Julie Harris

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Julie Harris

Cameras are trained on osprey nests in Lamoine and Mount Desert Island for the nesting season. Versant builds platforms at more than 25 sites to keep the big nesting osprey off other infrastructure. The company works with its own environmental team, plus outside groups and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Julie Harris

The warming tent could be the most popular place Saturday as paddlers come into the finish line during the 58th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race. Meteorologists are predicting rain for Saturday, but it has not deterred people from entering the 16.5-mile race, according to coordinator Debbie Gendreau of the Bangor Department of Parks and Recreation.

1 week ago | observer-me.com | Julie Harris

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News StaffThe Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife expanded the hunting season for gray squirrels by a month and shifted youth waterfowl hunting dates in the north zone to start and end a week later than last year. The bounty of food, including acorns, in the last few years has helped the gray squirrel population increase to a point that the department felt the hunting season could be expanded, especially in southern and central Maine.

1 week ago | observer-me.com | Julie Harris

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News StaffOutdoors is a beat that almost no other paper in the country has. But that isn’t the only reason it is so special at Bangor Daily News. How we cover it is unique. Our Outdoors journalist actually hunts and fishes and knows the lingo, but also is very familiar with other outdoor activities and their special languages.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Julie Harris

Those of us who fish, hunt or trap are well aware of what bag limits are: it’s how many of a species of fish or bird or animal we may legally kill. We also are subject to rules that tell us how many of each species we can have in our possession at one time. Those numbers are not arbitrary. The state determines what they should be to maintain healthy populations of whatever is being fished, hunted or trapped, and they can change from year to year.