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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It may or may not surprise you to learn that we have lemmings in Maine. Our ...

It’s an encouraging sign: bog lemmings are reportedly returning to swamps in The Last Green Valley. I had heard the folklore of “leaping lemmings” in Scandinavia, those poor despondent rodents who ...

Somewhere in the north woods of Maine, under a couple of feet of snow, sleeps a small rodent curled up in its underground nest. It looks something like a vole, but it is not a vole. It has a huge ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. MONTPELIER — The adorable Southern bog lemming, delicate small whorled pogonia orchid, mysterious lake sturgeon and humble wood turtle may not seem to ...

If you’ve never seen or heard of the southern bog lemming, you’re not alone. Although this small mammal scurries through our landscape year-round, it is elusive by nature. So elusive, in fact, that ...