Backpacking at Cutler Coast, Maine
Backpacking experience in beautiful Cutler Coast Maine.
A must hike in New England
'The Bold Coast' Cutler, Maine.
Cutler, Maine (Bold Coast Trail)
Cutler, Maine, Pre-Solstice Bold Coast GoPro Test Adventure carrying weigh to much wait!!!
Audio Credits
3 Phase by Patrick Cormier
with Tim Fullerton on Drums
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Cutler Coast campsite
A quick vid showing our campsite before we set up and the nice little viewing area to sit and enjoy watching the sea birds, or seals, as we were lucky enough to see!
Cutler Coast Trail Day One 2016
An overnight on the Maine's cutler coast trail.
Discover Maine Public Lands
Some of Maine's most outstanding natural features and secluded locations are found on Maine's Public Lands. The more than half-million acres are managed for a variety of resource values including recreation, wildlife, and timber. Untold Secret, explores these unbelievably beautiful public lands. These are magical places in Maine—and they belong to all of us.
Production company: 360 Media Ventures, Portland, Maine
Filming locations: Bigelow Preserve Public Land; Cutler Coast Public Land; Deboullie Public Land; Moosehead Region Public Lands
Thank You to Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, for supporting this film.
Thank You to Land for Maine’s Future Program, for conserving many of Maine’s most iconic places.
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Bob Duchesne's Wild Maine: Maine's Public Reserve Lands
In this week's Wild Maine, we take a trip to some of Maine's public lands. It's 600,000 acres of undeveloped wildness. Wild Maine airs every Saturday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 8 a.m. on Sports Radio 92.9 The Ticket.
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Bold Coast Puffins Tour: Maine to Machias Seal Island
This video is from a puffins tour offered by Bold Coast Charter Company in Cutler, Maine.
While there are many puffins tours in Maine, Bold Coast Charter Company the only company in Maine authorized to take people ashore Machias Seal Island, where thousands of Atlantic Puffins nest every summer.
Cutler Maine is located in the most north-eastern section of Maine.
A 45 minute boat ride takes you from Cutler's harbor to Machias Seal Island. Ownership of the land is disputed by USA and Canada, but no passport required.
On the island, you'll be escorted to these blinds where you can photograph the puffins and other seabirds through little windows.
In addition to puffins, there are razorbills, common murres and arctic terns, among others.
Video filmed on GoPro Hero 7 Black and Panasonic GX85
For more information about Bold Coast Charter Company's Puffin Tour, visit their website:
Beach Life Hiking and Camping Maine's Bold Coast
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Some clips from our beach stay on the Bold Coast of Cutler Maine! Awesome place to enjoy nature! Also showing the waves! And my home made DIY penny can stove being used to cook soup!
Me and Tina in Maine
Cliffs at the shoreline on the Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land in Maine
Where can you go in coastal Maine to get away from the crowds?
Author Rich Bard says the Bold Coast offers the best of “the real Maine”.
Where's Dennis?
Thank you to fellow hikers who inquired about Dennis.
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A few snapshots of our July 4th hike in the Cutler Coast Public Land Reserve along the Bold Coast of Maine. Stunning cliffs along the ocean and pleasant inland trails that pass through woods and marshes in the company of wild flowers and warblers.
Go Outside and Come Back Better - Book Trailer
Trailer for the book Go Outside and Come Back Better by Ron Lizzi ( a Book of the Year finalist.
The landscape photos are, in order of appearance:
Atlantic sunrise - Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, NC
Lighthouse formation - Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX
Crater Lake - Crater Lake National Park, OR
President tree - Sequoia National Park, CA
Mount Rainier - Mount Rainier National Park, WA
Mount Moran - Grand Tetons National Park, WY
Kissing Camels - Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, CO
Ganoga Falls - Ricketts Glen State Park, PA
Bryce Amphitheater - Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
Atlantic shoreline - Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land, ME
Tent Rocks - Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, NM
Grand Portal - Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
American Falls - Niagara Falls State Park, NY
Chimney Rock - Chimney Rock National Historic Site, NE
Eastern newt - Sumter National Forest, SC
White ibises - Bowman's Beach, Sanibel, Lee County, FL
Red maple - Sleeping Giant State Park, CT
Black and white photos from Bigstock.com
The Tunk Adventure
A Mother/Son Adventure up Tunk Mountain
Cobscook Bay Camping 2015
Snapshots from a weekend adventure which included: camping at Cobscook Bay State Park, hiking in the Cutler Public Land Reserve, enjoying a whale watch cruise out of Lubec (saw no whales, did see an eagle, seals, and harbor porpoises), enjoying a walk in Eastport, and visiting the St. Croix Island International Historic Site near Calais. A companion video, Where's Dennis?, offers more snapshots from our hike of the Bold Coast in the beautiful Cutler Public Land Reserve.
Maine by the Mile Episode 3: As Downeast as it gets
Dustin, Rachel and Julia head to the unfettered beauty of Maine's bold coast. Their adventures in the downeast towns lead them to an AirBnb with amazing views, renting their own private lighthouse/island for the night, smoked salmon on a stick, unreal sunrises and the reality of living far from a major employment center. Ready to plan your ultimate Maine road trip? mainebythemile.com
Cobscook Campground Maine
Camp life!!
Outcome Based Forestry in Maine Public Summary
In 2017 we updated our management plan for the 1,255,000 acres that we own in Northern Maine. This forest management plan aligns with the criteria and objectives outlined within the Maine Forest Service’s (MFS) Outcome Based Forestry (OBF) law. We are confident that our new plan can be implemented to meet the desired outcomes of the OBF agreement that we entered into with the MFS. This agreement requires that our operations be implemented in a manner that is ecologically sustainable, economically viable, and socially responsible.
It's about holding ourselves accountable to the people of the state of Maine. Making sure that we're economically viable operators, we're taking care of our communities, providing jobs, and that we're also taking care of the environment. That's the really great thing about Outcome Based Forestry, it's about ensuring sustainability for future generations, said Ked Coffin, Regional Forester.
Outcome Based Forestry requires economic, social and environmental assessment.
maine.gov/dacf/mfs/policy_management/outcome_based_forestry.html
Our OBF agreement obligates us to maintain independent third party certifications for our woodlands and relieves us from certain provisions of the Maine Forest Practices Act (FPA). Today, our woodland’s are certified to meet the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC® C041515) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) forest certification systems. Under this agreement the FSC US Forest Management standards have been aligned (with additional indicators) with all federal and state laws.
Final OBF assessment is determined by a governor appointed panel of technical experts who report to the director of the MFS. The accompanying table provides a quick reference comparison between OBF and the Maine FPA and the benefits that have been achieved thus far. A summary of our conservation, our forest management plan and our SFI and FSC certification reports are both publicly posted on our website.
The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
Taking Care Episode 1: Maine
Anyone who spends time outdoors understands the importance of protecting our wild spaces. In a time where public lands are under attack and recreational value seems to come secondary to commercial value, it is more important than ever to promote education, use, and most of all, the stewardship of the places we play.
Each summer, individuals known affectionately as “caretakers” commit themselves to life in the outdoors. They live without running water or electricity, and spend their days interacting with others who come to visit these places. Their role as educators, trail builders, protectors, and companions is essential to those who spend time on the trail every season.
We’re proud to introduce Taking Care, our 3-part series focusing on these people and their selfless dedication to caretaking some of the most special places in the Northeast.
In the first episode of Taking Care, we'll head to the rugged coast of Maine to meet John Connelly, a volunteer for the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA). Though it's one of the lesser-known trails in the Northeast, the Maine Island Trail is also one of the most unique—America's first recreational water trail. Stretching for 375 miles and connecting over 200 island and mainland campsites along the Maine coastline, the commitment to coastal access and environmental stewardship of MITA is instrumental to this beautiful trail's existence.