Monthly Archives: February 2015

Follow our quinzhee adventure as it happens: #BDNsnowcave

Later today, BDN visuals editor Brian Feulner and I are heading to Unity College, where we’ll try to avoid freezing to death while sleeping in a snowbank. Actually, our adventure isn’t quite that death-defying: We’re going to help build a snow shelter — a quinzhee — with Unity College students. Then Brian and I will […]

Show season is back! Come visit us in Brewer this weekend

It was nearly 20 degrees below zero in Bangor this morning, and my lawn is covered with thigh-deep snow. Tonight, meteorologists tell us, we’ll add a few more inches to our frigid winter blanket. And on Thursday, I’m going to sleep in a snowbank. Ignore the fact that I might have said, on more than […]

Farewell to 491 Main St.

For more than two decades, I’ve been working side-by-side with talented, committed journalists who have called 491 Main St. home. Starting Monday, the home headquarters of the BDN will change: As you’ve likely heard, we’re moving downtown. So long, Paul Bunyan. Adios, Buck Street. Hello, One Merchants Plaza. Already, some of our co-workers have moved […]

Got deer? Herd of 25 surrounds Jeep in snowy Eastport

With yet another winter storm approaching, Dan Daley and his wife, Shannon, woke up Saturday and decided to hit the road for a day trip. “My wife and I love taking rides in the Jeep,” he explained. “Some people forget to be tourists in their own backyard. Eastport is just a half hour away, so […]

A winter wonderland just outside the door … but the first step is the toughest

It’s been quite a winter thus far, and cities and towns across the region have piled up feet of snow. Luckily, we’re Mainers and we’re tough. Or foolish. Or too darned stubborn to move to Florida. Fact is, there are plenty of things to do outside when the weather turns cold and the snow begins […]

Biologists propose slight reduction in moose permits for this year, to 2,815

Moose permit levels in most of the state’s Wildlife Management Districts will remain static this year, but slight tinkering in other districts will result in an overall decrease in permits, according to a plan being considered by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Biologists have proposed an allotment of 2,815 permits for hunting […]

Readers respond with winter camping hints

A week ago, I may have hinted (or begged) for help from BDN readers. If you missed that column, here’s the short version: My bosses decided that they were going to send me out into the cold, cruel world, and expected me to sleep in a snow shelter that I’d build myself. “Great story!” they […]

65 percent — an all-time low — of Maine moose hunters filled tags in 2014

Learn About Tableau The state’s moose hunters struggled to fill their tags in 2014, recording the lowest success rate — 65.3 percent — since Maine’s modern moose hunt began in 1980. The state’s moose biologist said a number of factors played roles in a relative lack of hunter success. Still, moose hunters have far better […]