More than 30 years later, the biologist who spearheaded the effort reflects on the challenges — and what might have been.
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Ron Joseph retired as a Maine wildlife biologist in 2010 following a thirty-three-year career working primarily in the woods of western and northern Maine.
How a basketball team made up of the children of immigrants stunned sports fans.
Alvin Theriault was 11 when he tied his first fishing fly. Now 64, Theriault and his wife, Connie, have been making and selling flies for 44 years.
Hibernation is a marvel no matter the creature, but black bears do it best, managing to stay warm, strong, and healthy through months without food or activity. Oh, and their cubs are pretty cute, too.
During World War II, thousands of German prisoners of war were held in internment camps across Maine. In the winter of 1945, three of them got away.
The “Tom Brady of fishing flies,” an overachieving underdog, and more.
Forester Pam Wells is building a flourishing legacy on a once-ailing woodlot.
The resurgence of Maine’s bald eagle population is one of the state’s most impressive ecological comeback stories. Ron Joseph remembers the big personalities and unorthodox methods that made it work.
A grandfather’s lesson: Maine has room for all kinds of neighbors.
An evening snowshoe across a frozen lake to see the northern lights turns into a fight for survival.