I haven’t brought home much venison since taking up the pastime at age 45, but it’s brought me closer to nature and my neighbors.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Invite wildlife in with a ‘lawn conversion’
Replace your lawn with a meadow of native perennials. Then sit back and wait for the birds, bees and butterflies to show up.
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Posted inNation & World
Trump signs $3 billion-a-year plan to boost conservation, national parks
The law will help create more than 100,000 jobs, address the maintenance backlog and gives permanent funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Posted inNation & World
Senate OKs plan to boost conservation, national park maintenance
The bill would spend about $900 million a year on the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund, and another $1.9 billion per year on improvements at national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and rangelands.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Trump rights a wrong by reopening marine monument to fishing
Though Maine vessels don’t routinely fish Seamounts, the process that created the monument raised important issues.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
A 36-acre lot beside Lake Auburn will be preserved as open space
Once part of Whiteholm Farm, a dairy, the land will be opened for low-impact recreation as soon as next year.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Maine Outdoor Education Program combines Nordic skiing, learning
Stearns High School students are among those benefiting from a New York philanthropist’s vision.