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I've thought about this too. Not a biologist but I imagine it has to do with the amount of unfragmented habitat in Maine. The other northeast states have a lot more fragmentation and so human encroachment on habitat is much higher. In my years working in the woods I only encountered a bear in the woods once, and he/she quickly departed the scene, the rest of my sightings were were on woods roads etc. I was always way more concerned with running into moose, especially during the rut. I was working up to the southwest of Ross Lake one September and had a run in with a bull that left me pretty shook. Still beats desk life, which is what I enjoy for better or worse these days.

A fourth of July parade…..At this point it’s not a matter of if but when you or the people you love will be affected by gun violence. We’re just sitting on our hands waiting for the bullets to hit our kids, spouses, parents, etc. We had an assault weapons ban before and the government didn’t go all King George and take away our freedoms. Time to ban them again. I know that there are millions who will never give them up but perhaps it could stop from getting these weapons in the hands of a few would be killers. It’s a lot harder to kill lots of people with a hand gun, shot gun, single shot rifle, or a knife.

Winter 21/22 is not over in western North America. Some insane snow totals coming out of northwest Montana over the last two days. 39” positive snow depth change between 6/13-6/15 at this snotel site in the flatheads. https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customSingleStationReport/daily/664:mt:SNTL|id=""|name/-7,0/WTEQ::value,WTEQ::delta,SNWD::value,SNWD::delta

Keep the heat where it belongs

The sales of ar-15 copies and the general proliferation of firearm ownership in the last 20 years has made some powerful people a ton of money. Nothing will change and kids and innocent people will keep dying. Until we value the lives of innocent people over our belief in an unobstructed right to own any and all firearms, this shame will not stop. It’s part of our culture’s descent into the machiavellian madness of prioritizing individual over collective needs and rights. It’s only going to get worse before/if it ever gets better. At some point every single one of us will be impacted by gun violence, and, like climate change, that may be the point we finally do something. But thousands more innocents will die before then.

Just got a report those cells moving through Waterville and Bangor had some serious precip rates but no hail.

We had a cell move through Fryeburg and bridgton about 2 hours ago. Light rain and thunder.

Just water clinging to everything here. When it comes it will be steamy.

58. So much for the torch.

Still plenty of skiing left in the alpine if you’re willing to work for it. Hillmans went top to bottom in perfect spring corn today. .

Give up man! might be time to consider some of those grassless landscaping concepts they're promoting out west. Just pea stone, mulch, and wood chip the whole yard.

Hoping we can keep it cool and and wet into May. Maine desperately needs a stretch like that to control the browntail and gypsy moth caterpillar infestations.

welcome to the area. Don't sleep on Crescent lake. Some good trout and salmon fishing on the fly in this area if you're into that too.

Spring has sprung in SLC with the cottonwoods already leafed out but full on winter in the canyons. 5-10” more forecast for tonight at the ski areas. The bird was great today. .

Upslope machine turned on around 6 am today and snowed all day at Jay. Maybe 5-6” above 2500’. Made for some great late season powder turns in the woods. Off to Salt Lake on Wednesday, hoping to keep the good times rolling with the central wasatch now under a WSW for 1-2’ through Wednesday morning. .

love to see it.

My issue with Subaru's is mostly mechanical. I have never liked the boxer motors, they all feel underpowered and the power bands are funky. Plus they all inevitably end up with terrible heat shield rattles and I've had two that blew the head gaskets. The straight 4s in the yotas and hondas just feel way better to me and have a much longer tack record of longevity and performance.

I'm sure you're right but the amount of Tacoma's with VT plates lined up at the mountain bike trailheads in NoCo all summer paints a different picture for this Mainer. And the X-terra, wow. I still see quite a few of those, now 15 years old or more, rattling around the backroads of western Maine. The yellow one's stick out especially.

The tacoma being number #3 is so Burlington, Vermont. That might be VT's new "subaru" at this point.

Maine is similar, not surprisingly. Half my road, myself included, has a RAV. I also have a Subaru and the RAV is a vastly superior vehicle. 1. Ford F-Series 2. Chevrolet Silverado 3. Ram 1500/2500/3500 4. Toyota RAV4 5. GMC Sierra

headed to Jay this afternoon. Hoping for some upslope magic tomorrow night. Model spread is pretty wide and BTV is not buying much. If you guys in VT could cue up some fake snow for me that would be great.

Lots of people from away bought lake front houses on private camp roads during COVID and are finding out the hard way about mud season. You can't live year round down a half mile dirt road that drops 200 feet to the lake and drive a Prius. Not happening.

Seems like we're getting some run to run support since 12z yesterday. Hoping things line up!

Any thoughts on this weekend from the northern Greens crew? Skiing has been great here but just booked a weekend at Jay on a whim and GFS is selling a nice upslope event after the rain Friday and Saturday.