Penobscot County Conservation Association
November, 2005 Newsletter

President: Woody Higgins

Meeting date November 3, 2005

A Roast Pork dinner will be served at 7pm. The speaker will be Andy Goode from the Atlantic Salmon Commission. There will be a turkey shoot prior to the November meeting starting at 5pm. Two hams and two turkeys will be the prizes. Charlie Rumsey will be in charge.

Remember if you still have raffle tickets to turn them in prior to this meeting as we will be drawing the two winners that night. Also you can still join the big deer contest if you haven't tagged prior to the meeting.

We had a work day at Stetson on Oct 13th and again on Oct 19-20th. The sill was repaired and a trench was dug (Thanks to Fred Sales, his brother & their backhoe) along the side of the camp so that air can get under the camp. Crushed rock and chicken wire was installed so as to keep the porcupines out. A beaver deceiver was installed at the culvert as the busy beavers keep plugging it. The work crews consisted of these hardy souls: Dean Smith, Dave Worcester, John Trott, Tim McCluskey, Tony Richard, and Woody Higgins. If I missed anyone I apologize as I wasn't there on the 19-20th.

When you come to the meeting you will notice the generator is installed and will be hooked up by Zeke, John, and Louie.

Zeke and Louie will be going to Greenland Point on the 25th -27th of October to continue to get the electric service there up and going. There will be a work day there on November 13th. Anyone interested in helping please contact Al Faust, Woody Higgins, or Zeke Leighton.

At the October Board meeting Stan Getchell announced that he was ready to step back from being Membership Chairman but continue to be on the committee and help the new chair. We are fortunate to have two excellent people step forward to fill this position. Dola Hinckley and Kelly Munson have been appointed to be co-chairs of the membership committee. Thanks to you both. Many thanks to Stan for his over 20 years as membership chair.

On Saturday October 22nd Stan Getchell, Tony Richard, Dick Ireland, Al Faust, Ginny Fournier, and Woody Higgins manned a table at Dick's Sporting Goods at the Bangor Mall to represent the PCCA. Thanks to these members and to Dick's. Doubly so, as this was the first good Saturday of October.

If any members are interested in a NRA basic pistol course see Dick Ireland or Charlie Rumsey. This is for members only and can take up to 12 people. It takes three sessions.

Randy McEwen will do a GPS course for members only if ten people are interested. He will do a day long course and the cost is $50.00. This is half his usual charge. If interested see Jay Munson.

A reminder that if you haven't paid your dues to do so. We used to ask for a paid up membership card to be shown at the dinner meeting and we might have to start doing this again.

The club will be used on November 14th from 6-9 pm by the Atlantic Salmon Council.

The next Board meeting will be on November 17th at 6pm. Any member is welcome to attend.

We can use some help at bingo. The attendance is coming back and illness has depleted the ranks of our staff.

Thanks to Deane Smith for the action photos of clay shooting at the Stetson Land. The equipment shown was purchased by Charlie Rumsey through a Freinds of the NRA Grant:

For everyone who enjoyed last months program:

From the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine

Manly Hardy (1832-1910): The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-Buyer, Hunter, and Naturalist

Compiled and Introduced by William B. Krohn Northeast Folklore Volume XXXVIII
Here is a book of interest to folklorists, historians, biologists, hunters and trappers. Manly Hardy was a nineteenth century businessman from Brewer, Maine. Like his father, Hardy owned and worked farmlands and woodlots, and two wharfs along the Penobscot River. But the Hardys' primary source of income was as dealers in animal hides and raw furs. The father of Maine historian Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Hardy hunted and traveled along the Down East Coast early in life, and regularly took trips to the forests of eastern, central, and northern Maine throughout his life. He retired early from business and devoted much of his time to collecting bird, and writing about Maine's early game laws and his wildlife observations. Hardy's writings provide detailed and unique insights into Maine's natural and social environments from the mid-1800s through the turn-of-the-century.

A biographical sketch of Hardy at the beginning of this book provides an introduction for Hardy's re-published articles that follow. Of Hardy's re-published works, two are long pieces about trips he took in the North Maine Woods whereas the others are about caribou, cougar, lynx, moose, otter, porpoise, sea mink (extinct), wolves, and other wildlife species. Hardy published in a number of scientific journals and newspapers, but most of his works appeared in Shooting and Fishing and Forest and Stream. Also included in this book is an annotated bibliography of Hardy's known writings.
William B. Krohn, who compiled this volume and introduces Hardy, is a wildlife research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Dr. Krohn is stationed at the University of Maine, Orono, and is Leader of the Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Krohn's interest in Manly Hardy stems from his current research which includes, among other topics, documenting the historical occurrences and distributions of selected wildlife species in Maine.

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