I enjoyed an early morning fishing trip on a beautiful lake last week, using only my quiet electric trolling motor. Using my onboard electronics, I slowly cruised around the lake searching my favorite ...

AUGUST IS a slow season for us in the political world. Congress is in recess, the Legislature is out of session, and Governor Kelly Ayotte has just about finished signing and vetoing bills for the ...

A common loon flaps its wings, which are short in comparison to its body size. Loons' small wings require them to get a running start to fly, according to Montana Loon Society President Lynn Kelly.

A common loon stretches its wings on Little Long Pond on Mount Desert Island. Credit: Aislinn Sarnacki / BDN This story was originally published in July 2022. Hearing the haunting call of a common ...

The eerie and melodic call of the common loon is not an invitation to get closer. Consider the call a signal that says, "I’m here, so pay attention." Necropsy results for Vermont’s oldest loon ...

Last summer, common loons nested for the first time ever on a small mountain lake not far from my home. The pair, which claimed the lake as their own, returned this year, nested and hatched a pair of ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet. Maine ...

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the stillness ...

Jul. 30—Around the early 1980s, lakes in Montana began buzzing with the increasing noise of boats and motorized personal watercraft. While people were having fun in the sun, they were unknowingly ...