The following sequence of photographs were sent to me by a reader that he captured in his trail camera in the Freeport area of southern Maine. In the first photograph is a snapshot of a mother deer and her newly born fawn, taken on June 13, 2011. Click to Enlarge Not easy to see, but [...]
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June 25th, 2011
I Know It’s Only Weather
I’m sitting here feeling like a piece of shit today and am reminded of one of the reasons I opted to move to the Sunshine State – DEPRESSION. For the third day in a row of rain and cold (50 degrees) I have no interest in doing anything. I’m trying. Related ArticlesIs NOAA Smarter Than [...]
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Pacific Legal Foundation Petitions Supreme Court in Regards to Delta Smelt
The Pacific Legal Foundation has petitioned the United States Supreme Court in hopes the high court will listen to arguments pertaining to the implementation of the Endangered Species Act that has withheld irrigation water to a vast area of California, destroying jobs and running ranchers out of business. In what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
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Rain, Rain: Deja Vu All Over Again
It’s been raining here quite steadily for two full days now and the forecast calls for another day or two of rain and then showers until the beginning of next week. I’ve been pounding away on my keyboard here all day today because yesterday was a day away from camp (escape the rain). I did [...]
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Wolves in Maine – Part VI – (Did Wolves Leave Maine and Why?)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V In the book “Early Maine Wildlife” – Historical Accounts of Canada lynx, Moose, Mountain Lion, White-Tailed Deer, Wolverine, Wolves, and Woodland Caribou, 1603 – 1930 – by William B. Krohn and Christopher L. Hoving, as the reader progresses through the chronological order in which the [...]
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Scott Ellis Turkey Calling: “The Whine” aka “Feed Call”
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RMEF Moves to Protect Appellate Rights in Wolf Decision
Editor’s Note: Below is a press release sent out by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF). It is not the opinion of this editor to be in agreement with the RMEF’s choice to file notice of intent to appeal any decision made by Judge Donald Molloy on the constitutional legality of the Budget Rider Bill [...]
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Hikers Rescue Deer Fawn From Attacking Fisher
Here’s one the predator protectors of the world will deny ever happened. In Maine a family was out hiking when they heard a blood curdling screech coming from nearby in the woods. Upon investigation they discovered a 2-week old fawn being mauled by a fisher cat. You can read the rest of the story here [...]
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Coyote Attacks Kids Playing on Trampoline
So tell me. In a few more years, as misinformed people in this country continue to protect predators like this and attacks on kids and humans become more and more prevalent, will these people still be telling us how rare it is for predators to attack people? Most Commented PostsAutopsy Pretty Much Rules Out [...]
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Wanted: 1 Million Sentries
More Sentries Being Recruited (Columbus, OH) – When you buy a hunting license, you help fund programs that provide hunting opportunities. The same applies to fishing and trapping. Sometimes, however, you need to invest more, to have more. One of the best—and most important—investments you can make for your outdoor sports future could be the [...]
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There’s A Need to Better Understand the Motives of Environmentalists
Today in Townhall Magazine, Katie Keiffer writes an article about how entrepreneurship is much better at saving endangered species and dealing with environmental issues than environmentalists are as well as government agencies. She cites for example how mathematical modelling, because of it’s unreliability, is causing more harm to not only animals but the environment and [...]
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Exploring Maine Camp After Long Winter
It takes awhile after getting to summer camp in the woods of Western Maine, to begin to get settled in and then find some time to do some exploring to see what has been going on and how things survived the harsh winter. More than likely unapproved by the environmentalists, but over the past several [...]
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Behind the Green Curtain: Environmentalism vs. Property Rights
This link was provided in a comment on another thread. After viewing it, I deemed it was worthy of embedding on this website. This should be mandatory viewing. Related ArticlesJim Beers: Two Lessons From Montana (0)What Should Be Perceived As Obvious Bias In The Wolf Hearings (2)Wolves: They’re Not Just for Rural Americans Anymore, Part [...]
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Dead Center
Via Critter News – One of the best marksmen in the FBI was passing through a small town. Everywhere he saw evidences of the most amazing shooting. On trees, on walls, and on fences there were numerous bull’s-eyes with the bullet hole in dead center. The FBI man asked one of the townsmen if he [...]
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Quote of the Year About Political Gerrymandering
An email that I received today contained one of the best quotes I’ve heard in a long time. It’s not that it is just a choice quote but is extremely accurate and pertinent as to the condition we find the state of our country in, in particular our political discourse. The quote came in answering [...]
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Wolves in Maine in the 1800s – Part V (Attacks on Humans and Extermination or Migration?)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV When studying and reading through, “Early Maine Wildlife” – Historical Accounts of Canada lynx, Moose, Mountain Lion, White-Tailed Deer, Wolverine, Wolves, and Woodland Caribou, 1603 – 1930 – by William B. Krohn and Christopher L. Hoving, it becomes clear that there was not always agreements about wildlife. [...]
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Sportsmen Win Major Courtroom Battle Over Hunting on Public Lands
(Columbus, OH) – The lengthy battle over hunting access on dozens of units of the 100 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge system has ended—and hunters can declare VICTORY! In April 2011, federal Judge James S. Gwin ruled for sportsmen across America by granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, the U.S. Fish [...]
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New TV Series ‘RMEF Team Elk’ to Premiere July 3
MISSOULA, Mont.–A new television series premiering July 3 at 3:00 (ET) on Outdoor Channel, “RMEF Team Elk” features the hunting and conservation adventures of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation members. A host of members appear in the show’s first season, including celebrities such as baseball Hall-of-Famer Goose Gossage, outdoor personalities Lee and Tiffany Lakosky, football legend [...]
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Low Elk Mortality Expected in Arizona Wildfire
MISSOULA, Mont.–With wildfire burning through some of Arizona’s renowned elk country, and with media reporting “devastated” wildlife and habitat, concerned citizens are calling for an emergency feeding program for elk that survive the blaze. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation says elk mortality from wildfire is typically low, making supplemental feeding unnecessary. “Elk are extremely mobile [...]
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In Maine and Mountain Lions
I arrived safely at my camp in Maine last evening around 7 p.m. Got lots of unpacking and camp set up and clean up to do so I’ll be scarce for a day or two but will not disappear. Weather is less than ideal and cold, with high temps today expected in the upper 50s [...]
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A Bloodthirsty Pack of Dogs on Killing Spree in Washington
You really gotta love this. Here’s how the story starts in: “A “bloodthirsty” pack of dogs has killed about 100 animals in the past few months while eluding law enforcement and volunteers in northeastern Washington state, residents and authorities said. The killings started in late March and have occurred in a wide area of mountains [...]
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RMEF Honors Oregon Elk Researcher with Murie Award
MISSOULA, Mont.–An award honoring the science-based conservation legacy of Olaus J. Murie, the late biologist remembered as the father of modern elk management, has been presented by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to Dr. Michael Wisdom of La Grande, Ore. The recipient of the 2011 Olaus J. Murie Award is a wildlife researcher at the [...]
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Idaho Returns to Wolf Management
Actually this video is a bit laughable. One can only assume that these people are in the very early stages of jumping through hoops in order that they can discover the same end result if they would just read some history and talk to people with experience in what they are determined to call wolf [...]
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Wolves in Maine in the 1800s – Part IV (Community Efforts to Exterminate)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part V “Early Maine Wildlife” – Historical Accounts of Canada lynx, Moose, Mountain Lion, White-Tailed Deer, Wolverine, Wolves, and Woodland Caribou, 1603 – 1930 – by William B. Krohn and Christopher L. Hoving can tell us many things about how wildlife was perceived, treated, abused and misunderstood. From the [...]
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Equal Justice: Greenwich, Connecticut Terrorized By Mountain Lion
It is times like this that we all should recognize there is God. Many rural residents of the United States have always been willing to share those large predators that have seriously forced the alteration of their lifestyles, with the urban dwellers, many of whom are behind the actions to protect the very same large [...]
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Bob Marley’s Been ‘Uptah Camp’ This Week
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Idiot Emails
I have a special place in my email software where I archive what I call “Idiot Emails”. These are emails I receive from people who generally possess the intelligence of dried twig. I almost never respond to them but on occasion, I enjoy sharing with my readers the great entertainment. The one I just received [...]
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Wolves in Maine in the 1800s – Part III (First Recorded Attacks on Humans)
Part I, Part II, Part IV The book, Early Maine Wildlife – Historical Accounts of Canada lynx, Moose, Mountain Lion, White-Tailed Deer, Wolverine, Wolves, and Woodland Caribou, 1603 – 1930 – by William B. Krohn and Christopher L. Hoving, is proving to be an interesting addition to my library. I think the authors did a [...]
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Constitutional Amendment to Fund Maine IFW Will Go to the People
Posted by Tom Remington on June 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
We don’t know what kind of arm twisting and back room deals went on in Augusta that landed a failed bill back on the Floor for another vote that ended up in the passage of a constitutional amendment bill that would give a percentage of taxation to fund the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and [...]
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