Deirdre Fleming

Staff Writer

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.

Latest

Published
March 16, 2023

Appeal filed on lawsuit seeking end to Sunday hunting ban

The lawsuit contends that the state’s ‘right to food’ amendment paves the way for Sunday hunting.
Published
March 12, 2023

Debate over snowmobiles starts to rev up: 2-stroke or 4-stroke sleds?

While the quieter, cleaner 4-strokes have grown in popularity, many Mainers still are faithful to their lighter 2-stroke snowmobiles.
Published
March 4, 2023

Foam snowshoes offer a lightweight alternative for gliding on groomed trails

Relatively new to the market, foam snowshoes are much lighter than aluminum models – but they are not recommended for all types of terrain.
Published
February 20, 2023

Class A indoor track: Scarborough boys, Bangor girls repeat

The Scarborough boys collect their seventh consecutive championship, while the Bangor girls make it three straight.
Published
February 19, 2023

Monday’s indoor track and field championships should prove exciting

While perennial favorites may prevail in Class A, the Class B boys’ and girls’ meets could see first-time champions.
Published
February 18, 2023

High school students draw a crowd by staging ice-fishing derby

A pair of Oxford Hills students hosted a derby last weekend as a senior project. One of them hopes to grow it into one of Maine’s largest derbies.
Published
February 12, 2023

Mainer builds one of the largest networks of female hunters in the nation

Christi Holmes has grown her women’s hunting group into one of the largest in the country and one of the few offering trips, seminars and hunts.
Published
February 11, 2023

Indoor track: Scarborough girls, South Portland boys win SMAA titles

South Portland takes its second straight boys’ championship, while Scarborough earns its first since 2017.
Published
February 5, 2023

Statue to honor ‘Fly Rod’ Crosby, Maine’s pioneer outdoors woman

The fly fisher and outdoors writer drew national acclaim in the late 1800s and remains a legend in the Rangeley Lakes Region. Now more will learn of how she promoted outdoors activities in Maine.
Published
January 29, 2023

In just a few years, horse skijoring pulling in fans around Maine

The sport, in which a skier maneuvers around obstacles while being pulled by a galloping horse, is expected to draw thousands of fans to Topsham and Skowhegan in February.

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