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May 8, 2011

Deirdre Fleming: Cabela’s hopes to make moose lottery a winning event

The Maine moose lottery is known to be a party, a reunion, even a celebration. But this year’s host plans to take it to a whole new level. “It’s going to be unlike anything you’ve seen before,” said Cabela’s spokesman Greg Sirpis. The annual moose lottery is held in a different location around the state […]
Published
May 8, 2011

Calendar: Your outdoors guide to Maine

Backyard forests panel, 4:10 p.m. Tuesday in the McCormick Lecture Hall at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor. Discussion by COA faculty members and local experts. Contact John Visvader at jvisvader@coa.edu or 288-5015. Ted Ames talk, 4:10 p.m. Thursday in the McCormick Lecture Hall at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor. Ames, a researcher, fisherman […]
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May 8, 2011

Kid Tracks: Diana’s Baths perfect for dip and a snap

There is a short family-friendly hiking trail in the White Mountain National Forest that my family likes to visit whenever we are in the North Conway, N.H., area. The Moat Mountain Trail leads to Diana’s Baths, a series of small cascading waterfalls and pools at Lucy Brook. The trail to the brook is about half […]
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May 8, 2011

Allen Afield: In May, trout, salmon can’t resist dry flies

In “Trout Eyes,” the late William G. Tapply wrote an essay about his preference for using dry flies and said: “Sportsmanship, tradition, artfulness, and aesthetic values have nothing to do with (the choice).” Tapply succinctly elaborated by claiming: “Dry-fly fishing is the easiest way to catch trout.” That same realization drew me into dry-fly fishing […]
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May 8, 2011

Carey Kish: Portland Trails 20 years old and still growing

This year Portland Trails is marking two decades of building trails and connecting neighborhoods, schools and open spaces in Greater Portland for recreation and transportation. If you walk, run, bike, ski and enjoy nature in the urban environs here, then you are no doubt one of the tens of thousands of people who have enjoyed […]

Published
May 8, 2011

Rockland’s excellent adventure

Creators of a proposed adventure park hope to appeal to bikers, skaters, climbers and more.
Published
May 1, 2011

Deirdre Fleming: Despite good odds and access, turkey hunt loses allure

Maine’s wild turkey hunt is now 25 years old, and despite the fact it became an open hunt five years ago, interest has dropped off. Meanwhile, in long-established turkey-hunting states like New York and Pennsylvania, interest in the springtime pursuit of gobblers is huge. In New York there were 81,222 turkey permit holders (and likely […]
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May 1, 2011

Freshwater Fishing: New rules — and the cold — kept ice fishing going up north

Ice is not out up around Moosehead, in western Maine, and definitely not in northern Maine. But fishermen only recently got done ice fishing in Aroostook County, thanks to the new statewide law that allows for extended ice fishing and more open-water fishing opportunities in certain areas. So it’s all good. REGION A: SOUTHERN MAINE […]
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May 1, 2011

What’s Up in May: Four planets, a meteor shower and a comet’s first visit

Flowers will blossom and young, tender leaves will reappear on the trees as spring finally reaches New England this month. Just as the earth will be transforming, the sky above also promises some dramatic action. The most spectacular planetary conjunction in several years will unfold in our dawn sky throughout the month. This exquisite celestial […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Gobblers going strong

With the turkey population growing and spreading, hunters find fertile territory for the season that starts Monday, especially in the midcoast.

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