Maine Guide celebrates four seasons of sporting adventures

Tom Roth's "A Sporting Year in Maine" is a month-by-month journey in the year of a Maine outdoorsman, who counts Sebago Lake as one of his favorite fishing spots.

State approves $135 million deal to remake ski resort in Piscataquis County

The project in Big Moose Township is expected to create roughly 380 full- and part-time jobs.

For Oakland man, trapping beaver a lifelong avocation

Caleb Jones, 28, sets traps in large waterways all over Kennebec County, and helps remove beavers from people's property, where the rodents chew through trees.

Pioneering Maine outdoorsman George Smith dies at 72

He was director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine for nearly two decades and four years ago was diagnosed with ALS.

Family-friendly outdoor skills taught by UMaine Extension, 4-H and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine

Attendees at the Outdoor Family Adventure program Sunday afternoon in Augusta learned valuable skills. Another session is set for Feb. 28.

Free Snowshoe Sky Tour with Northern Skies Planetarium

School outing clubs face obstacles during COVID-19 pandemic

Brunswick-based Teens to Trails has awarded trips to clubs at Cony, Gardiner Area and Maranacook Community High schools, hoping to help students explore the outdoors.

Western Maine trails boosted by $87K in grants

Organizations in Rangeley, Bethel and Norway extending recreational access.

Teachers go wild

Canoe rescues. Lost-in-the-woods drills. Fire-starting and knot-tying classes. Inspired by a school drowning at Range Pond two years ago, a new program has educators from around the state taking to the woods to become registered Maine Guides.

Two Maine startups collaborate to get more Mainers outdoors

Tree Free Heat, which sells fire starters made of hemp waste, has a deal with Back40, which rents camping gear online.