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Published
November 17, 2012

Deirdre Fleming: More Mainers hooked on fly fishing

It’s official. A year after some of Maine’s avid trout fishermen rolled out the state’s only fly fishing show, they’re committed to make it an annual event. The Maine Council of Trout Unlimited is hosting the second-annual Maine Fly Fishing Show to raise money for its ninth Maine Trout Camp for Youth. For years Massachusetts […]
Published
November 17, 2012

North Cairn: There’s something therapeutic in November’s bleakness

The first thing I noticed crossing the New Hampshire line on my return to Maine was that the landscape had gone all Wyeth in my absence: gray and moody — and harsh. The trees, stripped of leaves that had just been turning to gold and red when I left to go back to Massachusetts for […]
Published
November 17, 2012

Best Bets

TUESDAY Restoring Rivers and Lakes 7 p.m. in Westbrook Joshua Royte, conservation planner for The Nature Conservancy in Maine, will talk about restoring rivers and stream habitat in Maine at Sebago Trout Unlimited’s meeting at American Legion Post 62. Sebago TU chapter meetings are open and free to the public. For more information, email heinz@maine.rr.com […]
Published
November 10, 2012

Your Turn: Reader Photographs
Published
November 10, 2012

Hunting: Stealth, strategy and experience are essential

Ask the people you know how they prefer to hunt deer. I’d venture to guess most hunt from a stand, whether an elevated platform or merely a favorite stump. Next you’ll find the walkers, folks who prefer to move through the forest intent on intercepting an unsuspecting deer. It’s a low percentage option, but a […]

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November 10, 2012

Allen Afield: A fascinating book by a fascinating author with ties to Maine

Bernd Heinrich, a popular science-nature writer, has written 16 intriguing books that have fascinated me enough to write reviews on some of them — a must-read for outdoors folks who not only want to look at the natural world around them but also want to see it. This gifted naturalist pokes around the woods, observing […]
Published
November 10, 2012

North Cairn: Clocks stop, but time moves on

During the storm, overnight, the kitchen clock stopped at 7:48. The clock in the basement of the cottage in which I was living temporarily had never ticked pieces of time at all. It had been stuck on 9:35 since I had arrived a month before. But the effect of having two timepieces in a tiny […]
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November 10, 2012

Birding: Evening grosbeaks may brighten our winter

Evening grosbeaks, one of the most enigmatic and erratic of our winter finches, have been appearing across Maine this fall. We had a dozen of these beauties at our sunflower feeders in China a couple of weeks ago. Maybe these birds are harbingers of a much-anticipated irruption into New England. These robust, colorful birds add […]
Published
November 10, 2012

Kid Tracks: Disc golf is outdoor fun no matter the season

The game of disc golf is a nice way to spend a few hours outdoors with teenagers. It offers some competitive fun by throwing a plastic disc into a metal basket on a golf-like course in the woods. My family considers the game to be a hike with permission to throw stuff around. It’s also […]
Published
November 10, 2012

Operation Game Thief pays for information

The Maine Warden Service wants to remind everyone that Operation Game Thief pays up to $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest and prosecution. Since its inception, Operation Game Thief has received more than 8,000 calls about poaching. More than 2,500 convictions have resulted in more than $70,000 being paid in rewards. Callers do […]

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