Monthly Archives: October 2020
NRCM award winners
The Natural Resources Council of Maine has recognized four people for their contributions to conservation. I was particularly pleased that one of them is my friend Cathy Johnson, who did a great job for all of us who love Maine. Here’s the list of the winners. Aram Calhoun, Conservation Leadership Award, for providing her expertise and leadership […]
The privilege of deer hunting
This was my Kennebec Journal column on November 8, 1993. As the canoe slid quietly along Hopkins Stream in the pre-dawn darkness, 11-year-old son Joshua jumped when an unseen beaver slapped the water right beside him. “Wow, what was that Dad?” he asked, more exclamation than question. It was the opening morning of the firearms […]
Great stories by a female game warden
Kim Camery Millick’s novel of stories, Rookie Warden, about a female game warden are great. But that’s not surprising, because Kim was a game warden in Wisconsin before she moved to Maine and worked in the north woods as a forester. Although the book is a novel, published by Maine Authors Publising, and the central […]
Cobscook Bay Project is awesome
I was excited to learn that the Butler Conservation Fund had purchased 14 properties from Whiting to Lubec on Cobscook Bay and built trails so the public can enjoy those beautiful places. My mom grew up in Lubec and I’ve visited there nearly every year of my life. After I married Linda, we began annual […]
Duck hunting’s a love affair with nature
This was my newspaper column in 1995. You may hear gunshots in the marsh this morning. Duck hunting opened 30 minutes before sunrise. If things went according to plan, at 6 am this morning I was seated in a comfortable chair under overhanding alders, my natural blind alongside Hopkins Stream, a panorama of feathered friends […]
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is an amazing – and very timely – novel
Great podcasts by DIF&W
DIF&W has produced some very interesting podcasts. Here’s what they said about a recent podcast: The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is about so much more than fish + game, with leaders on every level changing the face of conservation and blazing new trails for a better Maine outdoors. This podcast takes you […]
Monica Wood’s new (old) book is fantastic
The Elephant Mountain Gang by Tommy Carbone
There’s a lot to like in Tommy Carbone’s new novel, The Elephant Mountain Gang, subtitled Mystery at Maine’s Moosehead Lake. I really liked that Tommy put his stories in real places in the Greenville-Moosehead Lake area, where I’ve spent a lot of time. It made me feel like I was right there with his characters. […]