A once-modest winter gathering of fly fishermen has grown into an increasingly popular event.

When Friends of Baxter State Park President Barbara Bentley learned two weeks ago that the privately owned parcel beside Katahdin Lake would be given to Baxter State Park, she turned to the one person she thought could truly understand the nature of this unusual place. Maine watercolorist Evelyn Dunphy has painted there countless times over […]

Not long ago, an article about northern Maine’s deer woes caught my eye, and according to the writer, a hard-core conservative, the federal government’s listing of the Canada lynx as an endangered species is destroying our North Country whitetail herd. According to this guy, the listing has stopped trappers from snaring coyotes near deeryards, so […]

After a big tease in the form of snowstorms around Halloween and Thanksgiving, it’s been a distressingly snowless ski season thus far. The country has less than half the average snow cover over the past five years for this time of the year, and we New Englanders in particular expect some snow on the ground […]