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November 14, 2010

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The Stanton Bird Club, owner and manager of Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary, will host a geology walk from 2 to 4 p.m. today. Join Bates College professor of geology Michael Retelle for a walk to the top of Thorncrag and adjacent areas to see the rock formations and glacial geology of this unique local feature. The […]
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November 14, 2010

Deirdre Fleming: Maine hunters split over taking of albino moose in Vermont

The albino moose shot by a junior hunter on Oct. 20 spurred a debate there on whether the snow-white bull, the stuff of legends, should have been shot, and that debate echoed here among hunters told of the rare moose shot in the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont. Hunter Chris Haskins in St. Agatha applied […]
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November 14, 2010

Allen Afield: Yes, deer driving works, but it’s difficult to do well

The regular Maine deer season opened two weeks ago for 150,000 hunters, so by this coming week, the resulting hunting pressure has forced whitetails into a nocturnal behavior pattern. In short, they bed down in thickets all day to avoid human encounters, and then they move after dark to feed and breed, a general rule […]
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November 14, 2010

Birding: New Princeton guide on dinosaurs insightful on multiple levels

Over the course of the last 500,000 years of Earth’s history, paleontologists have identified five relatively brief periods when many species went extinct about the same time. These events are called mass extinctions. The most recent mass extinction occurred about 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs, the pterodactyls, and the plesiosaurs (long-necked, marine reptiles) failed […]
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November 14, 2010

Kid Tracks: On Mount Will there’s lots to learn as well as see (like the bear claw marks!)

Mount Will in Bethel is a beautiful — and educational — trail system to explore with older kids, especially during the fall when the temperatures are cool and seasonal colors cover the landscape. The trailhead for Mount Will is directly across the street from the Bethel Recycling and Transfer Station. There is a small sign […]

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November 7, 2010

Allen Afield: Adding some spice to the hunter’s harvest

Not long ago, Bill Woodward, a hunter, angler, naturalist and retired fisheries biologist from Monmouth, called and sounded big-time excited. This avid outdoorsman was making a variety of sausages from 50 pounds of moose-meat burger. Just imagine. Fifty pounds of sausage links and patties make a huge pile of seasoned meats. When hunters shoot a […]
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November 7, 2010

Hunting: Getting around deer’s sight and hearing

A few weeks back I talked about applying scents as an active method to beat the whitetail’s keen senses. Far more important are the passive methods. White-tailed deer use three of their five senses (some hunters think they have six) to avoid danger. finding ways to overcome them, hunters can sometimes gain a slight edge. […]
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November 7, 2010

Mark Latti: Hunters who haven’t gotten a deer yet can take heart

For many people, hunting season in Maine is deer season. You can tell it’s deer season because both hunters and nonhunters tend to wear hunter orange when out and about this time of year. In hunting circles, one of the most rhetorical questions, posed again and again, is “got your deer yet?” This is generally […]
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November 7, 2010

Deirdre Fleming: A glimpse of Maine wildlife’s olden days

Aroostook County apparently had no white-tailed deer in 1850. The debate over whether to return wolves to the state dates back to at least the 1880s. And whether there is a resident mountain lion population here has been a question for centuries. These are some of the wildlife questions that arise out of the historical […]
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November 7, 2010

Outdoors Calendar

Trail culvert clearing, 1 p.m. today at the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands in Orland. Meet at the Wildlands South Gate (Route 1 just south of the Route 176 intersection). Help protect the gravel trails this winter. If you like playing with sticks, rocks, water and mud, this is the job for you. Please dress warmly, […]

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