Archive | December, 2009

Paddling Down Maine’s Allagash River

16 Dec

Thoreau paddled it, so why shouldn’t you? We enjoyed THIS recent story about paddling down Maine’s Allagash River, a river made famous by Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods. The river, which since 1970 has been protected as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, blends placid lakes and ponds with flowing water and streaming rapids. In Albert […]

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Hunting Deer from Canoes

7 Dec

We enjoyed this recent story about a canoe-based, northern Wisconsin deer hunt. St. Paul Pioneer Press outdoor writer Chris Niskanen and friends pushed out into the Namekagon River during the Wisconsin firearms deer season in an effort to take deer in a new way.  Their story is HERE. The group found deer hiding out on the river’s […]