Monthly Archives: August 2019

Bear Food Study Canceled

Maine’s bear population has increased significantly in the last few years and is now estimated to be 35,000. The Fish and Wildlife Department considered several strategies to increase the annual harvest, and discussed them with the legislatures Fish and Wildlife Committee, but any decision was postponed until next year. The research has become important because […]

Too many critters killed on our roads

Last year Bob, from the DEW wild animal kingdom a mile from our house in Mount Vernon, picked up 286 dead deer, killed in collisions with motor vehicles on the roads within one hour of Mount Vernon. Bob feeds the deer to his lions. Yes, lots of wild animals are killed by motor vehicles on […]

Nothing Finer Than Family Fishing

            Here’s another favorite column, written a few years after we bought our camp.             As I cast a Brown Wulff to a Sourdahunk Lake brook trout that had risen about 40 feet from the boat, I was startled by a shout from young Joshua at the other end of the boat.             “I got […]