With hiking and backpacking season around the corner, be ready to hit the trail by using mud season to make sure all your gear is in proper working order.

Birders will always flock with news of a rare sighting, but based on science that doesn’t increase chances of another rare sighting.

The shift in the timing of signs of spring provides evidence of a changing climate in Maine.

Wendy Weiger has opted to live in isolation this winter in a one-room cabin with no electricity and no indoor plumbing.

Eight miles of trails provide hikers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers year-round access at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Mars will pass close by the Pleiades star cluster and Venus will be the only planet not visible this month.

There is plenty of slang and jargon shared among those in the birding community.

Only time will tell if the trend translates into more backcountry skiers in remote wilderness areas.