We have been having an odd visitor at our feeder. It’s a male hairy woodpecker with a difference. Instead of black and white feathers and red on the nape, many of the typically white feathers are buff-colored.

The kids and I were planning a trip to visit friends north of Lewiston and wanted to find a hiking trail in that area. That’s how I ran across a listing for Androscoggin Riverlands State Park. It’s only been an official state park since 2009, but the kids and I wished we had found it sooner. Well-marked trails, beautiful river vistas and some nice picnic table amenities had us giving the park a thumbs-up.

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” came out and sent a shock wave through the environmental world. This month the Friends of Hog Island will celebrate the awareness Carson brought to environmentalism with a play and panel discussion of environmental experts. In addition to having a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Preserve in Maine […]

Typical, small Maine trout brooks see little angler traffic, even in spring, but that rule proves doubly true in July and August, when folks turn their attention striped bass in tidal water or black bass in lakes and ponds.

In the 1970s, Maine’s aquaculture industry began putting fresh, inexpensive salmon on the average dinner table of non-anglers and catch-and-release types, and salmon farmers accomplished this feat at an attractive price — often less expensive than haddock.

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is encouraging anglers to take largemouth bass of all sizes from certain Down East waters starting Sunday.

An exotic insect, the hemlock wooly adelgid, is causing widespread mortality of eastern hemlocks across the eastern United States, where this important conifer grows in dense groves in the Northeast but occurs in sparser stands in the South.

At about the point where Penobscot Bay begins to narrow into the Penobscot River flowing down from the Katahdin region through Bangor and along both sides of Verona Island, Cape Jellison, a 1,600-acre peninsula, juts out into the bay. In colonial times it was known as Wasaumkeag Point, and the remains of Fort Pownall, built in 1759, still stand sentinel with the Fort Point Light Station, built in 1836 and automated in 1988.

It’s difficult to like the nonstop rain, flood conditions and wet basements. But across the state, the high water can end with some fast fishing as the trout come out of hiding and anglers have better access to them.