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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PublishedMarch 20, 2022
Woman embraces another winter in a primitive cabin in the Maine woods
Once again this winter, Wendy Weiger is living alone in a remote, one-room cabin in the woods, learning to navigate at night by the stars.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2022
Skiing is made affordable for more kids in western Maine
Several nonprofits and organizations, along with Mt. Abram ski area, are helping to make Nordic and Alpine skiing free or low-cost for area children.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
A dog’s purpose – foraging for and repurposing antlers shed by moose
An Australian shepherd has turned a couple’s love of foraging in the woods for moose antlers into a thriving dog-chew company.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Shopping for snowshoes? Technological advances create a variety of options
From the 60-inch traditional wooden style to the 20-inch racing models, snowshoes have changed dramatically over the decades.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Class A indoor track: Lewiston boys place second, Scarborough captures sixth straight state title
Bangor successfully defends its girls state championship. Abdirizak Abukar, Jabreel Muhammad-Aceto and Amelia Wedderburn claim individual state titles for Lewiston.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Casco couple teaches young son to ski despite physical challenges
Kara and Chad Kilmartin want their children to live an outdoor lifestyle and have helped 5-year-old son Cooper, who has spina bifida, learn to enjoy the slopes.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
Belfast’s most enthusiastic rowers embrace the cold
The community rowing program, Come Boating, launches six-oar Cornish pilot gigs year-round.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2022
Sports Digest: Kate Hall-Harnden to compete for first time since knee injury
The Casco native is entered in the long jump at an indoor track meet in New York on Sunday, a year after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
What’s in a name? Ask the skiers at Shawnee Peak
The Bridgton ski area was called Pleasant Mountain for 50 years before being renamed after a ski resort in Pennsylvania. Some skiers hope it will revert to its original name under new ownership.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2022
Team of biologists makes daring rescue of loons trapped in iced-in waters
A new recovery effort is helping to bolster Maine’s loon population.
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