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August 4, 2012

Birding: It’s near fall, but migration is already under way

We are all accustomed to misleading or even paradoxical phrases in our conversations that we often use without thinking. Shouldn’t a “near miss” be a glancing collision? Have you ever gotten a “free gift”? Biology is not immune from such phrases, and “fall bird migration” is at the top of my list. Even though none of us wants […]
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August 4, 2012

Allen Afield: Family and friends can make a hike a lifelong memory

Hiking picks up in a Maine summer, and often the whole family participates, creating lifetime memories that may last decades and maybe more. When a family stays in shape over generations, a Saturday hike may include children, parents and grandparents. Also, families into good health often have one or two generations that remember walking along […]
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August 4, 2012

Best Bets

DAILY Learn about nature / 2 p.m. in Freeport Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park is offering free nature programs daily through Labor Day. Programs last an hour and are suitable for all ages. Meet at the benches at the park’s second parking lot. Today’s program is about the ecology along Casco Bay. Monday’s seminar will […]
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August 4, 2012

North Cairn: This forest so sublime is home

Of all the earthly things that please me these days, none surpasses the sounds rising out of the sunset silence, the natural emptiness interrupting nothing on the ocean or the bay’s far coast. The lingering of the grasshopper in the unclipped grass stops me, and I listen for the disordered chorus of the crickets as […]
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August 4, 2012

Deirdre Fleming: A day to honor Baxter, with stories from an outdoor-loving president

When Governor Baxter Day is held in two weeks in Portland, a more famous conservationist will share in the celebration of the governor’s legacy. And when Teddy Roosevelt seemingly speaks to us from the grave, he’ll tell stories about his time in Maine and how it was a time that shaped his life, perhaps even […]

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August 4, 2012

Hog Island Camp: The rebirth comes to life

A unified effort between various groups is taking a camp steeped with history and making it a valuable spot to join with nature again.
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August 4, 2012

Josh Christie: Rachel Carson deserves thanks for her contributions

Fifty years ago, Houghton Mifflin published Rachel Carson’s seminal “Silent Spring.” The book, a damning look at the environmental effects of pesticides, was a national bestseller. Carson gets much of the credit not only for a national ban of the pesticide DDT in the 1970s, but with the birth of the modern environmental movement. On […]
Published
August 1, 2012

Saltwater Fishing Report

OFFSHORE Sea surface temperatures in the western Gulf of Maine are in the mid to upper 60’s. Groundfishing continues to be good on most all mid and offshore humps. Catches include pollock, haddock, cod, white hake, cusk and redfish. Make sure to fish a fly (hot pink, yellow) a couple inches above your Norwegian jig. […]
Published
July 28, 2012

A natural fit for nature

Cupsuptic Lake Park and Campground in western Maine combines the simple life and an environmental message.
Published
July 28, 2012

North Cairn: Migration to Maine only natural

When I knew I was coming to live in Maine and before I actually found my cabin-like A-frame in the country, most of my friends thought it would be a good fit: a nature lover, living on a rocky coast, studying the vast ocean and the limits of the horizon. But every once in a […]

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