Maine will issue 11 percent more moose permits for next fall’s hunt, but because a large number of does were taken last year biologists propose cutting the number of any-deer permits by 20 percent.
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Outdoors in Maine: Officials issue emergency regulations to prevent CWD in deer
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIF&W) announced on Oct. 11 the issuance of emergency rules to protect Maine’s deer and moose populations. MDIF&W advised that a captive deer in neighboring Quebec was found to be infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). In other states, especially in the West, CWD has infected elk […]
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Outdoors in Maine: 'Too much country, too short a life' for hunters
Sooner or later in our lives, most of us contemplate our own mortality. Those of us who really love the deer woods tend to use the number of deer seasons left as yardstick of our days. It is said, though, that most deer hunters go through stages, and tend to lose their ardor for the […]
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Maine takes steps to keep deadly deer disease out of state
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine wildlife regulators on Thursday enacted emergency rules to protect Maine’s moose and deer herds from a dangerous disease that has been discovered in neighboring Canada. Chronic wasting disease is an always fatal neurological disease and it has been found in Quebec, which has a long border with Maine. The disease could […]
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Daniel P. Gautreau
HANOVER — Daniel P. Gautreau, 69, of Roxbury, died Aug. 8 doing what he loved most, riding his Harley. He was born in Rumford on June 21, 1949, a son of Armand and Patricia (McHale) Gautreau. Danny was educated in Rumford schools and was a graduate of Stephens High School Class of 1967. He served […]
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Maine increasing number of deer permits available by 28 percent
AUGUSTA (AP) — The deadline to participate in the lottery for one of Maine’s growing number of deer permits is fast approaching. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. There are thousands more permits available this year in part because deer had a strong year for survival over the winter. The state’s giving out […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Despite lack of tally, deer permits on the rise
The scolding took place more than 20 years ago, when I was press officer for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “Hey, Paul, you’ve got to be kidding me! It’s March and you guys still don’t have the tally on last fall’s deer kill?” asked the New England outdoor editor of a national […]
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Watch a deer use an ice chunk to raft 2 miles downriver
ALLAGASH (AP) — A video of deer surfing an ice flow down river before nimbly jumping to safety is causing a sensation.
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Guess who's coming to dinner
Two deer appeared Friday in the yard of Wilton resident Eileen Adams, attracted to the corn she feeds her geese. Minutes later, the deer leaped the fence and ate the corn. Adams said the geese obliged the interlopers by gathering in a cluster at the other end of the pen. She said she’s seen deer […]
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80-year-old Lewiston woman goes hunting for the first time, shoots buck second day out
GREENE — Last month, Terry Labbe’s son Jeff asked if she’d like to join him deer hunting. His granddaughter had taken to the sport. There was a chance his mom might. “I said, ‘Well, I don’t know. I have never shot a gun,’” remembered Terry Labbe. “‘I’ll come over; we’ll (target) practice and I’ll see […]