Since leaving his parents’ suburban home at 17 and moving into the woods, Eustace Conway has been preaching the gospel of sustainable, “primitive” living. But over the past three decades, those notions have clearly evolved.
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As alewife populations recover, a new economy emerges
Jim Wotton, 44, of Friendship, says no matter how many alewives hatch and are harvested, there will never be enough to fill the black hole of the lobster trap.
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ALLEN AFIELD: A plan makes trips easier
A lazy canoe or kayak float on an August river or large stream has everything to recommend it to average canoeists — sense of adventure, exercise, scenery, fishing, wildlife sightings and far more. River trips often inconvenience paddlers, though, because paddling from a put-in to take-out spot may require putting one vehicle at the beginning of the river stretch and another at the end — the old two-vehicle shuffle.
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SNAPSHOT: Eaglet rescue
District Game Warden Steve Allarie carries an eaglet today, that he captured on the banks of the Kennebec River in Chelsea.
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Moose-related accident surge likely an aberration
The cluster of central Maine moose accidents recently, including five in Franklin County and one Friday in China, is unusual and probably an aberration, but not unheard for this time of year.
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OUTDOORS: Putting his best foot forward
MADRID TOWNSHIP — Maine hikers know the name Myron Avery, if not from the Lubec native’s work establishing the Appalachian Trail in the 1930s, then from the 4,088-foot peak in the Bigelow Preserve named after him.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Central Maine top region for bass
Recently, Bill Woodward, a bass fisherman and retired fisheries biologist from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W), told me that central Maine produces the state’s best bass fishing. This man worked for DIF&W in Franklin County and Down East, too, the latter a bassing Mecca, before settling into Region B in central Maine.
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CAREY KISH — HIKING: Scenic spot well worth the trek
The pink and purple hues of sunset over Whiting Bay have faded into the gray tones of evening, and the brownish-green rockweed beds clinging to the shoreline are now one shade darker than the sky, lit up here and there by dancing fireflies.
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WHAT’S UP IN AUGUST: A month for a little introspection
This will be a good month to continue to develop a larger cosmic perspective of our home planet. As we become more aware of our place in space and how small the earth really is in the context of our sun and just our own family of planets, we will work more effectively together to preserve and increase our quality of life unto distant future generations instead of just continuing to degrade it as we have been doing in the past.
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NORTH CAIRN: A trace of September in summer
I have harvested precisely four wild raspberries.