Maine moose are worth money. Lots of money. If you combine the revenues from the moose hunt, along with the tourism income from moose viewing, you are talking literally millions of dollars for this state. It is income that is spread out among outfitters, meat cutters, hunting lodges, guides, rural stores, gas stations, and many, […]

More and more Maine deer hunters I speak with are asking the question: Why not impose antler restrictions as part of Maine’s fall deer hunting regulations? The belief is that if we restrict the antler size on a legal deer we will in time be bagging more trophy class bucks with bigger racks. Other states […]

The carpenter who I helped rebuild my lakeside camp into a year-round house had a saying that he used whenever one of us made a mistake. When a nail wasn’t driven straight or a stud was cut too short, “Paul,” he would quip,” it’s only a mistake if you can’t fix it.” A rationalization maybe, […]

If you buy just a resident Maine hunting license, the cost is $25. If you buy all of the other optional licenses to go along with it — archery license, black-powder permit, turkey licenses and so forth — the cost, according to Bill Swan the director of licensing for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries […]

If all goes according to plan, Baxter State Park’s fabled brook trout waters will be stocked next fall with a different strain of brook trout ­ one more native to the area. Let’s back up a minute. Over the years, Maine’s hatchery-­raised brook trout have traditionally been the progeny of wild trout of two different […]