The Drake

Wild, Native Brookies

AINE IS A WILD AND RUGGED PLACE by East Coast standards, with much of the state being undeveloped, off the grid, densely forested, wet, buggy, and blanketed by snow more than half the year. It is also home to more than 700 self-sustaining native brook-trout lakes and ponds—making up the vast majority of what

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