No sooner had we launched our four canoes in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northernmost Maine than a strong wind arose, barreling down the river from the north, smack in our faces. We had hoped ...

Take a page out of Henry David Thoreau’s book, and paddle on northern Maine’s remote Allagash River. “Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature,” he wrote in The ...

“It’s wild country you’re going into,” said Bob Bull, a SERE trainer. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is training for people whose work might take them into potentially hostile ...

An American elm tree stands in the distance on the shore of the Allagash River in this undated photo. Credit: Courtesy of RJ Heller We have been through a lot these past couple of years. Doubts abound ...

The key to any good trip is planning. Planning is even more important when that trip is to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, where there are no stores, service stations or cellphone coverage. A canoe ...

If it weren’t for Cantillon, America’s beer scene might look entirely different today. The Belgian brewery, founded in 1900 and currently under fourth generation family ownership, is one of a handful ...

LEWISTON, Maine — Northern Maine's Allagash River is no longer on environmentalists? list of the nation's "most endangered" waterways, on which it appeared as No. 8 a year ago. American Rivers says ...

Eight months after "Most Endangered River" listing, outlook is mixed for future of Wild and Scenic protections American Rivers is the only national organization standing up for healthy rivers so our ...