Category Archives: Black Bear
Getting Reacquainted & Outdoors Fitness
Help please! Can you identify these dragonflies?
These gorgeous dragonflies (or maybe they’re not dragonflies?) and others buzzed around the pond yesterday afternoon, eating black flies and mosquitoes. I’m very fond of dragonflies and appreciate them flying inches from my head to catch the biting bugs while I work in the garden. I don’t know the identification of any of these dragonflies […]
Jennifer Vashon, bear biologist, talks about Maine’s bears
Jennifer Vashon, one of Maine’s bear biologists, was a guest with Tom Saviello on Talkin’ Maine. I was happy to see the show on Vimeo as this isn’t a program I can watch at home. Have you ever wondered how biologists age a bear? Are sows pregnant during hunting season? And when do they give […]
Maine Bear Hunting Referendum: hunting with Bob Tigro
This is an incredible story. Refill your coffee and get comfortable. You’ll be drawn in quickly. This is Bob Tigro’s story of bear and coyote hunting at Oxbow Lodge in Oxbow. What do coyotes have to do with hunting bears with bait, snares and hounds? If it weren’t for bear hunting Bob wouldn’t have made […]
Maine Bear Hunting Referendum: Thoughts from an out-of-stater
I met Pat Rayta online in a group devoted to saving Maine’s proven hunting methods. It’s a big group, more than 1,300 men and women who love the outdoors, understand or are learning about hunting as a means of conversation, and who are passionate about keeping Maine’s bear population healthy. It didn’t take long to […]
After the ice storm
This is what my corner of northern Washington County looks like after the ice storm, and before yesterday’s snowfall. These are the most recent photos I have. We lost WiFi during the storm so I’m using the limited service on cell phone’s hotspot. It’s going to be a while before the ice melts from the […]
A second bear!
Finally! A bear!
My no-bear bear baiting experience
Bear Baiting: a little discouraged
Bear Baiting: tending the bait
Bear Baiting: The barrel
Don’t store bear bait in the… (reader shared story)
Steve’s putting together a tree stand for the bear bait site. I’m getting the game cameras’ batteries replaced, cards formatted and inserted, and a little bait together. A cortisone shot in my injured, arthritic knee on Thursday is working nicely today so rolling the barrel up hill won’t be so bad. I need to figure […]
Bear baiting opens July 27
Who stole the deer?
A quick story for the rainy weekend. My brother-in-law Jason is a bow hunter. He has a very nice life-like target, a buck with antlers. He and a friend spend time practicing from the tree stand to be well prepared for hunting season. He went to the tree stand and discovered the target was missing. […]