August 2007 Almanac
This Month: Summertime…and the Living Is … Good
August arrives with heat and humidity, but as the month slides toward September, mornings have a chill and red maples in lowland often have a limb or even a whole tree turn scarlet, a certain promise of what’s to come
In Northern Maine, bear hunting is wicked big news this month, but in the bottom two-thirds of the state, darned few people even think about it.
Bear baiters put out food piles daily, and the season for baiters and the fair-chase crowd starts Aug. 27. Baiters have until Sept. 22 to sit over man-placed foods but the fair-chase group can chase bruins until Nov. 24.
Crow season in Maine has a spring and summer-fall split season, and the second one runs from Aug. 1 through Sept. 29.