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Outdoors
  • Published
    March 22, 2013

    DEIRDRE FLEMING — OUTDOORS: Special emphasis on the bass run

    PORTLAND -- The guy playing the acoustic guitar early in the evening was a fisherman. And the artist singing those original Pete Kilpatrick songs later in the night was as well.

  • Published
    March 22, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Little dirt on hands helps cultivate crops, calmness

    Last week, when the weather warmed and an hour slipped through our sleep like sand through an hour glass -- too quickly, so softly, it seemed a tenderness unfolding -- I turned once again to the happily irrational acts of welcoming spring early.

  • Published
    March 20, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Snowstorms showed great timing

    We've reached the point in the 2012-13 season when we're able to assess just how good it has been, both from the standpoint of skiers and boarders and the ski area operators.

  • Published
    March 20, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Female birds rule family roost

    Have you been awakened this March by a loud con-ka-ree? The song of the male red-winged blackbirds is ringing through the air again. Male redwings have been arriving back in Maine since the first of March. Females will not appear for a month or more. The reason for this striking difference in arrival between males and females can be understood as the result of an unequal partnership.

  • Published
    March 15, 2013

    OUTDOORS: No stats to prove if you are a good outdoorsman

    Professional team sports often generate intense opinions about player skills, and myriad statistic tables about pro ballplayers can support a claim one way or the other.

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  • Published
    March 15, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Sugarloaf shows another exciting side to adventurers

    Back in the day, there were two types of skiing -- on-piste and backcountry. You were either skiing on lift-serviced trails at a resort, or you were hiking for your own turns on unpatrolled, often unmaintained slopes. In recent years a third option -- sidecountry, or "slackcountry" -- has been growing in popularity.

  • Published
    March 15, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Bringing the river back

    The fishermen who gather at the Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo in Bethel next week will come together for more than a fishing festival.

  • Published
    March 15, 2013

    OUTDOORS: Moose calling contests drawquite a crowd

    Each year the Alaska State Fair holds a moose calling contest, dubbed the "Moose Calling & Tall Tail Contest." But across the Lower 48 states, nowhere but Maine appears to hold an annual moose calling contest.

  • Published
    March 8, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: Let’s go fly-fishing in March

    Let's go fly-fishing in March before the spring run-off starts in earnest. The best early-spring action occurs before spring melt raises rivers and streams over the banks, which slows angling action until flows subside.

  • Published
    February 22, 2013

    ALLEN AFIELD: Is Belgrade Lakes’ Long Pond rebounding?

    Last January, Peter Kallin of Rome stopped at my home, and in the middle of our conversation, he said something that perked my ears up straighter than a Boston terrier's.

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