The Man with a Plan to Save Maine’s Moose Population Lee Kantar, the only dedicated state moose biologist in the country, is charged with everything from managing the hunt to countering the deadly ...

Shark Attacks in Maine Were Unthinkable — Until Bailey Island Maine's first-ever fatal shark attack jolted natives and visitors alike into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the ...

The Very Long Walk That Changed Maine Politics In the summer of 1972, the little-known, 31-year-old mayor of Bangor set out on a walk clear across the state — from Gilead to Houlton to Fort Kent — in ...

Green Crabs Are Maine’s Most Delicious Scourge Meet the scientists and chefs who want to get invasive green crabs out of Maine’s waters and into your belly.

This Woman Wants to Destroy Your Lawn And replace it with something better. Why Heather McCargo and the Wild Seed Project want us all to think differently about what we plant (and yeah, to think about ...

How Much Longer Will the Threat of Industrialization Loom Over Sears Island? For activists trying to save Sears from development, the clock is ticking.

Who wants to run 26.2 miles through the Maine North Woods in the middle of December? Millinocket Marathon founder Gary Allen does.

The Upstream Battle to Preserve Maine’s Lucrative Elver Fishery Some observers suspect that the number of baby eels migrating up Maine rivers is declining. Passamaquoddy fishermen have taken ...

The Palace Diner, Maine’s Oldest Dining Car, Lives On Chad Conley and Greg Mitchell, are just the sixth owners to cinch up their aprons and helm the griddle.

Only in the past few years have researchers confirmed that 700 Acre Island, along with a few of its neighbors, is composed of Maine’s very oldest rocks. The fieldstone with which the Gibson family ...

The Book That Birthed the Back-to-the-Land Movement How Scott and Helen Nearing's Living the Good Life shaped a generation.