One thing all winter sports enthusiasts learned this winter is that Mother Nature is a fickle friend, and she’ll occasionally let us down. Even more importantly, especially for skiers, it was proven to us week after week that although we might be dubious about the conditions we’d find on the slopes, we were able to […]

Spring birding in Maine is phenomenal. Many birds, like warblers and flycatchers, return to Maine from more southerly wintering areas to nest. Other birds, like most sandpipers and plovers, are passage migrants; we get to enjoy them briefly as they migrate through Maine to more northerly breeding grounds. Birding festivals have become popular in North […]

Unity College Sportsmen’s Conference and Wild Game Dinner on April 13 raises funds for good outdoors causes.

In April 2010, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) liberalized both ice and open-water fishing laws in lakes and ponds in the bottom third of the state by allowing year-round angling in most of them. Except for a handful of rivers, though, flowing waters still open April 1 and close Sept. 30, […]