What can we expect from the next legislature?

33b02751-d8ae-4388-9a66-b74b50185e5aThanks to all who told us they enjoyed the lively discussion about the last legislative session’s accomplishments and disappointments, featured in last episode of our TV talk show with two outstanding state legislators: Senator Tom Saviello and Representative Bob Duchesne.

And I’ve got great news for you. Tom and Bob are featured in the new edition of Wildlife, airing for the first time tonight.

On this show, we focused on major outdoor and environmental issues in the 2017 legislative session. From solar and wind power to mining, hatcheries to stream and brook spawning habitat protection, exotic animals to problems in the Maine Warden Service, we covered a lot of ground in this half hour.

Rep. Duchesne was House Chair of the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Senator Saviello was Senate Chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, where Rep Duchesne was also a member. And Senator Saviello also served on the Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee. So we had a lot to talk about!

Each edition of Wildlife is aired on Time Warner cable station 9 on Tuesdays at 7 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 pm, and Sundays at 9:30 am. Each edition airs for two weeks. You can also access the show, including previous shows, online at www.vstv.me.

 

George Smith

About George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.