Recent content by Jeff Reardon

I tried googling on this a bit this morning. I found that 44% of sea level rise figure quoted in several places, but none of them identified the original source. I also found references to a NOAA publication that suggested influence of ground water pumping was pretty small, but didn't provide...

I need to know more about groundwater pumping and sea-level rise. It's an interesting hypothesis about which I know nothing. But even if what you posted is 100% accurate, ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica accounts for 56% of sea level rise--which is more than half. 44% is less than half...

You can do hunter safety for firearms online in Maine. I think bow and trapping require an in-person course. Several coming up in my area.

The thing is though, that come deer season, my duck spots get pretty lonely--just how I like them!

Saw in the paper today that it's the 40th anniversary of the release of Paul Simon's Graceland Album. This was not one of the big radio hits, but I was already a Los Lobos fan so I paid more attention to it because they played as the back-up band on it. It's grown on me over the years. And I...

Yes, the big groups are a definite thing. I have another spot that's not lost, but that used to be a great place to sneak in early for a quick hunt when the tide was right. Solo or with no more than three hunters, there was a perfect natural blind in trees at the downstream end of an island...

Yeah, I forget how lucky I am with Maine's expansive public access and still mostly rural character. I have lost a favorite spot of mine to a new development on a steep eroding slope that required a massive rip rap retaining wall to (temporarily) protect the new houses from ongoing erosion that...

Oh, we are already seeing it. We have been for ~25 years. But expanding the fight to allow alternations of wetlands that were purchased for conservation is a new level of chutzpah.

I'm struck by the paradox that we are losing hunter numbers but spots are more crowded. Where did all those hunters we've lost used to spend their time?

It seems odd to me to offer two different options. I can't think of any other fish or game bag limit where that is the case.I'd say it depends on whether there are any species whose conservation status is such that taking 3 hens per day would cause problems. And whether there are any species...

I'd add that for 10+ years DU has really backed off of government advocacy on wetlands policy issues. That they are choosing this issue as the time and place re-engage indicates how serious the potential impact is. I also think the DU/Delta messaging is 100% on target. These easements were...

I'd question whether "the farmer" really wrote it, and pehaps whether he really exists. Clearly, the political support and money for this change is coming from large agriculture operations, either portraying themselves as or standing up more sympathetic family farmers to lead the charge. I may...

Just raffia grass for a small lay out blind was a pretty good chunk of change, and added a ton of weight, even dry. Will be much heavier after the first hunt in the rain. I'll try it this season, but think I will be back to using to dead grass, seaweed and drift wood I can scavenge on site for...

Here's a Washington Post Op Ed from the position of a farmer who wants to be able to plow close to, install drain tiles next to, and dig drainage channels through prairie pot hole wetlands. My take--previous owners of the property SOLD those wetland easements to the public. Years later, a new...

I can't relate as a duck hunter. My "home" early season spot hunts best in low water years, when it's puddle duck magnet. In normal and especially high water years, the bottom vegetation is too deep for puddles. But as a trout fisherman suffering through (another) warm, dry summer, I feel your...