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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PublishedMay 3, 2020
Maine team to compete in 37th Annual World Series of Birding
A team from Maine Audubon will compete for the crown without needing to leave their homes, a coronavirus-induced change for the annual event.
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PublishedMay 2, 2020
Nine of 25 Maine fairs canceled – and others may follow
Organizers of the state’s other agricultural fairs consider whether to hold the multi-day events in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
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PublishedMay 2, 2020
Electricity restored to more than 3,300 CMP customers in Kennebec County
The interruption of power Saturday afternoon apparently was caused by a raccoon that entered the Monmouth substation, the utility says.
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
The Virus Diaries: No stranger to isolation in an era of deadly disease
Doris ‘Dolly’ Roach had tuberculosis in the 1950s, and was bedridden in a sanatorium for more than four years.
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
As the weather warms, land trusts struggle with crowds
Land trusts in southern Maine are determined to keep trails open, but managing crowds during the pandemic has been a struggle.
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PublishedApril 25, 2020
The Virus Diaries: ‘The scariest health experience in my life’
A Brunswick woman suffered with a fever and had difficulty breathing for weeks after being declared presumptive-positive for COVID-19.
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PublishedApril 24, 2020
Maine moose-turd artist’s TV series debuts on May 5
Somerville’s Mary Winchenbach will appear in a 30-minute reality show running for 10 consecutive weeks on truTV.
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PublishedApril 21, 2020
Hunters will not need to tag turkeys during Maine spring hunt this year
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife also announced that the wild turkey season will start early for both youth and adult hunters.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Earth Day takes on added significance on its 50th anniversary
Environmental leaders in Maine hope that reaction to the pandemic – including a decline in carbon emissions – will lead to positive changes.
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PublishedApril 17, 2020
With traffic down in Maine, wildlife hospitals seeing decline in injured animals
But a wildlife biologist cautions that it’s difficult to draw conclusions from one month’s worth of data.
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