Updated on September 5, 2025

Extinctions of the Pleistocene: Ice Fishing in Maine with Jon Levitt

Updated on September 5, 2025

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Photographer Jonathan Levitt lives on an acreage near the village of Ducktrap, Maine and spends much of his time roaming the inlets and islands of Penobscot Bay. In his latest Filson Life, Jon explores the remnants of the "Ice Age" in a photo essay from an ice fishing trip for smelt with friends.

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2. porcupine eater house

3. jumping flea, jumping flea

The smell of rose leaves in spices

5.5 - He kills the bird by pressing his thumb on its heart to stop the blood-flow

6. Now it is a channel to cross by ferry boat,

7. 47 million years ago, early whales, able to live on land and in water, began their return to the sea.

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