In the fall, I had high hopes for a winter with tons of northern finches. Red spruce, balsam fir, tamarack and eastern hemlock trees were producing bumper crops of cones. These so-called mast years occur sporadically, and different tree species do not necessarily have mast years in the same years. The winter was shaping up as a marvelous […]

Sometimes it takes someone “from away” to increase your appreciation of what lies in your own backyard. That briefly sums up the Snowmobile Trail Grooming Fund Survey conducted by Dr. Stephen Reiling of the University of Maine in Orono in conjunction with the Maine Snowmobile Association Trails Committee. During the past 15 years, resident registrations […]