Category Archives: White-tailed Deer
Stuffed Venison Burgers – Cooking Wild Game
My big buck’s shoulder mount – ruined or saved?
After seven years, I tagged my first deer!
Politics, Hunting, and Sunrise on Democrat Ridge
The television was spewing hateful political ads and bad news when Steve turned it on this morning. I wasn’t long in turning it off. Facebook wasn’t much better. I’m sick to death of all this trash talk. It seems like there’s no getting away from hate and discontent in today’s connected world, and Tuesday can’t […]
Getting Reacquainted & Outdoors Fitness
Should we delay shed hunting?
Over the last three months I haven’t seen many deer or deer signs. They’ve had a hard winter with deep snow starting in December and continuing into April. Parts of Maine have had four or more ice storms, two of them significant. I drove to Grand Lake Stream on Tuesday and Houlton on Wednesday, and […]
Susan Morse: Keeping Track of Animals
No deer but it was a good year
Reader Story: Wildlife in The Basin
I enjoy being able to share readers’ stories. This is one I’d love to see myself. Lifelong friends Dave and Barb Shaw of Glenburn were out for a ride recently. Hi Robin, Barb and I saw something unusual while nosing around Veazie and Orono to see the effects of the removal of the dam. That […]
My First Buck
Finally! A bear!
Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness
Cambronne, Al. Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness. Lyons Press. 2013. $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7627-8027-3 I read Deerland with a highlighter and sticky notes in hand, marking pages and highlighting paragraphs I’ll know I’ll come back to. No detail seemed tedious or unnecessary. As a new hunter living in an area […]
I was looking for turkeys
Turkey season opens Monday morning so we’ve done a little scouting. There aren’t many out here. I’ve seen three toms (including these two) and eight hens in the last two months. The two bachelor toms were here about a week ago, fighting my Bourbon Red tom. It’s the last I’ve seen and heard of any […]