More than 270,000 visitors have camped at state parks so far this year, despite a season that started two to four weeks late.
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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Sales of rustic camps in northern Maine surge during pandemic
Sales have jumped by nearly 30 percent over the past year, as buyers look for remote locations to get away from crowds.
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Volleyball teams shift to outdoors, while eyeing a real season
With indoor games and practices not allowed at high schools this fall, volleyball teams are heading outside to prepare for a possible season in early 2021.
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Audubon survey aims to point out Portland’s clear and present danger to birds
A team is searching near glass-covered buildings in the Old Port every morning during the fall migration to determine their toll on songbirds.
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Petition to end bear baiting in Maine is rejected
An effort to phase out the use of bait when hunting bears was voted down by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory Council.
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Coast Guard officer raises $17,500 by running nonstop across Maine
Katie Spotz, 33, ran 137 miles in under 34 hours from Quebec to Freeport while raising money for a nonprofit that provides clean water to third-world communities.
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Cobscook Shores features 13 miles of Downeast coastline
Visitors to the new parkland along the Downeast coast revel in the scenery before the park’s official opening next spring.
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Owner rebuffs call to change name of ski area near Greenville
The resort near Moosehead Lake contains a derogatory term for Native American women.
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The Saco River’s good Samaritans
A group of four friends, three of them certified scuba divers, have made it their mission this summer to haul trash out of the Saco River.
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Maine to partner with Massachusetts in study of great white sharks
Biologists with the Maine Department of Marine Resources will put 20 acoustic receivers in near-shore waters in the Gulf of Maine to capture data from great whites that have been tagged by Massachusetts scientists.