WEDNESDAY Baxter’s Rare Tales 7 p.m. in Portland The Maine Outdoor Adventure Club’s monthly meeting will feature John Neff and Howard Whitcomb sharing their knowledge of the Katahdin region’s history and the creation of Baxter State Park. Their new book, “Baxter State Park and Katahdin,” draws on rich collections of archival images, many never published, […]

This column is the last of three in which I will describe some of the highlights of Maine Christmas Bird Counts (hereafter, CBCs). We’ll travel along the coast today. The York CBC, held on Dec. 20, is the southernmost of the Maine counts. This count produced 100 species. The species list is a nice list […]

Recently an Internet post describing a “snow tale” reminded me of similar winter incidents that I have noticed in life, “written” in this wonderful tracking medium. Snow reveals myriad stories, even to casual observers. The ‘Net anecdote mentioned evidence of a woodland event that a poster observed during a hike — scattered grouse feathers and […]

The other morning, for a moment, it was so warm and the snow so scant, I almost felt I was lost somewhere in West Virginia. The feeling didn’t last long though, because the gusts were so strong that roof shingles were blowing off, pitching like meat-carving knives into the last lumps of snow on the […]