If you look closely, especially in the garages, barns and back workshops of Maine people, you will discover people making things with their hands, talented, creative people with the gift of true craftsmanship. Pete Boucher from Hampden is one of those people. He makes boats, drift boats for serious fishermen who want a stable craft […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Tick season is here. Here are some tips
It didn’t used to be, but in many parts of Maine now, deer ticks are a reality. It’s spring and time to think about the outdoors and proper protection against ticks. Maine had 1,171 cases of Lyme disease reported in 2015. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and time to consider a tick-prevention strategy. In […]
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Outdoors in Maine: PCCA tops among many conservation organizations
Organizations come in all sizes and a variety of names: Fish & Game Clubs, Rod & Gun Clubs, Sportman’s Associations, Angler’s Alliance, you name it. And they can be found all over New England, and the country for that matter, in little hamlets and even big cities. They have been around for years. They are […]
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High-tech rifles used in hunting raises ethical debate
Few would disagree that the breakneck pace of technology threatens to overwhelm us. Recreational hunting is not exempted. When it comes to hunting ethics and fair chase, new questions flood the conversation almost as fast as cutting-edge technology. Here is a doozy. Should it be legal for a big game hunter to use a computerized […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Over-cooking can spoil great wild meat
Let me be blunt: When it comes to eating out, I am a cynical curmudgeon who prefers my own or my wife’s great cooking. Frequent patronizing of restaurants is my idea of an obligatory chore. My wife is convinced that my jaded view of restaurants is grounded in the fact that I am close with […]
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Outdoors in Maine: New junior hunting law in effect
When it comes to junior hunters and hunting safety, I am old school. A former certified hunting safety instructor and father of two sons who were brought up with guns, my boys were indoctrinated early and often in all of the protocols of safe gun handling and safe hunting practices. (Each of them, at my […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Cout marginalizes IF&W’s law book
A number of years ago, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIF&W) elected to join a national trend to consolidate and slick up its Plain-Jane hunting and fishing law book. With the help of a private publishing firm, the law book was dressed up in an attractive magazine format, complete with eye-catching graphics […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Nonresident hunters — The kiss-off
When it comes to cultivating one of its last remaining industries, tourism, it seems that Maine is its own worst enemy. Take hunting for example. In 2002, there were 41,538 nonresident hunters who bought a Maine big-game hunting license. Less than a decade later, in 2010, that number fell to 27,898. Think about that. Over […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Chamberlain chowder hits the spot, every time
Although I don’t ice fish any more (hard to find safe ice in the Florida Keys), I was once a die-hard ice fisherman and I have seen it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good days on the ice were almost always in mid-March when the afternoon sun warmed things up, the […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Thoughts on president’s gun measures
“While Rome burns” President Obama has begun his last year in office with a series of executive actions that he believes will reduce gun-related violence in this country. His critics contend that this is another cynical attempt to distract Americans from his foreign policy failures. Even if this is not the case, even if the […]