It’s serendipitous that New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday this year, given the Maine State Park’s newly announced push to get folks outside and recreating on the first day of the year.
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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FLY TYING: Tying it together
YARMOUTH — Evelyn King has tied flies for more than 20 years. But two decades of hackle and bucktail doesn’t guarantee the company and conversation you get in a fly tying class.
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State offers meetings on new trapping permit
Maine’s trapping program will be the subject of a series of informational meetings to be held around the state next week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
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Deering-Portland game turns 100
PORTLAND — Matt Flaherty Sr. waited for the stands to fill an hour before kickoff at the 100th annual Thanksgiving Day football game between crosstown high-school rivals Portland and Deering on Thursday, and couldn’t wait for the electricity that would come with the crowd.
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Annual football game turns 100
PORTLAND — Matt Flaherty Sr. waited for the stands to fill an hour before kickoff at the 100th annual Thanksgiving Day football game between crosstown high-school rivals Portland and Deering on Thursday, and couldn’t wait for the electricity that would come with the crowd.
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SAM a personal mission for Trahan
AUGUSTA — For 18 years one man became the face of Maine’s biggest sportsmen’s organizations. And that face was ever-present in the State House. Now the face of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, if new executive director David Trahan has his way, will be of children outside ice shacks, hunting in the woods and casting at youth-only ponds.
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OUTDOORS: Fly fishermen hear the call of bamboo
SOUTH PORTLAND — Bamboo fly rods run upward of $1,500 and $2,000. That’s not the kind of cottage industry that would make it in a poor economy. Unless you’re in Maine.
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OUTDOORS: IIt’s either feast or famine when it comes to deer herd
The stories statewide the past two years about the harsh winters of 2008 and 2009 and the toll those aberrations in weather took on the deer herd are starting to play out at tagging stations.
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Numbers show Maine pretty safe place for hunting
One fatality and two other hunting-related shooting accidents over two days during the first week of firearm season for deer raised questions about Maine’s hunter safety record.
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Stats: Maine hunter safety about average
One fatality and two other hunting-related shooting accidents over two days during the first week of firearm season for deer raised questions about Maine’s hunter safety record.