Cape Elizabeth Land Trust awarded grant for middle school bird project
The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust has received a 2023 Casco Bay Community Grant for a middle school unit on birds. Story here.
Community Grants support ecological projects in Cumberland, Falmouth
The grants from Casco Bay Estuary Partnership will fund sustainable landscaping workshops in Cumberland and a nature backpack program in Falmouth. Story here.
Casco Bay Coastal Academy Spring Workshop
The topic for the 3/23 spring workshop is municipal climate action planning resources for community committees, volunteers, and residents. Read more here and register here.
2023 Casco Bay Community Grant Awards
You can read more about the awards here.
Southern Midcoast Scenario Planning Exercise Report is now available on the Resources section
This report provides a summary of discussions among participants and a summary of recommendations identified as part of The Southern Midcoast Maine Social Resilience Project’s scenario planning exercise. View it here
CBEP 2022 Annual Report
See all the good work that the Partnership completed in 2022! Take a look at our annual report here.
Pingree Announces More Than $900,000 in Infrastructure Funds to Restore, Maintain Casco Bay Estuary
Washington. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced more than $900,000 in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding to conserve the Casco Bay Estuary. Read more here.
CBEP and partners are developing a new coastal ocean model
The new ocean weather report will provide three-day forecasts of water movement in the Harbor and allow us to ask questions about the effect of storms or intense rainfall on the Port. Learn more about the project and how to participate here.
Testing Living Shorelines on the Maine Coast
CBEP’s GPCOG 2021 and 2022 Resilience Fellows Madeline Tripp and Josee Stetich produced a storymap about this groundbreaking project to test Living Shorelines methods on the Maine coast. Here is the storymap.