George Smith George A. Smith is an outdoors writer, newspaper columnist, television show host and executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, or SAM, the state's largest sportsmen's organization. He writes monthly columns for The Maine Sportsman magazine and the Northwoods Sporting Journal, a weekly opinion-page column for central Maine's two daily newspapers -- the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel -- and the monthly SAM News. He is co-host of a unique weekly television show called Wildfire, a talk show focused on conservation and environmental issues and seen on commercial and cable stations throughout the state.
Smith was part of the team that successfully defended Maine's moose hunt in 1983, and managed a winning 1992 campaign that placed the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in the Maine Constitution and protected its revenues. He also led a successful campaign in 2004 to defeat a referendum to stop Maine's bear hunt. Smith conceived of the Maine Outdoor Heritage Program, funded by an instant lottery game, that has provided more than $13 million for wildlife conservation and outdoor recreation projects in the state. Recent columns by George Smith
OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTSHENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.
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Have a burr under your saddle? Get your opinion in the newspaper with a letter to the editor. Letters must be 250 words or less, or they will be rejected. Click here to send your letter electronically. You may also send your letter via the U.S. postal service. Mail to:
Letters to the Editor, Morning Sentinel
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations.
