Sounding like you’re in rut can be an advantage.
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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At last, Maine law allowing April ice fishing has some solid benefits
Until this year’s harsh winter, the ice didn’t last long enough to take advantage of the all-year season approved in 2010.
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Hidden Valley Nature Center branching out
More missions take root at this Jefferson gem.
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Racehorses owed a happy retirement
Rockland’s Elizabeth Dickerson tends to discarded Thoroughbreds.
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All-State Girls’ Track: Records fall when Kate Hall takes run or jump
A second place in the national meet attracts attention.
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All-State Boys’ Track: Through storm and sun, Curts finds a way to improve
Self-motivation is one of the Ellsworth athlete’s strong points.
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Ranks of Trail Monsters running group growing
Neither rain nor snow nor mud nor most anything will keep them off the trails, and if you have what it takes, join them.
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Maine begins to count its hawks
Entering its seventh year, the count is an important indicator of the state’s raptor population.
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Maine bid to outlaw bear baiting will be in national spotlight
The fate of a November ballot measure to bar use of food, hounds and traps in a hunting state like Maine will be watched closely by hunters, wildlife advocates and animal-rights groups.
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Baa, baa, birthing season at Wolfe’s Neck Farm
The annual lamb watch attracts volunteers.