Biologists have banded the falcon chicks and collected data from a popular nesting site along a Portland bridge.
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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Freshwater Fishing: Fishing expected to heat up as warmer weather comes
The weather has put a damper on fishing, but based on statewide reports, that’s about to change. From the white perch runs around Sebago Lake to the trout being caught in Rangeley Lake and the mayfly hatches on Moosehead Lake, fishermen will be out in force this holiday weekend. REGION A: SOUTHERN MAINE White perch […]
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Chasing wily coyotes
Five dogs, nine hunters, 12 hours: and only a half-dozen empty tanks of gas to show for it.
This is coyote hunting in Maine, a growing activity that is considered one answer to the shrinking deer herd.
Officials at the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife are so concerned with decreasing deer numbers, and so sure some targeted coyote hunting helps, they’re compensating coyote hunters in some areas with gas money.
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Killer fungus closes in on Maine’s bats
White-nose syndrome is found in hibernation caves, threatening to make the brown bat extinct.
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Maine menagerie
After being laid off from BIW, taxidermist Dick Galgovitch turned his hobby into his job.
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Any-deer permits take a hit
The state says a big decrease in doe permits is just one step in efforts to increase the deer herd.
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Freshwater Fishing: Biologists aim to rejuvenate Shawmut Dam browns
The Shawmut Dam section of the Kennebec River was once a destination brown trout fishery until the fishery collapsed slowly over the past five years. Now biologists are working on changing that. Work is ongoing to develop a more robust strain of browns that can survive in this sketchy section of river where water levels […]
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Not just for the birds
Lewiston’s Stanton Bird Club shows off more than winged friends in Thorncrag Sanctuary.
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Skiing: Long, hard winter? Exactly as they like it
Sunday River and Sugarloaf finally close out a season remarkable for its length and the depth of snow.
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Rockland’s excellent adventure
Creators of a proposed adventure park hope to appeal to bikers, skaters, climbers and more.