Almost 10 years after failing to abolish baiting and other methods, animal-welfare activists want to revisit the debate: Are these cruel or are they viable wildlife management tools?
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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Flying machines: A most uplifting hobby
Two local clubs devoted to model aircraft have attracted many enthusiasts, including commercial pilots and military veterans.
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BikeMaine will take the roads less traveled
Small towns far from the fast lane await bicyclists when the state’s first multi-day tour begins next month.
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Bird counters crazy about their loons
Volunteers, an integral part of protecting Maine’s loons, have driven the state’s loon count for 30 years.
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Sounds like sharks: White with fright, bite
Readily adaptable to cooler waters, at least a few great white sharks venture into the Gulf of Maine, but they’re after seals, not swimmers.
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Maine trailblazer expert puts his best foot ever forward
David Field put Maine’s 281 miles of the Appalachian Trail where they belong – in the woods.
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Which Maine towns have the lion’s share of big-game kills?
The top 10 answers, gleaned from the Telegram’s analysis of 12 years’ worth of tagging station data, might surprise you.
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Wreckage reminds us of what it means to serve our country
Evidence of the sacrifice of duty remains scattered on Elephant Mountain, site of a B-52 crash in 1963.
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Camden Hills: Not too remote a retreat
About 30,000 campers visit the state park annually while being comfortably close to civilization.
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Snap out of it, stripers!
A joint study hopes to rekindle the iconic species whose numbers remain low in Maine’s rivers and coastal waters.