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PublishedNovember 24, 2011
SAM a personal mission for Trahan
AUGUSTA -- For 18 years one man became the face of Maine's biggest sportsmen's organizations. And that face was ever-present in the State House. Now the face of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, if new executive director David Trahan has his way, will be of children outside ice shacks, hunting in the woods and casting at youth-only ponds.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: Volunteers needed
Eric Roberts, president of Central Maine Snowmobile Club, knelt on a wooden bridge Sunday and swung a hammer.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: Fly fishermen hear the call of bamboo
SOUTH PORTLAND -- Bamboo fly rods run upward of $1,500 and $2,000. That's not the kind of cottage industry that would make it in a poor economy. Unless you're in Maine.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
HUNTING: Theories abound on peak rut dates
Peak rut. The phrase quickens the pace of every serious deer hunter. When word goes out that "it's on," it's time to drop everything and be in the woods. If we only knew what triggers it, we might be able to plan a little ahead.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
ALLEN AFIELD: Shooting deaths can be avoided
During the 1950s when hunters routinely wore black-and-red or black-and-green plaids, hunting fatalities took upwards to 19 lives per year in Maine alone -- a terrific carnage compared to today.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
OUTDOORS: IIt’s either feast or famine when it comes to deer herd
The stories statewide the past two years about the harsh winters of 2008 and 2009 and the toll those aberrations in weather took on the deer herd are starting to play out at tagging stations.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2011
FOR THE BIRDS: This guy is having a really ‘Big Year’
Perhaps you saw the movie "The Big Year" earlier this fall. Starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, the movie is adapted from a book by Mark Obmascik of the same name. The book describes the efforts of three birders to see as many species as possible in North America in a calendar year.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2011
OUTDOORS: End-of-summer scenic tradition
Over many summers of outdoor fun in Maine, the Christie family has developed a few annual, and never-missed traditions that have survived year after year.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2011
KID TRACKS: It’s a nice peek before peak
BROWNFIELD -- The Burnt Meadow Mountain trail is a great way to take in the fall foliage. My family has hiked this trail quite a few times, but it seems for one reason or another we have never made it to the northern peak.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2011
KEN ALLEN — Amateur naturalists love late fall
November woods and fields look so drab now compared to summer, but curious eyes see plenty, beginning with deer signs such as heart-shaped tracks, buck rubs (bark “rubbed” off small trunks) and scrapes in soft earth.
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