Monthly Archives: January 2018
Anglers break more laws than hunters
In the 8-year period 2007 – 2015, Maine game wardens gave more citations to anglers than to hunters. Anglers received a total of 4,192 citations while hunters received 2,869. More than half of the citations given to anglers were for fishing without a license. Here is how the citations broke out: 2,338 Fishing without a […]
Biggest law breakers are ATV riders, snowmobilers, and boaters
During the 8-year period 2007 – 2015, game wardens gave more citations to ATV riders, snowmobilers, and boaters than any other outdoor group. ATV riders were the worst law breakers, getting a total of 4,863 citations for violating Maine’s laws. Those citations broke out this way: 1,921 Operating unregistered ATV 1,229 Operating ATV on public […]
Moose permit swap may include cash in the future
It is currently illegal to include cash in a swap of moose permits, but that may change. The legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee has endorsed a law change that would allow those who swap their moose hunting permits to include cash in the deal. And yes, when someone swaps a valuable bull moose permit […]
Maine should act now to save our moose
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is doing exceptional research to document the tragic deaths of our moose, killed by ticks. Moose biologist Lee Kantar gets great credit for his moose research. Our moose population today may be as low as 50,000 (down from a possible high of 90,000), and moose hunting permits have […]
Travel Trocities – My taxi caught fire
Getting to and from Maine is a challenge. Many years ago I wrote the following column about this challenge. Susan Misiora works out of Albany, New York, as regional representative of the National Rifle Association. She recently told me of the latest in a long line of adventures she has encountered in trying to get […]
Some Legislators want to help road slobs
Wixson captures rural Maine in her Sovereign stories series
I raced through all four of Jennifer Wixson’s novels that comprise the Sovereign Series. After stopping long enough to write reviews of each of her first two novels, I intended to do that when I finished reading novel #3, The Songbird of Sovereign, but I made the mistake of starting her fourth novel, The Minister’s […]
Great cooking with fairies (kids)
The photos in Fairy House Cooking, published by Down East Books, will amuse and delight you, and wait ‘til you read those stories and recipes! Author Liza Gardner Walsh describes the recipes: “Simple, Scrumptious Recipes & Fairy Party Fun!” Boy, she got scrumptious right. The kids are the fairies, invading the kitchen to make everything […]
Can bees really thrive at the top of a Paris apartment building?
My neighbors raise bees, something I’ve always found fascinating, and of course Linda loves to see them in her extensive flower and vegetable gardens. So I was quick to grab the children’s book, Bees in the City, published by Tilbury House Publishers in Thomaston. Written by Andrea Cheng, the daughter of Hungarian immigrants, who has […]