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  • Published
    November 8, 2013

    Loon Mountain kicks off NH ski season

    Loon Mountain officials say they will open Friday after two nights of intense snowmaking.

  • Published
    November 1, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: This plan leads to deer success

    deer success If a hunter’s yardstick for success means tagging a deer most falls but that plan usually fails, then the following tactic may improve the odds. Ideally, this new approach begins with preseason scouting to find deer trails with heavy daylight traffic as opposed to strictly night use. Then, the hunter places a tree […]

  • Published
    October 30, 2013

    Maine moose herd ‘robust’ while population falls elsewhere

    A state biologist says the big beasts here are bucking a worldwide trend.

  • Published
    October 18, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: Fun hunt, good eats

    Much to dad's disgust, gray-squirrel shooting excited me more than deer hunting until my 14th birthday, and why not? As the gerunds suggest, "shooting" implies action, and "hunting" sounds a tad pedantic to a kid.

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    October 11, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: A cookbook for ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’

    Hank Shaw's "Duck, Duck, Goose" (Ten Speed Press, Berkeley) crossed my desk recently and contains everything a home chef needs to create dishes for family and friends. Shaw's work wowed me within minutes, a superb cookbook with excellent recipes, ranging from simple home-style to gourmet to myriad choices between. It goes on sale Oct. 1.

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  • Published
    October 9, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Katahdin is well worth the effort

    Thickening clouds roil over the barren tablelands, blotting out the remaining blue skies and greatly reducing the possibility of views from the top of Katahdin. No matter; it's always a thrill to be high on the mountain whatever the weather, which will do as it pleases in this harsh Alpine environment.

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    October 9, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Finally making the trip to Roque Bluffs

    As my ocean kayaking season winds down with the shorter, cooler days and decreasing water temperatures, I recently embarked on what may have been my most enjoyable day of the entire summer in an area I'd thought about exploring for a long time but just never got around to it.

  • Published
    October 4, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: Necessities for a successfulbowhunt

    Bowhunting for deer has one mystique impossible to deny. Simplistically speaking, an archer needs one tree large enough for a stand in a 15-acre wood lot and patience to sit still for long vigils, until a whitetail wanders past in bow range. That's it for diving into the sport.

  • Published
    September 28, 2013

    Trout habitat being restored in Maine stream

    Maine's wildlife agency is restoring brook trout habitat in a stream in the Moosehead Lake area.

  • Published
    September 27, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: It’s ruffed grouse season

    Rainy, cold weather in June raised havoc with ruffed-grouse production in mid-coast and central Maine, so partridge hunting in these regions should prove fair to poor this fall, and I'm betting on the latter.