 fires compared to appear in the new film "Bed and Newcastle. 910 for the same period last year. Breakfast" starring Roger Moore.

-·----.------