While a proposed bill allowing Sunday hunting has failed, a lawsuit has been filed in the state that could pave the way.
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Search-and-rescue volunteers provide vital assistance to Maine Warden Service
Their assistance can make the difference in finding a person lost in the wilderness or aiding someone who has been badly injured.
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Outdoors in Maine: Capacity to blunder can be double-barreled
Columnist V. Paul Reynolds lumps his more-humorous mistakes together under an acronym he dubbed CTB, Capacity To Blunder.
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Outdoors in Maine: Hunting turkey is a goose bump experience
V. Paul Reynolds write about the excitement of the turkey hunt, which opens Monday and is a good starting point for young hunters.
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Lawsuit contends Maine’s right-to-food amendment allows for Sunday hunting
The suit seeks to overturn the state’s ban on Sunday hunting because of ‘the unalienable constitutional right to harvest food.’
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Maine’s most prolific birders share their tales of adventure
Yes, some have gone to great lengths to spot a rare bird. But mostly, they are simply motivated by a passion for studying birds.
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Outdoors in Maine: Timing is everything for delicious fiddleheads
V. Paul Reynolds writes that spring doesn’t truly arrive until fiddleheads are ready to be harvested.
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Crooked River has been a success story, but there are concerns about its future
The river accounts for 99 percent of the spawning habitat for wild salmon in the Sebago watershed.
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Outdoors in Maine: Preservation attempt harmful to hunting
A push by the Sierra Club to make the Delaware Water Gap a National Park could cut off tens of thousands of acres to hunting, writes V. Paul Reynolds.
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Changes are in store for Maine deer permits – including a fee for the first time
The proposed antlerless permit would cost $12, but give hunters the ability to harvest a buck and a doe.