Monthly Archives: September 2020
Important info if you’re headed to the north woods
You should help keep Chronic Wasting Disease out of Maine
Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument by Eric Hendrickson
Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument by Eric Hendrickson is a fascinating history of the land designated as the National Monument. Before it was designated a national monument, I hiked and fished that area (and yes, those waters are filled with brook trout). It’s a very beautiful part of Maine, just east of Baxter Park. […]
Sandra Neily’s new novel puts you right in the Maine woods
We must stop using lead ammunition
DIF&W is encouraging hunters to use non-lead ammunition, for good reasons. They have sent out two posts with lots of good information about this issue. Here are a few things they said. We know that non-lead alternatives are not just safer; they’re just as effective as lead (or more so) at a very similar price. […]
DIFW using dogs to find evidence
My favorite chapter in Art Wheaton’s Grouse Country was about outhouses
Art Wheaton’s passion is hunting grouse and woodcock, and his book, Grouse Country, has plenty of those great stories, but there is a lot more to this book than that. As he explains, “What was most full was not our game bags, but our memories that now runneth over. We reflect and know birds just […]
Intriguing book about a young man’s challenges
Jim Nichols new novel, Blue Summer, published by Islandport Press, is intriguing and will keep you reading right to the end. The story is about a young man who has suffered a lot in his life, including an abusive step-father and the tragic death of his sister who fell to her death while reaching out […]
This book about spiders made me cringe
I hate spiders. So when I received Dana Wilde’s book, A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine, with an ugly yellow spider on the cover, I cringed. I wasn’t sure I could read and write about this book. But the book turned out to be very interesting, with lots of information about spiders. And despite […]