More than 200 lined up to climb walls, carry sandbags and swing like apes.
Outdoors
Hiking in Maine: Take advantage of the National Trails System Act, and go take a hike
Celebrate the law’s 50-year anniversary and enjoy a great day outdoors.
Canoeing in Maine: Wayne’s wonderful on a fall day
Pocasset Lake and Pickerel Pond are great places to paddle this time of year, featuring vibrant fall colors and migrating birds.
Hunting: Managing deer herd is a daunting task
Winter habitat problems may lead to fewer any-deer permits in the next 15 years.
Groups seek feedback for reshaping conservation after LePage leaves office
The governor often clashed with land-protection groups over Land for Maine’s Future funding, delayed some projects.
Warning about chronic wasting disease stokes fears of hunting decline
Meanwhile, Maine’s any-deer permits are at historic levels because not enough does have been harvested.
Birding: Adding departures to arrivals
A project takes on the difficult task of determining when migrating birds leave for the winter.
Hunting: Targets and techniques vary widely from region to region
What seems normal to us in Maine may strike hunters from away as odd.
Driving in Maine’s working forestland, whether to fish, hunt or camp, requires survival skills
Flat tires are so common in the big woods, travelers simply expect them.
Maine takes emergency steps to keep out a disease fatal to deer, moose
Chronic wasting disease has been found in Quebec herds, and Maine wildlife officials say the disease, which is always fatal, could devastate the state’s deer and moose populations if left unchecked.