THURSDAY Winter Celebration / 10 a.m. to noon in Jefferson Hidden Valley Nature Center is hosting a snowshoe and cross-country ski clinic. Bring your own equipment or call ahead to use HVNC’s snowshoes. That same evening from 4 to 6 p.m., there will be a guided snowshoe or hiking tour of some of the trails. […]

All through the days and days of storms of one sort or another, the winds murmured and the trees uttered their various languages and fleeting moods. The clamor — if silence can be said to have something audible to say — started with the barely distinguishable sound of snowfall, a sound like the surf under […]

Another hunting season is over, at least for big game, but you’re already looking forward to the next one. And you’ve made up your mind, this is the year you’re finally going on that out-of-state guided hunt. It could represent a significant financial investment and you want to make sure that money is well spent. […]

Back in my early 20s, Maine’s official state-record brook trout allegedly came from Pierce Pond — an 8-pound, 5-ounce brookie. That weight gave me plenty of pause for thought in life, though, and here’s why. Around the time of the Civil War, an angler visiting the Rangeley region caught a 12-pound brook trout and traced […]

Around the turn of the 20th century, a popular activity in New England towns on Christmas Day was the “side hunt.” The men of the town would divide up into two sides and then comb the countryside and shore, shooting every bird (and mammal as well) they could. At the end of the day, each […]