Very interesting and informative maps of each state are available now, showing game animals and harvesting data. Annabelle Carter Short, who writes for Minute Man Review, a site dedicated to protecting our second amendment rights, alerted me to this new information, in this message: I’m writing to you because we have just published interactive wildlife hunting maps […]
DIFW Fisheries Biologist Wes Ashe recently reported on an illegal introduction of invasive Bluegills. Here’s some info from his report: Bluegill don’t belong in Maine waters, and despite their small size and unintimidating features, they are highly invasive. The next summer, biologists returned to the Sheepscot River to get a better handle on the distribution […]
While I have seen bears all over Maine, my most amazing and entertaining encounters were at camp so those are the stories I’m going to tell today. Walking the perimeter road in Baxter Park, I often encountered bears. One time a bear walked out of the woods and into the road just 10 feet in […]
One of the projects I’ve always been very proud of is the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, which was my idea when I worked for the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine. I recruited Maine Audubon as our partner and the legislature enacted it and Governor Angus King signed it into law. I was privileged to serve on […]
When battles with wild critters move into the home, things can get ugly. And I’m not just talking about mice, although we’ve done battle with plenty of them. One winter I caught 38, an even dozen of them trapped in a kitchen drawer. And this doesn’t count the mice our cat killed. Often we would […]
DIFW is asking anglers to help them by keeping a diary of their fishing experiences. Here’s the request. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1259880504276459521
Many of Ellie O’Leary’s poems in her book, Breathe Here, are profound. They take you from childhood to old age, and many are about family. I just could not stop reading. Published by North Country Press, this book of poems is very very special, and so very real, from tragedy to endurance and survival. Ellie […]
This column is more wildlife stories featuring bats, loons, and moose, at camp. Let’s start with my bat story. I was fishing one evening in our boat and casting my fly from the back of the boat when a bat flew up and picked my fly right out of the air, hooking itself. I pulled […]
DIFW’s wildlife video of carnivors is very good. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, and you can access it here:
Throughout my life I have had amazing encounters with wildlife, and today I’m going to start sharing some of those stories with you. Today I’ll start with encounters with an ermine and a skunk. I was deer hunting on my woodlot and sitting on the ground with my back up against a Hemlock tree, when […]
