Local sponsors covered lodging costs so Stratton, Spruce Mountain and Mt. Abram students could experience overnight outdoor trips at Maine Huts & Trails’ backcountry lodges.
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Step-by-step: Training through Franklin County’s local trails a lesson in endurance
Hiking local trails offers more than exercise, it’s a reminder of how much beauty and balance can be found close to home in Franklin County’s forests, hills and changing seasons.
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Take a hike to the top of Bald Mountain
Bald Mountain is a moderate, family-friendly hike with astounding views of Rangeley region lakes and mountains.
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Kennebec Land Trust to host Celebration of Land Conservation
The Kennebec Land Trust is set to celebrate another successful year of advancing land conservation throughout the Kennebec River and Lakes Region. This year’s event will take place over three days, with opportunities to learn more about the organization’s recent conservation accomplishments, latest trail improvements, and upcoming projects, and to connect with KLT staff, board […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The great moose lottery is must-see
The moose drawing, with the high anticipation level, the wishfuls all gathered around as each of the 4,000 plus names are read, is truly a “happening,” writes V. Paul Reynolds.
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Outdoors in Maine: The solar farm paradox
On one hand, fields of solar panels provide renewable energy; on the other, V. Paul Reynolds writes, their decommission will need to be figured out in 20-25 years, and they negatively affect wildlife.
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Outdoors in Maine: Can’t beat a Copper John when fly fishing
The Copper John nymph is the rage these days, and is purported to be the most-used nymph artificial in North America, writes V. Paul Reynolds.
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Outdoors in Maine: Crossbow laws have come a long way
The process was slow, writes V. Paul Reynolds, but Maine now allows the use of crossbows in most situations that only bows and arrows were previously permitted.
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Outdoors in Maine: Out in the turkey woods
Turkey hunting season is open through June 1. V. Paul Reynolds offers details of how hunters can register their harvests.
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Outdoors in Maine: The Allagash Wilderness Waterway controversy
The Maine Bureau of Public Lands has plans to build storage buildings and ADA-compliant stations, but an opposition group says the planned construction does not comply with the spirit of the mandate to keep the waterway wild.