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Outdoors
  • Published
    August 22, 2012

    OUTDOORS: Maine high in birding

    I have written several times in this column about the value and utility of eBird (www.ebird.org). This online resource is a powerful way to share bird sightings with the world at large. eBird can be valuable if you are planning a trip to an unfamiliar location.

  • Published
    August 22, 2012

    OUTDOORS: Despite what the compass or GPS says, good plans can always go south

    Murphy never met a boat he didn't like. I'm not a pessimist, just a realist. Spend enough time around boats, and something is bound to go awry.

  • Published
    August 18, 2012

    OUTDOORS: Shooters take aim in One-Shot East Shoot

    AUGUSTA -- Ashley Hamilton stared down the barrel of her .22 caliber Cooper rifle, her target 50 yards away, and got into a zone.

  • Published
    August 18, 2012

    ALLEN AFIELD: It’s August, time to start scouting deer

    Did someone mention late summer deer scouting?

  • Published
    August 10, 2012

    ALLEN AFIELD: Gray fox sighting causes a stir

    One recent dawn, still plenty dark with the first sliver of saffron light on the horizon, I opened the front door to let out our yellow Lab to do her morning duties.

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  • Published
    August 4, 2012

    North Cairn: This forest so sublime is home

    Of all the earthly things that please me these days, none surpasses the sounds rising out of the sunset silence, the natural emptiness interrupting nothing on the ocean or the bay’s far coast. The lingering of the grasshopper in the unclipped grass stops me, and I listen for the disordered chorus of the crickets as […]

  • Published
    August 4, 2012

    Deirdre Fleming: A day to honor Baxter, with stories from an outdoor-loving president

    When Governor Baxter Day is held in two weeks in Portland, a more famous conservationist will share in the celebration of the governor’s legacy. And when Teddy Roosevelt seemingly speaks to us from the grave, he’ll tell stories about his time in Maine and how it was a time that shaped his life, perhaps even […]

  • Published
    August 4, 2012

    Hog Island Camp: The rebirth comes to life

    A unified effort between various groups is taking a camp steeped with history and making it a valuable spot to join with nature again.

  • Published
    August 4, 2012

    OUTDOORS: Campground turned classroom

    OQUOSSOC -- If Erin Hulyk's family stopped coming to Cupsuptic Lake, she would lose a lot of what summer means to her. The 8-year-old from Massachusetts said she would lose out on fishing with franks, swimming in a lake, feeding the ducks and visiting with her chipmunk friend, "Stubby."

  • Published
    August 4, 2012

    OUTDOORS: Appalachian Trail’s 75th anniversary a fine reason to celebrate

    When Benton MacKaye proposed the Appalachian Trail in 1921, he envisioned a long trail extending from Georgia north to New Hampshire's Mt. Washington. Were it not for the dogged determination of trail pioneers like Arthur Comey, Arthur Perkins, and Maine's own Myron Avery, that's where it might have ended. Instead the trail was pushed on through the wilds of the Maine woods. And on Aug. 14, 1937, the final two miles of the 2,000-mile AT were opened by a Civilian Conservation Corps crew on the remote ridge between Spaulding and Sugarloaf mountains in western Maine. The AT was complete, and its northern terminus was Katahdin!

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