If there is a wild animal more fascinating than a whitetail deer, I don’t know what it is. Should I decide to stop hunting them, I shall continue to feel this way. Certainly the act of hunting deer year after year for most of my adult life has helped generate this fascination and appreciation for […]

The New Year is almost always a welcome event, even if we are all a year older. The slate is clean. As we look ahead it’s a lot like a field of virgin snow. As we move on, the tracks we leave will take us to unseen ground. This is especially sweet for outdoor people […]

Each year about this time, the Maine Warden Service urges us to use extreme caution before venturing out onto any ice that may be covering Maine’s waterways. This is timely advice. Last winter three night-time snowsledders all perished in one night on Rangeley Lake when they and their machines broke through thin ice. Many of […]

Sportsmen love their toys. Of course, they prefer to consider these toys as indispensable tools for the outdoors. Sometimes the best gift one can give to an outdoorsman is a tool or device that he might not either think to buy for himself or feel comfortable buying. For example, my mother­in­law always had an uncanny […]

At long last, the Maine deer are coming back! On opening day, my wife Diane saw six does in our new hunting area. According to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIF&W), all of the anecdotal evidence and scientific wildlife management indices underscore the good news. It has been a long time coming. […]