Pretty good buck!!

Hey man , thanks for that tour and stories. My grandfather worked as a cookie at Ripogenus for a few years around 1912 or so, and would tell us stories about the camps and river drives as well as the Bangor tigers. Your video brought a lot of that back to me and I really enjoyed it. He was a great guy and though he's been gone for a long time I still think of him often. I will check out that book as it sounds like a good one, and thanks again.

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That's right. The Great Egret was there first and wasn't too happy about the intruders on his fishing spot. At the end, a Snowy Egret lands.

Great Egret hanging out with Glossy Ibis

Wanted to visit Moosehead Lake. Since I was a kid and my pop pop told me stories about a great uncle of mine who wound up marrying and settling up there. After he came home from WWII. He worked as a pilot in and around the Moosehead Lake area for some years. As well as flying for one of the bigger commercial airliners(which one I can't recall anymore). But he did that up until he was killed. When a commercial flight he was co-pilot on went down shortly after take off. Wish I could still remember where the crash site was exactly. It was big news at the time (early 80's possibly late 70's). They were calling it the worst air disaster in the history of New England at that time. And I'm fairly certain it still holds that unfortunate place in history yet today. He was a Hines.

Been going up to moosehead lake for the past 25 ,26 years!! Beautiful area and have seen many moose up close! Usually drive up to kokadjo and then on the other side of lake up to rockwood! Sometimes take a long ride to jackman and then cross the border to the quebec area and st george, quebec! Love to take the golden highway to mt katahdin, so peaceful and beautiful. Thanks for the info on this beautiful lake, very interesting and informative! I was told when first visiting the area that the name, moosehead lake was because when you look at the map of the lake it looks like moose antlers!! Thanks for the video!!

The red green show. 😊

Thanks so much! I love it up there. Went up for the first time about 10 years ago by myself and I knew nothing of the history of the area. For some reason I was drawn there, and have gone back there year after year when I can, drawn by that same feeling. We usually go up in the summer, my daughters and I and sometimes their boyfriends . We camp, canoe, fish a little. We have rode down the West Branch 2x, once with Northern Outdoors and once with NEOC, both times were a great (and terrifying) experience ! Our guides were wonderful, fun, cooked us amazing food in the middle of the woods and shared many stories of The Maine Woods. We also hiked Mt. Katahdin via the Abol trail, up and down! That was one of the hardest things I've ever done, recreation wise! but totally worth it, Katahdin is no joke, took us all day long and we started about as early as you can! Last year I paddled the Debsconeag Lakes Canoe Loop by myself, that also was very strenuous but absolutely beautiful and worth it, although the last leg down the river I almost dumped my boat and took a large rock across my bottom , but came out ok! I definitely plan to come back this year 2024! Thanks for the history, I love it! And Happy New Year, Sir!!!

This original song by the fabulously talented Katie Petersen ( @katiepetersen ) could not have been released at a more perfect time! Well, first, for this view! But I just finished editing and releasing a new book of Fannie Eckstorm stories, one of which was a tale about Maine's sheriffs of Shottingham and Nottingham. Wicked good Maine creative non-fiction.

There are four mountains related to a moose theme seen in this video. Can you name them? Bonus: Three of them are responsible for how Moosehead Lake was named, which ones?

This is from the "putting in place" on the West Branch of the Penobscot River, just below the Ripogenus Dam.

He needs a kid on his bow for tempo

On the next episode of 'My Maine Matters' I'm heading to Ripogenus Gorge to share a few Maine lumbering stories. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it. (Song: The Falling of the Pine - by The Mallett Brothers)