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Witnessing the return of buffalo on a trip to Yellowstone
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (724+ words) In Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley, the predawn landscape awakens with the ancient chorus of bison grunts, bellows and pounding hooves. As morning light bathes the Absaroka Range, massive, shaggy silhouettes emerge from the mist — steam rising from their nostrils…...
Republican attacks on public lands should concern us all | Opinion
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (505+ words) Bob Hamblen lives in Saco. While polling consistently shows that national parks and monuments, national forests and wildlife refuges are broadly supported by majorities in both primary political parties in the U.S., curiously, the Republican majorities in both the U.S. Senate and…...
Interested in bird watching in Maine? Join the flock
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (610+ words) FALMOUTH — Chloe Hoffman of Portland put her yellow binoculars to her eyes and beamed. “I can’t believe that flycatcher is still there —” she said, and groaned as the bird took flight. Then, it flitted to a higher branch on a…...
Following the alewives: Gardiner students wade into science on Cobbossee Stream
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (892+ words) GARDINER — As water roared over a Cobbossee Stream dam a few feet behind him, Teddy Doleski carefully but quickly worked a pocket knife up under the scales of one of the shimmering alewives that his classmates had scooped up by…...
It’s peak moose collision season in Maine. Here’s what to know on the roads.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (810+ words) In Maine, May and June bring long, sunny days, blooming flowers — and more moose versus car crashes than any other two-month period during the year. Crashes involving moose happen mostly in the northern part of the state; almost half from…...
Can a baby boom save the right whale — and Maine’s lobster industry?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (976+ words) The North Atlantic right whale has spent much of the last decade teetering on the edge of extinction, having to travel farther for food while dodging ships and fishing gear, but a baby boom is offering the species — and lobstermen…...
In early spring, look forward to song of thrushes
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (803+ words) Centralmaine.com You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a Centralmaine.com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do…...
Skowhegan students study colony of threatened cliff swallows
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (736+ words) SKOWHEGAN — They look something like a wasps nest, but lumpier. Or some kind of oddly-shaped, avant-garde pottery. And sort of like a gourd. These structures, which line the walls under the eaves of the former Bloomfield Elementary School in Skowhegan,…...
Dar Williams travels to Maine on the ‘Hummingbird Highway’
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (388+ words) You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Singer-songwriter Dar Williams released “Hummingbird Highway,” her 13th... You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can…...
The world’s oldest chicken lives in Portland. Her name is Gertie.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (613+ words) From her makeshift crate in the living room, Gertie perks up whenever she hears bebop jazz and responds when her name is called. Her owner, Frank Turek, 63, moved her inside his Grant Street home a couple years ago when the…...