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  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 19, 2011

    OUTDOORS: Volunteers needed

    Eric Roberts, president of Central Maine Snowmobile Club, knelt on a wooden bridge Sunday and swung a hammer.

  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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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  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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.

  • Published
    November 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.