The 1.4-mile woods path, finished this fall, is named for the land trust’s executive director, Tom Bradbury.
Deirdre Fleming
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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Nature walk in Windham to celebrate new land trust
When their conservation groups merged in September, it assured more conservation work getting done in Greater Portland.
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Brewery bird talks draw eclectic audience
The seminars at Rising Tide Brewing draw bird and beer enthusiasts both young and old.
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MPA proposal would expand high school volleyball to 3 classes
The changes would make travel easier in a sport that is growing in southern and Down East Maine.
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Down East Maine offers a camping jewel
Cobscook Bay State Park is as good as it gets – if you like campsites with lots of privacy along a rocky shoreline with fantastic ocean views.
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Groups’ plan to buy idle Saddleback ski area spurs hope – and doubt
Ski industry experts are hopeful that a sale will save Saddleback, but some business owners in the Rangeley area say they have to know more before they can decide whether to donate to the initiative.
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Foundation of skiers, businesses reach agreement to buy troubled Saddleback resort
The terms include a critical conservation deal with the Trust For Public Land and New England Forestry Foundation.
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In Eastport, nothing overruns like whitetail deer
Hit by a wave of whitetails – ‘they are everywhere’ – this island community has proposed a special doe-only hunt and is awaiting state approval.
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Masters of invention: Maine’s history of firearm production
Guns were a tool for survival in the 19th century, and a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum documents the remarkable talents and contributions of the state’s gunsmiths.
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Volunteers aid in the effort to revitalize Atlantic salmon
The East Machias Aquatic Research Center hopes to make the fish flourish again in Downeast Maine.