The firearm season opens on Oct. 22 on Youth Deer Day and runs for adult hunters from Oct. 29 to Nov. 26, except Sundays. Deer hunting on Oct. 29 is open to Maine residents only.
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As surveillance of white sharks increases, beach behavior changes
Swimmers from Popham Beach to Cape Cod are staying closer to shore as awareness grows about shark activity.
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Outdoors in Maine: Keeping Ranger Heath’s memory alive
A former Baxter State Park Supervisor saw to it over the years that a group of Baxter personnel, including Rangers active and retired, would gather every spring at the Sherman Mills cemetery to honor and remember one of their own. Columnist V. Paul Reynolds writes that it should stay that way.
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Foraging walk teaches primitive skills in an unlikely classroom
Rewild Maine is part of a movement across the country to teach bushcraft skills in urban settings.
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Outdoors in Maine: The pain of rearming an inflatable PFD
Inflatable personal floatation devices are relatively comfortable, even when worn under a fly fishing vest, writes columnist V. Paul Reynolds. But when it comes time to rearming the CO2 cartridge, get ready.
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See famous paintings by Maine masters at these state parks
The program, running through October, is a collaboration among the Portland Museum of Art, Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and Freeport retailer L.L. Bean.
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Efforts grow in Maine to encourage use of bird-safe windows
The new L.L. Bean headquarters in Freeport offers the most recent example of windows retrofitted to help prevent bird strikes.
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Face Time: Readfield outdoorsman leads the High Peaks Alliance
Brent West grew up at the end of a dirt road in New Portland, which helped put him on a path to a career in wildlife ecology.
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Outdoors in Maine: Legendary Maine Guides getting lost in the fray
According to columnist V. Paul Reynolds, it is disappointing that over the years the Legendary Maine Guide Award has not gotten the primacy and public visibility it deserves.
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Senate bill seeks to improve access to Katahdin Woods and Waters
Maine’s U.S. senators sponsor legislation that would halve the travel time from Millinocket to the national monument.