The photos of seals in Silly Seals are awesome, and the captions by author Karen Morgan will make you laugh – a lot. Published by Down East Books, Silly Seals features photos by On The Mark Wildlife Photography and Steve De Neef Photography. All I can say is these guys must spend a lot of […]
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad by Joey Kelley, and published by North Country Press, is a very interesting history of Waldo County’s railroad. And before you criticize me for thinking Moosehead Lake is in Waldo County, let me inform you that this railroad never made it to Moosehead lake and Greenville. While the story […]
Even if you live on the Maine coast, you’ve probably never experienced fog like this. Barbara Winslow’s children’s book, Just A Little Fog, published by North Country Press, should have been titled, Holy Cow It’s Foggy. Barbara’s fog blankets the country, causing chaos, while a TV 5 weatherman insists “It’s just a little fog.” Nope, […]
Swan’s Island off Mount Desert recently tried to reduce it’s tick population by burning a bunch of fields. In an earlier column, I reported on the special deer hunt set up by DIFW to reduce the island’s deer population. Hunters had to sit in stands, and only shot two deer. So I was very interested […]
Last week, Bob McIntosh, president of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, announced release of the first heritage resource assessment of the famed Allagash Wilderness Waterway. There’s a lot of good news in the announcement, although they did report that more money will be needed to complete some of the projects and plans. Here’s the press […]
Perhaps the most important goal in DIFW’s new moose management plan is this one: maintain a healthy sustainable moose population while providing hunting and viewing opportunities. Don’t we wish this was easy. The plan notes that as Maine moves into a new horizon moose management impacts of winter ticks, a warming climate, changing forest practices […]
You should get a Passport to Maine Outdoors and hit the road to visit all the great places included in the passport. Perhaps you got a passport last year and know this is a project sponsored by the Land For Maine’s Future and the Maine Land Trust Network. They started the project last year to […]
Maine deer hunters killed 27,233 last year, the highest number in the last ten years. Here’s some interesting information from Mark Latti’s press release. AUGUSTA, Maine – Deer hunters in Maine harvested 27,233 deer in 2017, the highest total in the last ten years and an increase of 15% from 2016. “An increasing deer herd […]
Do you think Maine should do something to save our moose from winter ticks?
I’ll guarantee one thing about Charlene D’Avanzo’s new novel, Secrets Haunt the Lobster Sea, designed and produced by Maine Authors Publishing: you will not figure out the murderer until Charlene discloses it. You might think you know, but you won’t. I enjoy lots of things about Charlene’s novels featuring Mara Tusconi, an ocean scientist. The […]
