Outdoors in Maine: The boiling frog of gun rights

V. Paul Reynolds says beware of what the Biden presidency might mean for gun ownership.

Outdoors in Maine: Does Sunday hunting in Maine have a chance?

For as long as columnist V. Paul Reynolds can recall, Sunday hunting legislation has been soundly defeated.

Outdoors in Maine: The Jet Ski debate rages on

Currently in Maine, Jet Skis are prohibited on 33 lakes and ponds. Given the ever-growing popularity of Jet Skis and assorted other variations of personal watercrafts, this user-conflict issue is likely to continue and, perhaps, grow in intensity. 

Where to get out and get active during the long Maine winter, weather or not

Winter during the pandemic is the time to get outside and skate, ski or snowshoe, so here are some places to go when conditions are right.

Outdoors in Maine: The moose tick problem

The Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife is hoping more will mean less, and less will mean more.

Outdoors in Maine: Chandler’s latest book on par with Thoreau

Laurie Apgar Chandler's 'Through Wooods and Waters' recounts her adventures though Maine's most fabled watershed with soulful prose and the razor-sharp eye of a naturalist with a journalist’s instincts.

Outdoors in Maine: Genetically-engineered mosquitoes; are black flies next?

What if you could wave a magic wand — or hire an insect engineer — and get rid of the scornful pests for good? Would you do it?

Free Snowshoe Sky Tour with Northern Skies Planetarium

Outdoors in Maine: The history of Maine bucks’ ‘antler excellence’

A few points on what the "Hill Gould Buck" and "Chase Buck" mean to Maine deer-hunting history.

Outdoors in Maine: Tragedies, scars and silver linings in ‘Shadow of COVID’

Thankfully, COVID cannot compromise Maine’s exceptional hunting and fishing opportunities.