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November 14, 2010

Hunting: Secrets to being an odor-free hunter

Last week I discussed ways to beat two of the whitetail’s keen senses, hearing and sight. This week we attack the most acute, their sense of smell. In order to beat this, hunters must make themselves and their equipment as odor-free as possible, and there are many ways to go about it. Let’s start with […]
Published
November 14, 2010

Outdoors Dispatches

STATEWIDE WinterKids Passports, FunPasses now available Applications for the WinterKids Passport and FunPass programs are now available. The programs promote ways for families to be active, stay healthy and have fun together in the winter. The WinterKids Passport offers all Maine 5th-, 6th-, and 7th-graders the opportunity to learn and enjoy winter sports. It offers […]
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November 14, 2010

TRUE NATURE

A nature writing class at the University of New England channels the likes of Thoreau as it encourages students to look, listen and be in touch with the outdoors.
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November 14, 2010

Outdoors Calendar

The Stanton Bird Club, owner and manager of Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary, will host a geology walk from 2 to 4 p.m. today. Join Bates College professor of geology Michael Retelle for a walk to the top of Thorncrag and adjacent areas to see the rock formations and glacial geology of this unique local feature. The […]
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November 14, 2010

Deirdre Fleming: Maine hunters split over taking of albino moose in Vermont

The albino moose shot by a junior hunter on Oct. 20 spurred a debate there on whether the snow-white bull, the stuff of legends, should have been shot, and that debate echoed here among hunters told of the rare moose shot in the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont. Hunter Chris Haskins in St. Agatha applied […]

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November 14, 2010

Allen Afield: Yes, deer driving works, but it’s difficult to do well

The regular Maine deer season opened two weeks ago for 150,000 hunters, so by this coming week, the resulting hunting pressure has forced whitetails into a nocturnal behavior pattern. In short, they bed down in thickets all day to avoid human encounters, and then they move after dark to feed and breed, a general rule […]
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November 14, 2010

Birding: New Princeton guide on dinosaurs insightful on multiple levels

Over the course of the last 500,000 years of Earth’s history, paleontologists have identified five relatively brief periods when many species went extinct about the same time. These events are called mass extinctions. The most recent mass extinction occurred about 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs, the pterodactyls, and the plesiosaurs (long-necked, marine reptiles) failed […]
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November 14, 2010

Kid Tracks: On Mount Will there’s lots to learn as well as see (like the bear claw marks!)

Mount Will in Bethel is a beautiful — and educational — trail system to explore with older kids, especially during the fall when the temperatures are cool and seasonal colors cover the landscape. The trailhead for Mount Will is directly across the street from the Bethel Recycling and Transfer Station. There is a small sign […]
Published
November 7, 2010

Allen Afield: Adding some spice to the hunter’s harvest

Not long ago, Bill Woodward, a hunter, angler, naturalist and retired fisheries biologist from Monmouth, called and sounded big-time excited. This avid outdoorsman was making a variety of sausages from 50 pounds of moose-meat burger. Just imagine. Fifty pounds of sausage links and patties make a huge pile of seasoned meats. When hunters shoot a […]
Published
November 7, 2010

Hunting: Getting around deer’s sight and hearing

A few weeks back I talked about applying scents as an active method to beat the whitetail’s keen senses. Far more important are the passive methods. White-tailed deer use three of their five senses (some hunters think they have six) to avoid danger. finding ways to overcome them, hunters can sometimes gain a slight edge. […]

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