The No on 1 campaign manager attributed his side’s successs to support from sportsmen and conservation groups.
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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Decision on bear baiting referendum goes down to the wire
Opponents of a ban on several hunting practices have a small lead with 51% of results reported.
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Opponents claim victory in bear-baiting referendum
For the second time in a decade, voters settle the argument over traditional hunting practices.
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Wilton boy’s first deer heralds good news for Maine’s hunters
The state is teeming with deer as the season opens to residents Saturday.
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IFW: Biologists spent more than $6,600 to educate public
A biologist says Mainers For Fair Bear Hunting are taking Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife emails out of context.
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‘Troubling’ messages prompt IFW to send guard to escort official
The online messages prompted the department to withdraw from a campaign event that had been scheduled for Wednesday in Bath.
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Supporters of bear-baiting ban sue state wildlife agency over ad campaign
The group says fisheries and wildlife officials are illegally using taxpayer funds on a campaign to defeat the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.
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State wildlife agency stumps to defeat bear referendum
The department’s campaign contrasts sharply with the hands-off stance it was told to take during a similar referendum 10 years ago.
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Dresden family, including two young children, closing in on Katahdin
David and Emily Kallin said son Nathan, 9, and daughter Maddy, 8, have learned a lot from hikers they have met during their five month thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
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Bear populations grew in 2 states that OK’d limits
Oregon and Massachusetts find harvesting is harder when some hunting practices are banned.