From moose to loons, the Katahdin region offers a bevy of wildlife sightings

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 4, 2020

On the final day of July, some of my closest family members had joined me for an evening wildlife tour. Our guide, Ken Gross, met us at the center’s Twin Pines campus on the southwest shore of Millinocket Lake. There we piled into a pontoon boat and headed across the boulder-filled lake to the mouth of Big Mud Brook. As we motored over the smooth surface of the lake, Katahdin lorded over the horizon, hemmed in by neighboring mountains in Baxter State Park. The Katahdin-area wilderness put on quite the show that evening.