OUTDOORS: They Love Their Loons

Outdoors

Published
August 16, 2013

OUTDOORS: They Love Their Loons

MONMOUTH -- Jeri Kahl doesn't belong to any birding organizations. And Midge Burns doesn't consider herself a birder. But both women are loon experts on their respective big-loon lakes.
Published
August 11, 2013

Fallout follows after herring protection rejected

A plan to protect the important Atlantic herring from what many believe is its biggest threat has been shelved indefinitely after years of work devising it — and even after winning support from the very vessels being targeted.
Published
August 11, 2013

Reality and the real world, ‘Mountain Man’ style

Since leaving his parents' suburban home at 17 and moving into the woods, Eustace Conway has been preaching the gospel of sustainable, "primitive" living. But over the past three decades, those notions have clearly evolved.
Published
August 10, 2013

As alewife populations recover, a new economy emerges

Jim Wotton, 44, of Friendship, says no matter how many alewives hatch and are harvested, there will never be enough to fill the black hole of the lobster trap.
Published
August 9, 2013

ALLEN AFIELD: A plan makes trips easier

A lazy canoe or kayak float on an August river or large stream has everything to recommend it to average canoeists -- sense of adventure, exercise, scenery, fishing, wildlife sightings and far more. River trips often inconvenience paddlers, though, because paddling from a put-in to take-out spot may require putting one vehicle at the beginning of the river stretch and another at the end -- the old two-vehicle shuffle.

Published
August 6, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Eaglet rescue

District Game Warden Steve Allarie carries an eaglet today, that he captured on the banks of the Kennebec River in Chelsea.
Published
August 6, 2013

Moose-related accident surge likely an aberration

The cluster of central Maine moose accidents recently, including five in Franklin County and one Friday in China, is unusual and probably an aberration, but not unheard for this time of year.
Published
August 2, 2013

OUTDOORS: Putting his best foot forward

MADRID TOWNSHIP -- Maine hikers know the name Myron Avery, if not from the Lubec native's work establishing the Appalachian Trail in the 1930s, then from the 4,088-foot peak in the Bigelow Preserve named after him.
Published
August 2, 2013

ALLEN AFIELD: Central Maine top region for bass

Recently, Bill Woodward, a bass fisherman and retired fisheries biologist from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W), told me that central Maine produces the state's best bass fishing. This man worked for DIF&W in Franklin County and Down East, too, the latter a bassing Mecca, before settling into Region B in central Maine.
Published
August 2, 2013

CAREY KISH — HIKING: Scenic spot well worth the trek

The pink and purple hues of sunset over Whiting Bay have faded into the gray tones of evening, and the brownish-green rockweed beds clinging to the shoreline are now one shade darker than the sky, lit up here and there by dancing fireflies.