Monthly Archives: December 2015
New Maine Fisheries Plans Coming in 2016
Seventeen new fisheries management plans will be created in 2016 by Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, including one for Burbot. I’ll bet a lot of anglers don’t know what a Burbot is! For the record, it’s the fish we call cusk. A 15 member Fisheries Steering Committee has been selected to assist DIF&W […]
Fishing for a skunk in the back yard
Debate gets ugly about selling wild game
My outdoor news column about selling wild game drew a lot of reaction from the 4,000 people who read it, including a couple hundred responses to my Sportsman Say survey question. Let’s start there. The column reported that it is illegal to sell wild game meat in Maine, or to charge people to eat wild […]
Governor’s Aide Issues favorable report on the Land for Maine’s Future Program
Despite Governor LePage’s ugly language and complaints about the Land for Maine’s Future Program and its Board, which he called corrupt, the Governor’s aide, Jonathon LaBonte, the Director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Analysis, has issued a very favorable report on the program. The report was ordered up by the Governor and is now available […]
“My” beautiful doe was killed crossing the road to eat my apples
A total of 46,120 deer have been killed on Maine’s roadways from 2001 through 2014. And despite the fact that the deer population decreased significantly a few years ago, the total number of collisions in 2014 was the highest number in that entire 14 year period: 4,414. In that time period there were 6 fatalities, […]
This book may be your last chance to see Great Blue Herons
Let’s hope that Nature’s Way by Bud Simpson is not the only way our grandchildren will be able to see the beautiful Great Blue Heron. Bud Simpson is an amazing photographer. Earlier this year I read and wrote about his autobiography,The Cove. Bud grew up in probably the poorest family in Brewer during the Great […]
Maine’s new big game plans are all about you
The second meeting of a committee overseeing the creation of new big game management plans demonstrated how important the general public and private landowners will be to the process. For the first time, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is aggressively seeking the opinions of the public and private landowners. In addition to public […]
Do you know where your snake is tonight?
Imagine entering your home or apartment and seeing a 3 ½ foot python snake stalking your parakeets. Well, that’s just what happened to a Fairfield resident who lives in an apartment building in that Maine town. The resident called the police shortly after arriving home at 10:20 pm and spotting the snake, and a local […]
All you need to know about cooking wild game
Here’s all you need to know about cooking wild game: Kate Krukowski Gooding. From her cookbooks to her stage performances, Kate is simply the best. She serves the best beaver stew, for sure, and when she prepared and served it at the Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor in 2014, everyone – and yes, I mean […]