Glowing Northwoods Guide Service

08/30/2026

We spent yesterday afternoon/evening helping our friends at Big Pine Pine Guide Service get some youth hunters out over bait. Congratulations to Trevor on his bear! Chad and Dawson, Caleb and Westin… we thoroughly enjoyed meeting all of you. Good luck with the rest of your season. Take a youth hunting they are the future and necessary to keep the lifestyle we enjoy there for future generations.

08/28/2026

Glowing Northwoods Guide Service wants to wish all of the youth bear hunters good luck today and tomorrow. We hope you all have lethal shots but if you find that your bear has left a blood trail that is difficult to follow we want to remind you Glowing Northwoods Cinder is ready to assist. She is our blood tracking dog and will help to advance your track to determine if you have a debilitating hit and a bear that can be recovered or help give you the knowledge that the animal is still going with a less than lethal hit.

She will be in the Andover area this weekend, give us a call if you need a hand. We do require blood or fur to start a track.

*call don’t message us as we may not see a message for quite sometime

Good luck and shoot straight!

08/01/2026

Happy to sponsor a guided hunt over the crew for the 2027 season. If you are looking for something fun to do today stop by the BBQ in Poland and get your tickets! Looking forward to taking the lucky winner out next year!

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸RAFFLE PRIZE ALERT🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Our raffle table for our 7th Annual ORO BBQ Raffle Fundraiser is still growing!!! Huge thanks Glowing Northwoods for donating guided 2027 bird hunt over dogs!!! Find this donation and many more at our biggest fundraiser of the year TODAY - event opens at 11!!!

$10 for a sheet of 26 tickets! This fundraiser makes our fall hunting seasons possible!!!!

We’ll see you at 840 Bakerstown Road in Poland!!!!

07/03/2026

I swear it posed! Love off season scouting we never know what we will see!

03/10/2026

Glowing Northwoods Cinder got some bird work in last week in Georgia with some close friends! Now bring on the training season

11/19/2025

We are very proud of Glowing Northwoods Cinder who got it done again today on a deer recovery. We got a call from our friend Doug at Big Pine Guide Service, LLC last night. He had wounded a deer and asked if Cinder our blood tracking dog was available. We headed over and Cinder tracked 3/4 of a mile, we were finding beds so a decision was made to give the deer more time to lay down, we marked last blood and shot a bearing to the road. We reconvened this morning and made our way back to last blood. Cinder reconnected with the track making quick work of the final quarter mile. She located the deer and Doug was able to dispatch the doe and the recovery began! Congratulations Doug and thanks for calling us! Have fun chasing the bucks this week! Thanks also to our friend Tag Bragdon who came along and held last blood as we moved forward on the track this morning !!

11/06/2025

Congratulations to one of our favorite friends KJ on this smasher! Way to get it done KJ!!!

Congratulations KJ Thibodeau!
233 lbs 6 pt, in the Mills Market BBC!

11/04/2025

Glowing Northwoods Guide Service does have a blood tracking dog. We are in the Poland ME area during the week and the Andover ME area on the weekends.

We DO REQUIRE blood to start a track. We charge a minimum $100.00 fee. We will come help if we can. We are not always available but feel free to give us a call.

10/16/2025

Danielle was teaching others how to hunt long before becoming a guide. This is her daughter Lauren. Lauren was 10 years old when she was drawn for a bull tag in zone 7.

What a hunt it was. Scouting took place all summer. Lauren had been shooting and sighted in a R***r .44 carbine for this hunt, packed with some special handloads made by a friend of the family John Wilson.

Lauren was told not to take a shot she wasn’t comfortable taking. On the opening evening of the hunt the party located a massive bull. Everyone waited for Lauren to shoot but the shot never came. When asked why. Lauren stated she could only see the moose’s head and did not feel comfortable with the shot.

No one argued that logic and all went back to camp.

The next few days were early mornings lots of calling and long days with no moose sightings. On the 4th morning in a driving rain they encountered a nice bull. This time there was no hesitation and Lauren took aim and fired. The bull weighed in at 844 lbs and had a 54 inch spread.

The moment was a very special moment shared with Lauren, Danielle, and Lauren’s grandfather (Danielle’s Father) Gary.

If you’re looking for a guide with a lot of experience teaching younger people or engaging families you’ve come to the right place. We know how because we’ve lived it!

10/14/2025

When we launched the page we said we might share some interesting stories about founder Danielle. Her last name used to be Lord (that’s not the story). In 2002 she baited her own bait sites in the Western mountains in Maine. She shot this bruin over her bait. This bear weighed in at 442 lbs dressed weight.

The skull scored 19 7/16 (5th in the state that year) and is listed in the 2002 Maine Antler and Skull Trophy Club Publication. Hard to believe that was 23 years ago!