Currently in Maine, Jet Skis are prohibited on 33 lakes and ponds. Given the ever-growing popularity of Jet Skis and assorted other variations of personal watercrafts, this user-conflict issue is likely to continue and, perhaps, grow in intensity.
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Where to get out and get active during the long Maine winter, weather or not
Winter during the pandemic is the time to get outside and skate, ski or snowshoe, so here are some places to go when conditions are right.
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Outdoors in Maine: The moose tick problem
The Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife is hoping more will mean less, and less will mean more.
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Outdoors in Maine: Chandler’s latest book on par with Thoreau
Laurie Apgar Chandler’s ‘Through Wooods and Waters’ recounts her adventures though Maine’s most fabled watershed with soulful prose and the razor-sharp eye of a naturalist with a journalist’s instincts.
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Outdoors in Maine: Genetically-engineered mosquitoes; are black flies next?
What if you could wave a magic wand — or hire an insect engineer — and get rid of the scornful pests for good? Would you do it?
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Free Snowshoe Sky Tour with Northern Skies Planetarium
Rangeley, ME – John Meader, owner of The Northern Skies Planetarium will lead a night snowshoe at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center the evening of Tuesday, January 12 at 6 pm. Since 1987 the Northern Skies Planetarium has traveled across Maine schools and libraries educating children in an inflatable star theater. The pandemic has created […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The history of Maine bucks’ ‘antler excellence’
A few points on what the “Hill Gould Buck” and “Chase Buck” mean to Maine deer-hunting history.
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Outdoors in Maine: Tragedies, scars and silver linings in ‘Shadow of COVID’
Thankfully, COVID cannot compromise Maine’s exceptional hunting and fishing opportunities.
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Outdoors in Maine: A good time to become a Game Warden
If you would like to dedicate your working life to safe-guarding Maine’s fish and wildlife resources and helping others, the Maine Warden Service may be your calling.
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Outdoors in Maine: Annual game dinner a taste of Maine hunting heritage
The game dinner is both a celebration of the harvest of wild meat and a friendly, but intense, culinary contest.