When he book is written about the most important ecologists before our time, pride of place would have to go to Henry David Thoreau. I have just finished reading his The Maine Woods, which describes three trips the author took to the North Woods of Maine in the mid 19th century. How he managed to tr

The Maine woodlands of the Pine Tree State’s far north are not particularly easy to visit, even today; and they were considerably more difficult to access when Henry David Thoreau made three separate voyages, between 1846 and 1857, into the remote woodlands north of Bangor. And anyone who loves the

With Thoreau In The Maine Woods

In 1848, 1853,and 1857, Henry David Thoreau travelled to the wilderness -- forests, lakes, rivers, and mountains in the northwest part of Maine. He wrote three lengthy essays describing each of his journeys, and they were gathered together, as Thoreau had wished, and p

I started reading this when we climbed Mount Katahdin this summer, and as a travelogue, I found it fascinating. Despite growing up in Maine, I don't know much about it during that time period, and reading about how unsettled some of these now-familiar places were is intriguing.

However, I don't know

As a child, I vacationed on the lakes of Maine. I spent fours years there in college. I skied Sugarloaf and Squaw Mountain, the latter once with a wind chill of 28 below zero. In my youth I climbed Mt. Katahdin. I have caught-and-released salmon in Moosehead Lake in the shadow of Mt. Kineo. And trav