I am from Maine, right up by beaver creek. Maine was built on wood products, plastics (oil industry) have taken away the wood industry and we keep drinking their kool aid. Just voted down the corridor, that helped oil. Both my parents worked in the mills of northern Maine, raised me to hunt and fish. I am passing that on to my kids. I could eat a deer liver when I was a kid, not anymore, it’s filled with pfas and other toxins from all the plastics in the air, in the water. No one is coming for your guns, the oil industry is using the gun lobby to put their candidates in office. Follow the money Tom. The one thing that effects me passing my heritage on the most is land access, please stop posting your land, you are only borrowing it for a while, let other people enjoy what little is left of the land, and stop putting plastic signs all over it. Love your videos. Appreciate your point of view. I am a gun carrying, buck hunting, partridge shooting, perch filleting Democrat who knows we are a lot closer than what our fascist media likes to paint us. Keep up the good work Tom. Can’t get enough of your videos. Have a good one!
Good morning, Thank you very much! :) yes you're absolutely right I do believe voting down that power corridor it's right up there with one of the more foolish things at this state has voted. Like you said they're still drinking the Kool-Aid. Whenever it comes to business in this state they always vote it down it's that not in my backyard mentality. Voting down the power corridor and the big propane station on the coast years ago is why we have to pay big prices everything in this state. I look at that power Corridor is a big food plot for all of the animals think about it couple hundred feet wide field the length of the power line grass has all kinds of stuff for the deer are rabbits everything as well as a great place to hunt. Lots of people hunt the power lines during deer season. On top of that it will produce some great power for the state of Maine not just Massachusetts. As you can tell I've got a lot to say about that power line LOL stupid stupid stupid vote. Very good for you passing it on to your kids that's exactly what I am doing with my grandsons. You're absolutely right about posting land in the last couple of years I have never seen so many posted signs going up. I have a feeling it's from outside is buying up big chunks of land and the first thing that they do is slap up posted signs. Well if you are a gun carrying buck hunting Partridge shooting perch fishing Democrat you are more than welcome on this channel LOL Hahahaha Thank you for all the kind words about the channel I do try to keep it real. This is how I live and have always lived. I hope you have a great day! Tom
I couldn't agree with you more. It saddens me and angers me at the same time. There is a desease in this world and it's spreading like a cancer. You're 100% right. Mainers have to wake up and save their traditions and so do all Americans God bless.
Good evening luis, Thank you very much! :) I couldn't agree with you more my friend! We all need to stop being so passive because we're getting run over by a bunch of Thieves and Crooks.
As an out of stater who owns land in Maine and loves to hunt and fish! I agree with you Tom. Even I can’t understand why people who claim they love Maine come in and want to change it and the politics. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that another like minded person like yourself agrees, even being “the out of stater.”
Good morning Jared, Welcome to the Great State of Maine! :) yes it is a very funny thing that they do especially in Southern Maine. I don't understand it either. Yes I have some out-of-state of friends and we all think alike and we all work towards the same goal. Nice to meet you Jared thank you very much for stopping by I hope you had a cup of coffee with me. Lol Tom
@@EastGrandWoodsman I’m really enjoying your channel Tom! I definitely did have a coffee with you, and now will have many more! Looking forward to catching up on your videos now that I found your channel ☕️
Good Afternoon, I'm glad you found us! stay tune to the channel I've got something really big coming out in a couple of weeks :) I'm just tying up some loose ends before I go public. Tom
Good morning Tom. Been a while since I made any comments. You are absolutely right brother. They've been doing the same thing here. Getting into local gov't. to change things. We don't want it either. But it don't matter to them what WE the People want. To me nature is a lot more civilized than human society. I'm going back to the woods. Another fine informative video Tom. See you soon.
Good evening Wayne, Thank you Wayne. I couldn't agree with you more my friend. I'm trying to getting fed up with all of it. Any kind of guy that doesn't like a whole lot of foolishness and I got a feeling we got a lot of foolishness coming our way. Good for you to get back to Nature that's what I do also and I've had it up to my nostrils. It's time to dig in like the ticks on a Hound back. I am preparing and I plan to hold my ground. Great to hear from you Wayne. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I believe I'm preaching to the choir videos like this. I'm not sure the rest of the country's got the stomach for it or if they're even listening. You have a great week my friend. Tom
Great video Tom! This is just not a Maine problem,its a every state problem! I'm from Texas born and raised(63yrs old). One of our problems,for the outdoor person here,(is the use and abuse).You can go to the woods or lake,you can see where people have been,from the trash they have left. Coming home yesterday,i saw where someone threw out the Teal they had killed on the side of the road. It is very saddening to see this! People have no morals anymore!
Good evening , I couldn't agree with you more my friend we all need to take heed what's going on right now in this country. It's the same way here with trash it's unbelievable how much trash is Left Behind white people that say they love the country it really is quite saddening. I hope you and your family are having a great week thank you very much for the comment it is greatly appreciated. Tom
I totally agree with everything you said Tom ! I'm from away an moved up here many years ago and absolutely love the people, traditions and way of life here and have no desire to see anything change.
That’s so true and so sad . They want changes for their own righteous ways. Me me me me me me me me. Awful Passive makes for easy change. You should post a list all those people to watch out for
Good afternoon Larry, Thank you very much! :) Hahaha Same here trying to catch up on my comments. Thank you very much for being a part of the channel! Tom
Love you’re videos. Spent the last few days skimming you’re videos and watching them. I’m a young New Hampshireite that loves to go up to the County and the North Maine Woods and recreate.
Good morning Andrew, Thank you very much checking out the channel. That's great you get to check out the North Maine Woods. That is some of my favorite grounds to hunt and fish. You said your young. How old are you. I'm always interested in young people getting into this lifestyle. It has been a great way to spend my life. I have been building up Beaver Creek Deer Hunting Camp the last couple of years. It's almost ready for hunting and trapping. I'll have plenty of bear hunting and trapping videos coming out soon you might be interested in. Thank you for the great comment. Tom
Good morning Nicholas, Thank you very much! The saying same thing is happening here. Some newcomers not all. But some of them absolutely try to change the way we live here in the state of Maine. Especially when it comes to our hunting and fishing and right to own firearms. That's one of the reasons I started my channel many years ago as well as the patreon channel so that I can share my thoughts on retaining our traditions and lifestyle here in the state of Maine. I hope you're having a great day! Tom
Great video ! I have had conversations about this topic on more than one occasion. I have family in Maine and my camp is in Maine but I have to wait a few more years till I retire before I move. I have made some great friends with many native mainers over the years, and your right about being welcome with open arms. But I also realize it's my responsibility to respect and learn the ways of Maine if I want to continue to be welcomed.
Good evening James, you got it my friend! :) it's just as so many people are moving to the state and they get on the town councils in the capital in Augusta now they trying to send one to Washington is one of our Senators. I think that's what got under my skin a little bit with this video it was on my mind Sara Gideon from Rhode Island. Is a typical example someone from away that's trying to change everything about the state of Maine. I'd like to call her a wolf in sheep's clothing. You got the right idea my friend you will be welcome in the state. I look forward to the day when you tell me you have finally moved I know that there are a lot of my viewers I would love to move to the state of Maine. I told them to move north of the Kennebec River. South of the Kennebec River I have my questions LOL. I hope you're having a great weekend thank you for the great comment. Tom
Good video Tom. I sure hope the people of Maine listen to your advice. On that note I wish your advice was heard and heeded all across these United States of ours. I often wondered why they move here? People even come to America for a better life, they get into politics and try and change America to what they left behind. People don’t buy into their crap! Thanks again for a good video. How is your wife feeling? Hope all is well with your family. Hershel
Good evening Hershel, :) Thank you! :) I think I'm preaching to the choir but I had some stuff I needed to get off my chest that day at the cabin. I really hope some people listening I do think that there is a silent majority in this country. It really is time to stop voting for these Foolish people with their foolish ideas. Never in my lifetime did I ever think that we were this close to becoming a Socialist Communist country. The changes they want to make exactly like you say make it like where they came from. Especially if they are from a different country what the heck is up with that. If life in their communist country was so great then why did they ever want to leave it and all they have to do is move back. I'm saying that with as much love as I possibly can but I do believe it is come time to push back. I hope you and your family are having a great week my wife is still recovering going to take a little while. I really appreciate you keeping us in your prayers last week. I hope you and your family are having a great week I got a feeling you're going to like the next video coming out soon I'm not sure yet if it'll be Wednesday or next Sunday. Shooting Lanes from a tree stand. I get a kick out of you watching these videos because I know that you know this stuff as much as I do but I'm only trying to get it down for the young people that I trying to learn this craft. Being a solo Hunter Country Boy Will Survive type Hunter truly is a craft. Tom
East Grand Woodsman good day Tom, keep preaching some are listening. lol I find the more I learn about things whether its outdoors related, life related or political, or whatever the case is. I find more I haven’t learned. All we can do is keep on learning and teaching others, hopefully we all will become the wiser. Me and my family are all doing good. Glad you’re wife is recovering and will be back to chasing you with the broom. Ha ha. Sorry I had to say it. 😂 Have a good week buddy. Hershel
Good evening Hershel, :) I'm the same way my friend I learn something new everyday and I feel that if I haven't learned something new I feel like I'm falling behind.
I totally agree with you and your views, Tom. I've seen it happen as well. City folks with big money moving into farming country because of the open spaces and beauty of the surrounding lands. The first things they begin to do is complain about the "odors" coming from the farms, i.e. Manure fragrances. These are all the ways of farming areas. They should either get used to them or move back to the cities. I live in a city which used to be an industrial city. Because of the liberal majority around here, most all manufacturing has moved away or closed down. Our major automobile assembly plant moved to the next town over to get away from them. It is sad. Now they want to increase property taxes to keep and improve the city going forward. There is no end to this because there are mostly liberal minded people here now. One cannot even sell their home without a point of sale, city inspection, which costs additional fees not easily afforded. They get you coming and going. Keep up the wonderful videos Tom and good luck in the coming deer season. Thanks. Ohio.
Good evening Wayne, Thank you! :) boy I couldn't agree with you more if all they want to do is come here does this state or any other state make changes to it to make it like where they came from then they just need to go back home. That's no big deal the changes that they want have already taken place in the state that they came from. I hope you're having a great evening my friend! Tom
Tom......my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father and my brother are buried in Gorham, ME. I was born in Gorham and raised in Westbrook. I now live in Florida. Am i still a Mainer?
Great video Tom. Point well made!!! I was born in southern Maine and have lived on the same piece of land for all of my 65 years. Am proud to have done that. Have been to the north many times,hunting and fishing. Wonderful country. Wanted to move there when I retired but I am stuck down here because of a disability, so my dream has been put to the wayside. Now, my point of this message to you people of the north country is do not let happen up there what has happened down here for the last 50 years. Most of our wood’s here either have been put into housing development or posted no trespassing. An awful shame. So if possible try to keep your part of this state as beautiful as I and many others remember. Dig your heels in and fight a good fight. Take care Tom and keep getting the message out there. Stay safe, stay strong and stay healthy.
Good evening Albert, Thank you very much for the kind words. :) My friend I couldn't agree with you more about digging our heels in we're trying. That's what I like the most about northern Maine for the most part it's not posted yet not all of it anyways. I know what you mean about southern and Central Maine seems like it's all built up and what's not built up it's posted. That really is a terrible shame four Maine because of our Rich heritage up hunting. Thank you very much for the comment I apologize for taking so long to get back to you on such a great comment. My wife had to have surgery a week ago. But I loved your comment you wanted to get back to you. I hope you and your family are having a great week! Tom
Great video Tom I couldn't imagine going some where new acting like I'm one of them and trying to change things. Just wrong people have no respect anymore. It's sad.
Good evening Scott, I know it I can't even imagine moving in from away I'm trying to make changes. It has been happening here in Maine for many many years nothing new. We have right now is liberals moving in want to make the state like the way they came from unbelievable. Tom
Good evening Cheryl thank you very much! :) I was in the mood that day outside the cabin had something I needed to get off my chest. I am really at the point where I am fed up with all of this. :) It really made my day to see your comment thank you so much LOL Tom
I totally get what you're saying Tom. We have so much of the same crap going on here, all our freedoms gone, it's a worldwide disease. I love your freedom sticks, it's a pity that the governments here took them away from us. Please keep fighting for your rights and don't end up like Australia. 👍❤
Good evening Arielle, Thank you very much! :) I liked your comment so much and I think it fits so well with what's going on in this country right now that I absolutely wanted to pin It To The Top on this video. You don't have to worry about us we are going to fight this will not be a pushover. The silent majority will step forward and take care of this minority with big mouths. I am very sure of that. Tom
Good stuff Tom! And I hear you! Down here in the rural areas they mostly look negatively at people from NY. And I get it, but not everyone leaves a state to recreate it where they go. I try to explain that. I came here to embrace their culture, not change it. I left a communist state to live in a free one! To be honest with you my brother, I despise change! Well most of it anyway, because it usually is negative to how I want to live my life! Lol
Well Tom, we are going to butt heads on this... I'm a FLORIDIAN, and I don't give a rats Ass if I came "from Away", 😉👍 But I don't try to Change Florida by running for Office, I Moved here Because I loved Florida since the First Time I saw it, and I Always knew that it would be my Home someday... Even after all my Family that lived in Florida Died, I still haven't moved, It's not that I wouldn't like to live around Family, I just can't bear to leave Florida... 🤗❤😊
Good morning CLC, Hahahaha :) I said summer going to like what I've got to say and some are not going to like what I've got to say. Lol :) here in Maine it is very easy to get on Town Council also to be voted in on the legislature. Then from there it is a downhill slide making major changes to the way life should be here in the state of Maine. Why are you butting heads with me Hahahaha :) I'm not talking about Florida. :) But I do have this one question for you if you started to walk down the street in Florida and pop a squirrel or 2 out of an oak tree. Would your neighbors call the cops or would they help you cook it? CLC you have made my day. I hope that you are having a great day! Tom PS, my wife will butt heads with me on this one also my wife and her family are from away 40 + years ago LOL
I remember a time when successful deer hunters used to hang their deer in the backyard trees. It was done to cool their game and age it slightly as well as have friends and neighbors revel in the tales of the hunt and admire their good fortune. Today, you never see a deer hanging in the town. It has become almost a crime to subject anyone to a see a carcass of a dead animal that has been harvested. We are asked to hide from sight our success as if it is something shameful. ( at least in the eyes of liberals) The only time they want to see meat is on their plate in a fancy restaurant. lol... Thanks for listening.
Good evening, boy you're right you still see a few around here but nowhere is near like you used to. I remember the day when people respected the Hunter. It really was a big deal to be a hunter and if you was a successful Hunter they would lift you up. I'm afraid the tree hungers and leftist Communist party that's trying to take over this country don't view the self-reliant Hunter the same way. They are after the self-reliant people that have built this country and built businesses and trying to shut them down. In this state the Democratic governor is doing all she can do to break the backs of the people on this date you can bet your bottom dollar. But I'm telling you the people of this state still have a backbone at least in northern Maine and the second district can kick the first district ass if we can get out the vote. I hope you're having a great week you and your family thank you for checking out this video and leaving a comment. You brought me down memory lane with deer hanging in trees and the great pride that went along with that. Tom
Amen Tom!, Well-spoken about people from away coming here and trying to change our state to a place that they have left for one reason or another. I educate myself very well before I vote for anybody now. Sadly it has become the lesser of two evils these days. It makes you not even want to vote. Sadly yu end up voting for one just to keep the other one from getting in even though neither is truly what you want. God Bless and Good Hunting!
Good morning Joseph, Thank you very much! :) I couldn't agree with you more my friend. It is Southern Maine that votes these clowns in then the second district which is northern Maine. Northern Maine has been doing a better job at voting down some of the crap. What I mean by northern Maine is north of the Kennebec River. Tom
hi tom i am just like you i have lived here all my life born and raised 70years i now think after the first fight over bear hunting we have 2 parts in this state southern part is known as little massachusetts . northen is the only place that is still mainers. a mainer that was a bear guide that was in big trouble with if&w all the time started that whole mess from out of stater coming in with there money to stop huntting bear. now the first thing that out of stater do is post there land and don't want any one on it. now for huntting on sunday governor baldacci was all for it the maine sportsman ass. pushed for it. now i know a lot about this as i as on the maine trappers ass board (not me ) as i wanted to hunt on sunday the mta was not for it and gave 3 thousand dollars to help stop it so trappers could trap one day a week with out hunters also maine wood lot ass. did not want it as people that own land wanted to walk on there land and not get shot at. 4 thousand more from them so it not just one sided that wants change here. you are right as my little town of 500 the town is all out of stater on the board. and it is 3 to 1 me 3 out of stater sorry for being long winded but this is a hot item with me. keep up the good job i fine myself going over your viedos time again
Good evening Enos, I couldn't agree with you more about southern Maine versus northern Maine Southern Maine is mostly transplants with lots of money and leftist Views and Democratic votes. That's why this crap keeps getting passed in this state but the second district can out vote them if they just pay attention. If it wasn't for the second district we would have lost our bear hunting rights a few years ago. Now we need to get rid of the rank Choice voting I was so hoping that was going to make it on the ballot this year. This ranked-choice voting is just another way for the Democrats to steal the vote don't let them kid you. This is what the Democratic party has come to conniving ways to steal the American vote is happening right before our eyes. They buy land in our state and post it immediately and here's the worst part they post it and never walk on it again. You have a great week! Tom
Listen, Don't categorize all of us from down south as "little Mass". We don't appreciate what they do either. Just be cause we "were a closer commute" we were overrun first. The housing market prices had something to do with that as well. They jacked the prices up so high a local couldn't buy but the people from the cities could roll right in and grab everything. I have lived in southern Maine my entire life. I hunt and fish and follow everything Tom said in the video. I love "up north" and as I don't get up there as often as I like, I also love where I'm at. We have the same issues as you do up there, but ten fold because we were easier access. That's one thing I have always thought was odd of our wonderful state, if you live below the Augusta line your not considered a "True Mainer". Well, I have news for ya, I'm just as much a Mainer that appreciates our heritage and way of life as anyone who is from "the county". We should be fighting the ones who come in and want change, not each other.
@@bensmith5430 Good afternoon Ben, :) You are absolutely right you and all of the coastal people all the way up to Eastern Maine. Local people cannot afford coastal property. It's happening again right now all the way up into the county. People from a way of purchasing property site unseen 20 30 $40000 above sticker. This crap is rolling our way like a steam roller. I know exactly how you feel When it comes to voting being outnumbered There is a lot of good mainer in Southern Maine And central Maine. It's just when it comes to the way people vote you wouldn't know it. I think we've got a real problem on our hands in this state right now as I'm sure you already know from living South of the Kennebec river. Now that they passed that ranked choice voting it's going to be very difficult to change anything in this state back to normal. You have a great day my friend thank you for getting in on this comment it's a real eye opener. Tom
as for all true maine people and you are i didn't say you are from out of maine I said that both sides are trying to change our way of life and if you want to live in that mess you can. as for vetoer if it was just maine vetoing you would see that the veto would come in heavy from the south not for anything but change that is where the money is. and they think they own all of us and maine. sorry you took it the wrong way.
No true word's were ever spoken I tell them go back where you came from it's happening I always throw them a curve ball let them pay to try to change me I don't think so
Had to pause on this. I’ve enjoyed your videos....and while I understand what you’re saying there is a segment of folks like myself who do wish we could live in Maine and want to keep things as they are. As a cabin owner and land owner in this state I have supported Maine for a very long time. I’m as much of a Mainer in my heart as anyone. Location doesn’t mean you’re not a Mainer...it’s just where life put some of us. There is a hyper sensitivity by those born in Maine who believe anyone else doesn’t really belong. We welcome you but don’t overstay your welcome. I feel “out of staters” have taken the bad rap for poor decisions in the state for years. Lumbering companies have been allowed by the state to clear cut beyond repair many hundreds and thousands of acres including the wintering yards of deer. The management of Maines best natural resources have been poorly managed by those who are suppose to be Mainers. Maine itself hasn’t done a great job of managing it’s own natural resources.....and that has been a long time in the works. Here is the sham...liberals have been allowed to come into Vermont, Maine , and NH and they are indeed the ones changing your heritage and culture. There are out of staters who truly love the state of Maine and it’s traditions and the rich heritage there....and then you have the Imposters in my opinion....those are the ones moving in that want to change your culture. I don’t think, by in large it’s the non resident camp owners who want this kind change at all. That’s just my opinion. You are right about one thing...if you want to keep your heritage you Mainers better start getting involved in state legislature and stop the imposters from taking over.
Good morning Turingleaf, Thank you very much for your comment. Some of what you have to say I agree with you 100%. And some of what you have to say I totally disagree with you. Mainly when it comes to the Liberals that are trying to run the state right now I totally agree with you. I also agree with you about Camp owners and people that come to this state that totally love this state as much as I do. That is not the problem that we've been having for at least the last dozen years or so cuz out-of-staters coming into the state and as I said in the video is bringing their crap with them. That they are moving away from. I can see in your comment that you do get it to a degree. I was not attacking any of the people that love this state and the tradition as much as we do. Here's where I totally disagree with you the management of the Maine Forest. I am 100% for clear cutting. I've been watching clearcuts and clear-cutting since I was a boy. I have hunted the great North Woods from when the clear cuts was as far as the eye could see. Back in the 1980s you could drive anywhere in northern Maine and count 50 60 moose easily in a two-day ride that was when clearcuts were able to be clear-cuts. What does this mean? What this means is food for deer moose rabbits bears everything you can imagine in the Maine Forest thrives off of clear-cut. I realized to you this Probably sounds ridiculous but here me out it's not ridiculous. The very next spring after a clear-cut saplings start to grow hardwood saplings the best there is for moose food and deer feed in the winter months doesn't get any better than that by the following year these saplings will be 6 to 10 ft tall in the winter months that is the food that makes up the Maine Forest for our WildLife. The other thing that clear-cuts gets us is raspberry bushes raspberry bushes are the main feed for the Maine black bear during the summer months. Also those clearcuts we could hunt black bear with great success. Also ruffled grouse love raspberries. Within 5 years of a clearcut it will be 10 to 20 ft tall lots and lots of natural feed for our wildlife. I hope this explains to you why I feel that Maine has managed its Forest exclusively for cutting wood and the side result from this is we have lots and lots of natural food for our animals as well as places to hunt. Without the cutting wood for paper mills we do not have roads or Bridges or Road repair in the great North Woods without these roads and bridges there would be no hunting in northern Maine. The other result from not having paper companies that manage our forest is that the great North Woods would be bought up from out-of-staters liberals that make up the majority of Southern Maine now. The great North Woods would be posted no trespassing no hunting no snowmobiling no 4-wheeling. This is happening as we speak with the purchase of I believe 80,000 acres south of Baxter State Park now shut off from cutting wood bear hunting deer hunting snowmobiles and four-wheelers. They give it a fancy name but it's just another name for no trespassing. The short-term results of not haveng clear cutting or paper mills that manage our forest. Is exactly what we have going on right now in northern Maine starvation of Wildlife you no longer can go north of Greenville Maine and count 50-60 moose in a weekend. Have you ever asked yourself why? It's called lack of food when we went to the tiny little cuts of today they're no longer is the huge resource of natural saplings that come back from a clear-cut of the size during the 80s. Take this from someone that is hunted clearcuts and the great North Woods for close to 50 years. There is no animal good quality animal food in a mature Forest. The only way to keep a forest full of good quality natural food is with the forest management practices of the past not this crap that we've got going on now. we can thank every tree hugger from here to California with a forest management that we have today but it is not working in the North Maine Woods for our animal population. As to your question about mainers we have tried to fight this as I said in my video and in many videos in the past but with millions and millions of dollars flooding into this state and changing our traditions this state is made up of a million residence also with very limited income so with outside money it does not take much two drowned a million mainers with outside influence. as I said in this video millions and millions of dollars coming into this state right now to send liberal Jared golden to Washington and liberal Sara Gideon to Washington. there's only so much a million Maine residents can do against outside influences with this kind of money you should realize that as much as I do. a few years ago we had to fight like hell to keep our bear hunt from outside money and outside resources Maine people stood up Maine people voted and we won that time. But what is next coming down the pike for the Maine people to push back on now it is ranked Choice voting. we tried like hell to get that on the ballot for this November and once again we have been beat back. this was thrust upon us a few years ago from outside money and Outsiders the majority of this state does not want ranked-choice voting but as always now that this is a part of the way that we vote Maine people are in trouble. so getting back to if I offended you or not this video was meant to offend some people not all but mainly it was a wake-up call for all of us if you are a camp owner or an outsider that comes to the state these are the practices that have worked for this state for hundreds of years. I say this to say this there are lots more changes to coming. We're just at the tip of the iceberg. I've heard what they doing and working on to change the way that we deer hunt in this state it is not pretty. I'm not going to end this comment I just don't know how to end it. 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I am from Maine, right up by beaver creek. Maine was built on wood products, plastics (oil industry) have taken away the wood industry and we keep drinking their kool aid. Just voted down the corridor, that helped oil. Both my parents worked in the mills of northern Maine, raised me to hunt and fish. I am passing that on to my kids. I could eat a deer liver when I was a kid, not anymore, it’s filled with pfas and other toxins from all the plastics in the air, in the water. No one is coming for your guns, the oil industry is using the gun lobby to put their candidates in office. Follow the money Tom. The one thing that effects me passing my heritage on the most is land access, please stop posting your land, you are only borrowing it for a while, let other people enjoy what little is left of the land, and stop putting plastic signs all over it. Love your videos. Appreciate your point of view. I am a gun carrying, buck hunting, partridge shooting, perch filleting Democrat who knows we are a lot closer than what our fascist media likes to paint us. Keep up the good work Tom. Can’t get enough of your videos. Have a good one!
Good morning, Thank you very much! :) yes you're absolutely right I do believe voting down that power corridor it's right up there with one of the more foolish things at this state has voted. Like you said they're still drinking the Kool-Aid. Whenever it comes to business in this state they always vote it down it's that not in my backyard mentality.
Voting down the power corridor and the big propane station on the coast years ago is why we have to pay big prices everything in this state.
I look at that power Corridor is a big food plot for all of the animals think about it couple hundred feet wide field the length of the power line grass has all kinds of stuff for the deer are rabbits everything as well as a great place to hunt. Lots of people hunt the power lines during deer season.
On top of that it will produce some great power for the state of Maine not just Massachusetts. As you can tell I've got a lot to say about that power line LOL stupid stupid stupid vote.
Very good for you passing it on to your kids that's exactly what I am doing with my grandsons.
You're absolutely right about posting land in the last couple of years I have never seen so many posted signs going up. I have a feeling it's from outside is buying up big chunks of land and the first thing that they do is slap up posted signs.
Well if you are a gun carrying buck hunting Partridge shooting perch fishing Democrat you are more than welcome on this channel LOL Hahahaha
Thank you for all the kind words about the channel I do try to keep it real. This is how I live and have always lived.
I hope you have a great day!
Tom
the Democrat thing.....got it.
I couldn't agree with you more. It saddens me and angers me at the same time. There is a desease in this world and it's spreading like a cancer. You're 100% right. Mainers have to wake up and save their traditions and so do all Americans God bless.
Good evening luis, Thank you very much! :) I couldn't agree with you more my friend!
We all need to stop being so passive because we're getting run over by a bunch of Thieves and Crooks.
Well said!
Hello Piggy, Thank you very much! :) Tom
As an out of stater who owns land in Maine and loves to hunt and fish! I agree with you Tom.
Even I can’t understand why people who claim they love Maine come in and want to change it and the politics. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that another like minded person like yourself agrees, even being “the out of stater.”
Good morning Jared, Welcome to the Great State of Maine! :) yes it is a very funny thing that they do especially in Southern Maine. I don't understand it either. Yes I have some out-of-state of friends and we all think alike and we all work towards the same goal.
Nice to meet you Jared thank you very much for stopping by I hope you had a cup of coffee with me. Lol
Tom
@@EastGrandWoodsman I’m really enjoying your channel Tom! I definitely did have a coffee with you, and now will have many more! Looking forward to catching up on your videos now that I found your channel ☕️
Good Afternoon, I'm glad you found us! stay tune to the channel I've got something really big coming out in a couple of weeks :) I'm just tying up some loose ends before I go public.
Tom
Good morning Tom. Been a while since I made any comments. You are absolutely right brother. They've been doing the same thing here. Getting into local gov't. to change things. We don't want it either. But it don't matter to them what WE the People want. To me nature is a lot more civilized than human society. I'm going back to the woods. Another fine informative video Tom. See you soon.
Good evening Wayne, Thank you Wayne. I couldn't agree with you more my friend.
I'm trying to getting fed up with all of it. Any kind of guy that doesn't like a whole lot of foolishness and I got a feeling we got a lot of foolishness coming our way.
Good for you to get back to Nature that's what I do also and I've had it up to my nostrils.
It's time to dig in like the ticks on a Hound back. I am preparing and I plan to hold my ground. Great to hear from you Wayne. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I believe I'm preaching to the choir videos like this. I'm not sure the rest of the country's got the stomach for it or if they're even listening.
You have a great week my friend.
Tom
@R L Shorty Thank you much brother.
Great video Tom! This is just not a Maine problem,its a every state problem! I'm from Texas born and raised(63yrs old). One of our problems,for the outdoor person here,(is the use and abuse).You can go to the woods or lake,you can see where people have been,from the trash they have left. Coming home yesterday,i saw where someone threw out the Teal they had killed on the side of the road. It is very saddening to see this! People have no morals anymore!
Good evening , I couldn't agree with you more my friend we all need to take heed what's going on right now in this country. It's the same way here with trash it's unbelievable how much trash is Left Behind white people that say they love the country it really is quite saddening.
I hope you and your family are having a great week thank you very much for the comment it is greatly appreciated.
Tom
I totally agree with everything you said Tom ! I'm from away an moved up here many years ago and absolutely love the people, traditions and way of life here and have no desire to see anything change.
Well said, wake up people!
Hello David, Thank you very much! :)
Tom
Well said, we have the same problem here.
Good evening, I think it's happening all over.
That’s so true and so sad . They want changes for their own righteous ways. Me me me me me me me me. Awful
Passive makes for easy change. You should post a list all those people to watch out for
Good evening Anthony, Thank you very much! :) I couldn't agree with you more my friend!
Spot on Tom thank you for speaking out 👍🎏🦌🇺🇸
The Vermonter
Great video Tom, i enjoyed it. Trying to catch up, been busy!! Thanks my friend for sharing!!
Good afternoon Larry, Thank you very much! :) Hahaha Same here trying to catch up on my comments. Thank you very much for being a part of the channel! Tom
Coming from Michigan, I hear you brother! Good bless!
Listen to Stan Rogers fisherman's wharf. It hits on exactly what you are talking about.
Good morning Zachary, Thank you very much! :) I'll have to look him up. I hope you're having a great day!
Tom
Love you’re videos. Spent the last few days skimming you’re videos and watching them. I’m a young New Hampshireite that loves to go up to the County and the North Maine Woods and recreate.
Good morning Andrew, Thank you very much checking out the channel.
That's great you get to check out the North Maine Woods. That is some of my favorite grounds to hunt and fish.
You said your young. How old are you.
I'm always interested in young people getting into this lifestyle. It has been a great way to spend my life.
I have been building up Beaver Creek Deer Hunting Camp the last couple of years. It's almost ready for hunting and trapping.
I'll have plenty of bear hunting and trapping videos coming out soon you might be interested in.
Thank you for the great comment.
Tom
God bless you you’re a true patriot keep it up fight for what you believe here in New Jersey the newcomers took our way of life away
Good morning Nicholas, Thank you very much! The saying same thing is happening here. Some newcomers not all. But some of them absolutely try to change the way we live here in the state of Maine. Especially when it comes to our hunting and fishing and right to own firearms.
That's one of the reasons I started my channel many years ago as well as the patreon channel so that I can share my thoughts on retaining our traditions and lifestyle here in the state of Maine.
I hope you're having a great day!
Tom
Great video ! I have had conversations about this topic on more than one occasion. I have family in Maine and my camp is in Maine but I have to wait a few more years till I retire before I move. I have made some great friends with many native mainers over the years, and your right about being welcome with open arms. But I also realize it's my responsibility to respect and learn the ways of Maine if I want to continue to be welcomed.
Good evening James, you got it my friend! :) it's just as so many people are moving to the state and they get on the town councils in the capital in Augusta now they trying to send one to Washington is one of our Senators. I think that's what got under my skin a little bit with this video it was on my mind Sara Gideon from Rhode Island. Is a typical example someone from away that's trying to change everything about the state of Maine.
I'd like to call her a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You got the right idea my friend you will be welcome in the state. I look forward to the day when you tell me you have finally moved I know that there are a lot of my viewers I would love to move to the state of Maine. I told them to move north of the Kennebec River. South of the Kennebec River I have my questions LOL.
I hope you're having a great weekend thank you for the great comment.
Tom
I’m from New Hampshire, and I love the state of Maine! And in my opinion you need to get rid of your Governor ASAP!
Good morning, Thank you! I couldn't agree with you more we need a new governor faster than ASAP.
I hope you're having a great day!
Tom
Good video Tom. I sure hope the people of Maine listen to your advice.
On that note I wish your advice was heard and heeded all across these United States of ours.
I often wondered why they move here? People even come to America for a better life, they get into politics and try and change America to what they left behind. People don’t buy into their crap!
Thanks again for a good video. How is your wife feeling? Hope all is well with your family. Hershel
Good evening Hershel, :) Thank you! :) I think I'm preaching to the choir but I had some stuff I needed to get off my chest that day at the cabin. I really hope some people listening I do think that there is a silent majority in this country. It really is time to stop voting for these Foolish people with their foolish ideas. Never in my lifetime did I ever think that we were this close to becoming a Socialist Communist country.
The changes they want to make exactly like you say make it like where they came from. Especially if they are from a different country what the heck is up with that.
If life in their communist country was so great then why did they ever want to leave it and all they have to do is move back. I'm saying that with as much love as I possibly can but I do believe it is come time to push back.
I hope you and your family are having a great week my wife is still recovering going to take a little while. I really appreciate you keeping us in your prayers last week.
I hope you and your family are having a great week I got a feeling you're going to like the next video coming out soon I'm not sure yet if it'll be Wednesday or next Sunday. Shooting Lanes from a tree stand. I get a kick out of you watching these videos because I know that you know this stuff as much as I do but I'm only trying to get it down for the young people that I trying to learn this craft. Being a solo Hunter Country Boy Will Survive type Hunter truly is a craft.
Tom
East Grand Woodsman good day Tom, keep preaching some are listening. lol
I find the more I learn about things whether its outdoors related, life related or political, or whatever the case is. I find more I haven’t learned. All we can do is keep on learning and teaching others, hopefully we all will become the wiser.
Me and my family are all doing good.
Glad you’re wife is recovering and will be back to chasing you with the broom. Ha ha. Sorry I had to say it. 😂
Have a good week buddy. Hershel
Good evening Hershel, :) I'm the same way my friend I learn something new everyday and I feel that if I haven't learned something new I feel like I'm falling behind.
Thumbs up Tom proud to be born and raised in Maine
Same here we live in a Great State for the things we like.
Making the rounds on your playlist and playing your ads...Happy Thursday! :) Much love!
I totally agree with you and your views, Tom. I've seen it happen as well. City folks with big money moving into farming country because of the open spaces and beauty of the surrounding lands. The first things they begin to do is complain about the "odors" coming from the farms, i.e. Manure fragrances. These are all the ways of farming areas. They should either get used to them or move back to the cities. I live in a city which used to be an industrial city. Because of the liberal majority around here, most all manufacturing has moved away or closed down. Our major automobile assembly plant moved to the next town over to get away from them. It is sad. Now they want to increase property taxes to keep and improve the city going forward. There is no end to this because there are mostly liberal minded people here now. One cannot even sell their home without a point of sale, city inspection, which costs additional fees not easily afforded. They get you coming and going. Keep up the wonderful videos Tom and good luck in the coming deer season. Thanks. Ohio.
Good evening Wayne, Thank you! :) boy I couldn't agree with you more if all they want to do is come here does this state or any other state make changes to it to make it like where they came from then they just need to go back home. That's no big deal the changes that they want have already taken place in the state that they came from.
I hope you're having a great evening my friend!
Tom
Keep fighting the East-West highway!!!!!!
Tom......my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father and my brother are buried in Gorham, ME. I was born in Gorham and raised in Westbrook. I now live in Florida. Am i still a Mainer?
Hello Richard, Thank you very much! :) Hahahahahaha that all depends are you planning moving back anytime soon? Lol
Just because the cat had her kittens in the oven doesn’t mean their biscuits.
Good evening, Thank you! :) you got that right.
Great video Tom. Point well made!!! I was born in southern Maine and have lived on the same piece of land for all of my 65 years. Am proud to have done that. Have been to the north many times,hunting and fishing. Wonderful country. Wanted to move there when I retired but I am stuck down here because of a disability, so my dream has been put to the wayside. Now, my point of this message to you people of the north country is do not let happen up there what has happened down here for the last 50 years. Most of our wood’s here either have been put into housing development or posted no trespassing. An awful shame. So if possible try to keep your part of this state as beautiful as I and many others remember. Dig your heels in and fight a good fight. Take care Tom and keep getting the message out there. Stay safe, stay strong and stay healthy.
Good evening Albert, Thank you very much for the kind words. :) My friend I couldn't agree with you more about digging our heels in we're trying. That's what I like the most about northern Maine for the most part it's not posted yet not all of it anyways. I know what you mean about southern and Central Maine seems like it's all built up and what's not built up it's posted. That really is a terrible shame four Maine because of our Rich heritage up hunting. Thank you very much for the comment I apologize for taking so long to get back to you on such a great comment. My wife had to have surgery a week ago.
But I loved your comment you wanted to get back to you.
I hope you and your family are having a great week!
Tom
Great video Tom I couldn't imagine going some where new acting like I'm one of them and trying to change things. Just wrong people have no respect anymore. It's sad.
Good evening Scott, I know it I can't even imagine moving in from away I'm trying to make changes. It has been happening here in Maine for many many years nothing new.
We have right now is liberals moving in want to make the state like the way they came from unbelievable.
Tom
Awesome video Tom!!!
Good evening Michael, Thank you very much! :)
love this Tom!
Good evening Cheryl thank you very much! :) I was in the mood that day outside the cabin had something I needed to get off my chest. I am really at the point where I am fed up with all of this. :)
It really made my day to see your comment thank you so much LOL
Tom
I totally get what you're saying Tom. We have so much of the same crap going on here, all our freedoms gone, it's a worldwide disease. I love your freedom sticks, it's a pity that the governments here took them away from us. Please keep fighting for your rights and don't end up like Australia. 👍❤
Good evening Arielle, Thank you very much! :) I liked your comment so much and I think it fits so well with what's going on in this country right now that I absolutely wanted to pin It To The Top on this video. You don't have to worry about us we are going to fight this will not be a pushover. The silent majority will step forward and take care of this minority with big mouths. I am very sure of that.
Tom
@@EastGrandWoodsman ❤🇺🇲
Good stuff Tom! And I hear you! Down here in the rural areas they mostly look negatively at people from NY. And I get it, but not everyone leaves a state to recreate it where they go. I try to explain that. I came here to embrace their culture, not change it. I left a communist state to live in a free one! To be honest with you my brother, I despise change! Well most of it anyway, because it usually is negative to how I want to live my life! Lol
Well Tom, we are going to butt heads on this... I'm a FLORIDIAN, and I don't give a rats Ass if I came "from Away", 😉👍 But I don't try to Change Florida by running for Office, I Moved here Because I loved Florida since the First Time I saw it, and I Always knew that it would be my Home someday... Even after all my Family that lived in Florida Died, I still haven't moved, It's not that I wouldn't like to live around Family, I just can't bear to leave Florida... 🤗❤😊
Good morning CLC, Hahahaha :) I said summer going to like what I've got to say and some are not going to like what I've got to say. Lol :) here in Maine it is very easy to get on Town Council also to be voted in on the legislature. Then from there it is a downhill slide making major changes to the way life should be here in the state of Maine.
Why are you butting heads with me Hahahaha :) I'm not talking about Florida. :)
But I do have this one question for you if you started to walk down the street in Florida and pop a squirrel or 2 out of an oak tree. Would your neighbors call the cops or would they help you cook it?
CLC you have made my day. I hope that you are having a great day!
Tom
PS, my wife will butt heads with me on this one also my wife and her family are from away 40 + years ago LOL
I remember a time when successful deer hunters used to hang their deer in the backyard trees. It was done to cool their game and age it slightly as well as have friends and neighbors revel in the tales of the hunt and admire their good fortune. Today, you never see a deer hanging in the town. It has become almost a crime to subject anyone to a see a carcass of a dead animal that has been harvested. We are asked to hide from sight our success as if it is something shameful. ( at least in the eyes of liberals) The only time they want to see meat is on their plate in a fancy restaurant. lol... Thanks for listening.
Good evening, boy you're right you still see a few around here but nowhere is near like you used to. I remember the day when people respected the Hunter. It really was a big deal to be a hunter and if you was a successful Hunter they would lift you up.
I'm afraid the tree hungers and leftist Communist party that's trying to take over this country don't view the self-reliant Hunter the same way.
They are after the self-reliant people that have built this country and built businesses and trying to shut them down. In this state the Democratic governor is doing all she can do to break the backs of the people on this date you can bet your bottom dollar.
But I'm telling you the people of this state still have a backbone at least in northern Maine and the second district can kick the first district ass if we can get out the vote.
I hope you're having a great week you and your family thank you for checking out this video and leaving a comment. You brought me down memory lane with deer hanging in trees and the great pride that went along with that.
Tom
Amen Tom!, Well-spoken about people from away coming here and trying to change our state to a place that they have left for one reason or another. I educate myself very well before I vote for anybody now. Sadly it has become the lesser of two evils these days. It makes you not even want to vote. Sadly yu end up voting for one just to keep the other one from getting in even though neither is truly what you want. God Bless and Good Hunting!
I totally agree 100%! I'm from Jersey. Mainers need to stand up for them. But Mainers vote them butt clowns in.
Good morning Joseph, Thank you very much! :) I couldn't agree with you more my friend.
It is Southern Maine that votes these clowns in then the second district which is northern Maine. Northern Maine has been doing a better job at voting down some of the crap. What I mean by northern Maine is north of the Kennebec River.
Tom
hi tom i am just like you i have lived here all my life born and raised 70years i now think after the first fight over bear hunting we have 2 parts in this state southern part is known as little massachusetts . northen is the only place that is still mainers. a mainer that was a bear guide that was in big trouble with if&w all the time started that whole mess from out of stater coming in with there money to stop huntting bear. now the first thing that out of stater do is post there land and don't want any one on it. now for huntting on sunday governor baldacci was all for it the maine sportsman ass. pushed for it. now i know a lot about this as i as on the maine trappers ass board (not me ) as i wanted to hunt on sunday the mta was not for it and gave 3 thousand dollars to help stop it so trappers could trap one day a week with out hunters also maine wood lot ass. did not want it as people that own land wanted to walk on there land and not get shot at. 4 thousand more from them so it not just one sided that wants change here. you are right as my little town of 500 the town is all out of stater on the board. and it is 3 to 1 me 3 out of stater sorry for being long winded but this is a hot item with me. keep up the good job i fine myself going over your viedos time again
Good evening Enos, I couldn't agree with you more about southern Maine versus northern Maine Southern Maine is mostly transplants with lots of money and leftist Views and Democratic votes. That's why this crap keeps getting passed in this state but the second district can out vote them if they just pay attention. If it wasn't for the second district we would have lost our bear hunting rights a few years ago. Now we need to get rid of the rank Choice voting I was so hoping that was going to make it on the ballot this year. This ranked-choice voting is just another way for the Democrats to steal the vote don't let them kid you. This is what the Democratic party has come to conniving ways to steal the American vote is happening right before our eyes.
They buy land in our state and post it immediately and here's the worst part they post it and never walk on it again.
You have a great week!
Tom
Listen, Don't categorize all of us from down south as "little Mass". We don't appreciate what they do either. Just be cause we "were a closer commute" we were overrun first. The housing market prices had something to do with that as well. They jacked the prices up so high a local couldn't buy but the people from the cities could roll right in and grab everything. I have lived in southern Maine my entire life. I hunt and fish and follow everything Tom said in the video. I love "up north" and as I don't get up there as often as I like, I also love where I'm at. We have the same issues as you do up there, but ten fold because we were easier access. That's one thing I have always thought was odd of our wonderful state, if you live below the Augusta line your not considered a "True Mainer". Well, I have news for ya, I'm just as much a Mainer that appreciates our heritage and way of life as anyone who is from "the county". We should be fighting the ones who come in and want change, not each other.
@@bensmith5430 Good afternoon Ben, :)
You are absolutely right you and all of the coastal people all the way up to Eastern Maine. Local people cannot afford coastal property. It's happening again right now all the way up into the county. People from a way of purchasing property site unseen 20 30 $40000 above sticker. This crap is rolling our way like a steam roller. I know exactly how you feel When it comes to voting being outnumbered There is a lot of good mainer in Southern Maine And central Maine. It's just when it comes to the way people vote you wouldn't know it. I think we've got a real problem on our hands in this state right now as I'm sure you already know from living South of the Kennebec river. Now that they passed that ranked choice voting it's going to be very difficult to change anything in this state back to normal. You have a great day my friend thank you for getting in on this comment it's a real eye opener.
Tom
as for all true maine people and you are i didn't say you are from out of maine I said that both sides are trying to change our way of life and if you want to live in that mess you can. as for vetoer if it was just maine vetoing you would see that the veto would come in heavy from the south not for anything but change that is where the money is. and they think they own all of us and maine. sorry you took it the wrong way.
No true word's were ever spoken I tell them go back where you came from it's happening I always throw them a curve ball let them pay to try to change me I don't think so
Good Afternoon Mark, Hahahaha :) You got that right :)
Had to pause on this. I’ve enjoyed your videos....and while I understand what you’re saying there is a segment of folks like myself who do wish we could live in Maine and want to keep things as they are. As a cabin owner and land owner in this state I have supported Maine for a very long time. I’m as much of a Mainer in my heart as anyone. Location doesn’t mean you’re not a Mainer...it’s just where life put some of us. There is a hyper sensitivity by those born in Maine who believe anyone else doesn’t really belong. We welcome you but don’t overstay your welcome. I feel “out of staters” have taken the bad rap for poor decisions in the state for years. Lumbering companies have been allowed by the state to clear cut beyond repair many hundreds and thousands of acres including the wintering yards of deer. The management of Maines best natural resources have been poorly managed by those who are suppose to be Mainers. Maine itself hasn’t done a great job of managing it’s own natural resources.....and that has been a long time in the works. Here is the sham...liberals have been allowed to come into Vermont, Maine , and NH and they are indeed the ones changing your heritage and culture. There are out of staters who truly love the state of Maine and it’s traditions and the rich heritage there....and then you have the Imposters in my opinion....those are the ones moving in that want to change your culture. I don’t think, by in large it’s the non resident camp owners who want this kind change at all. That’s just my opinion. You are right about one thing...if you want to keep your heritage you Mainers better start getting involved in state legislature and stop the imposters from taking over.
Good morning Turingleaf, Thank you very much for your comment. Some of what you have to say I agree with you 100%. And some of what you have to say I totally disagree with you. Mainly when it comes to the Liberals that are trying to run the state right now I totally agree with you. I also agree with you about Camp owners and people that come to this state that totally love this state as much as I do. That is not the problem that we've been having for at least the last dozen years or so cuz out-of-staters coming into the state and as I said in the video is bringing their crap with them. That they are moving away from. I can see in your comment that you do get it to a degree. I was not attacking any of the people that love this state and the tradition as much as we do.
Here's where I totally disagree with you the management of the Maine Forest. I am 100% for clear cutting. I've been watching clearcuts and clear-cutting since I was a boy. I have hunted the great North Woods from when the clear cuts was as far as the eye could see.
Back in the 1980s you could drive anywhere in northern Maine and count 50 60 moose easily in a two-day ride that was when clearcuts were able to be clear-cuts.
What does this mean?
What this means is food for deer moose rabbits bears everything you can imagine in the Maine Forest thrives off of clear-cut. I realized to you this Probably sounds ridiculous but here me out it's not ridiculous.
The very next spring after a clear-cut saplings start to grow hardwood saplings the best there is for moose food and deer feed in the winter months doesn't get any better than that by the following year these saplings will be 6 to 10 ft tall in the winter months that is the food that makes up the Maine Forest for our WildLife.
The other thing that clear-cuts gets us is raspberry bushes raspberry bushes are the main feed for the Maine black bear during the summer months. Also those clearcuts we could hunt black bear with great success. Also ruffled grouse love raspberries.
Within 5 years of a clearcut it will be 10 to 20 ft tall lots and lots of natural feed for our wildlife.
I hope this explains to you why I feel that Maine has managed its Forest exclusively for cutting wood and the side result from this is we have lots and lots of natural food for our animals as well as places to hunt. Without the cutting wood for paper mills we do not have roads or Bridges or Road repair in the great North Woods without these roads and bridges there would be no hunting in northern Maine.
The other result from not having paper companies that manage our forest is that the great North Woods would be bought up from out-of-staters liberals that make up the majority of Southern Maine now. The great North Woods would be posted no trespassing no hunting no snowmobiling no 4-wheeling. This is happening as we speak with the purchase of I believe 80,000 acres south of Baxter State Park now shut off from cutting wood bear hunting deer hunting snowmobiles and four-wheelers.
They give it a fancy name but it's just another name for no trespassing.
The short-term results of not haveng clear cutting or paper mills that manage our forest. Is exactly what we have going on right now in northern Maine starvation of Wildlife you no longer can go north of Greenville Maine and count 50-60 moose in a weekend.
Have you ever asked yourself why?
It's called lack of food when we went to the tiny little cuts of today they're no longer is the huge resource of natural saplings that come back from a clear-cut of the size during the 80s.
Take this from someone that is hunted clearcuts and the great North Woods for close to 50 years.
There is no animal good quality animal food in a mature Forest. The only way to keep a forest full of good quality natural food is with the forest management practices of the past not this crap that we've got going on now. we can thank every tree hugger from here to California with a forest management that we have today but it is not working in the North Maine Woods for our animal population.
As to your question about mainers we have tried to fight this as I said in my video and in many videos in the past but with millions and millions of dollars flooding into this state and changing our traditions this state is made up of a million residence also with very limited income so with outside money it does not take much two drowned a million mainers with outside influence.
as I said in this video millions and millions of dollars coming into this state right now to send liberal Jared golden to Washington and liberal Sara Gideon to Washington. there's only so much a million Maine residents can do against outside influences with this kind of money you should realize that as much as I do.
a few years ago we had to fight like hell to keep our bear hunt from outside money and outside resources Maine people stood up Maine people voted and we won that time.
But what is next coming down the pike for the Maine people to push back on now it is ranked Choice voting. we tried like hell to get that on the ballot for this November and once again we have been beat back. this was thrust upon us a few years ago from outside money and Outsiders the majority of this state does not want ranked-choice voting but as always now that this is a part of the way that we vote Maine people are in trouble.
so getting back to if I offended you or not this video was meant to offend some people not all but mainly it was a wake-up call for all of us if you are a camp owner or an outsider that comes to the state these are the practices that have worked for this state for hundreds of years.
I say this to say this there are lots more changes to coming. We're just at the tip of the iceberg. I've heard what they doing and working on to change the way that we deer hunt in this state it is not pretty.
I'm not going to end this comment I just don't know how to end it.
I sit on my seat either at the cabin or out in the many ground blinds thatI have and just wonder if there's anything that we can do to change what is headed this way for the state of Maine.
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My father and grandmother were from Maine how did you ever allow Governor to pass that stupid gun law