Columnist V. Paul Reynolds tells a tale of a deer hunt that turned into a fight for survival.

Ice conditions vary greatly throughout the state, and while ice conditions may be safe in some spots, conditions can be very dangerous in others.

The machines can get you to camps on unplowed roads, like columnist V. Paul Reynolds remembers fondly. But he also cautions about the dangers associated with piloting them.

On the national level, there has been a longstanding consensus — backed by accumulated statistics — that the sport of hunting is not as popular as it once was, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Interestingly enough, both Maine and Vermont are generating recent anomalous statistics when it comes to numbers of hunters and annual deer harvests.