Coyotes, deeper snow and loss of wintering areas drive the white-tail herd southward.
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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Nonstop fishing
As year-round angling spreads to more of Maine, fishermen can just keep on going.
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Keeping wolves wild
That’s the purpose of an unlicensed sanctuary in Limington that recognizes the animal’s nature.
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Hybrid or pure? Wolves’ lineage could cost owner
A pure wolf requires a permit, something the animals at a Limington sanctuary lack.
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Maine wolf sanctuaryhas heart, no permits
A woman who has kept wolves on her property for 22 years will be questioned by Maine Warden Service investigators today for operating without permits.
The warden service learned Tuesday that Brenda Foster lacked permits after The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram went to her wolf sanctuary to do a feature story.
Wolves are an endangered species in every state in the continental U.S. except Minnesota.
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Loaded with bear
A new study will show whether, as evidence indicates, the state’s black bear population has nearly doubled since the last count in 1990.
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The Dempsey Challenge: He’s really riders’ Maine man
The second annual fundraiser surpasses last year’s turnout, drawing 4,172 participants in the walk, run and cycle events, and it tops last year’s fundraising total of $1.1 million.
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Dempsey Challenge draws 4,200 and likely more funds
Actor and Maine native Patrick Dempsey stopped to greet, hug and talk to Mainers who came to cheer participants in the event he created during the 50-mile course.
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Stronghold for brookies
Maine is the king of wild brook trout waters in the Northeast, and the Roach River may be the most majestic of all. This fall, biologists in the Moosehead region are taking steps to keep it that way.
Regional biologists with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife are catching wild brook trout in the river and affixing radio transmitters to them to track where they go in Moosehead Lake, which the Roach drains into from the east. The same was done on the Socatean Stream on the west side of Moosehead Lake last year.
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Blue lobster tickles them pink
The one-in-a-million find, caught off Old Orchard Beach, is captivating the crowd at Becky’s Diner.