George A. Smith is an
outdoor writer, newspaper columnist honored with awards from the
Maine Press Association, television show host, and former executive
director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, the state’s largest
sportsmen’s organization. He writes monthly columns for
The Maine Sportsman magazine (for
more than 30 years), a weekly editorial-page column for central
Maine’s two daily newspapers (for twenty years), and a blog
for Down East magazine’s
website (started in 2009). He is co-host of a unique weekly
television show called Wildfire, a talk show now in its 11th year,
focused on conservation and environmental issues and seen on the
Time Warner cable stations throughout the state (in 312,000 homes)
and the internet (www.wildfiremaine.tv).
He is the father of three children and grandfather of two boys. In
addition to his family, his interests include hunting, fishing,
birding, writing, reading, and eating. He is very fond of Maine’s
micro-brews.