The Maine Warden Service on Tuesday blamed poor decision making and a lack of planning by a group of hunters for their getting stuck in a New Gloucester bog Monday evening. They were later rescued. Cpl. John MacDonald, spokesman for the warden service, said in an email that wardens interviewed three men in their 20s […]
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A barbaric practice
This is in response to the column from Karen Coker and Elaine Tselikis (Oct. 6). America’s violent culture, based on death and destruction, rears its ugly head yet again with the state’s allowing of senseless, barbaric killings of “big game” bobcats — majestic, reclusive creatures of the wild. It is very concerning that Maine refers […]
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Hunter set their sights on Maine’s game birds
A 2013 survey conducted in behalf of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife by a highly reputable polling organization sheds light on who does what in Maine when it comes to recreational hunting. Details of this survey are available to anyone on DIF&W’s official website, www.mefishwildlife.com. For starters, the survey indicates that in […]
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For deer hunters, season looks mighty promising
Contrary to a recent press release issued by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheres and Wildlife, Maine’s 2014 firearms season for deer kicks off with a Maine residents only on Nov. 1, not Nov. 2. Starting the following Monday, Nov. 3, the deer season is open to all licensed big game hunters. ( If you […]
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Two Penobscot County hunters missing since Friday found alive
AUGUSTA — Two Penobscot County hunters believed missing in the Chamberlain Lake or Clayton Lake areas since Friday evening were located alive on Sunday, just shortly before 6 p.m., according to the Maine Warden Service. Cpl. John MacDonald of the warden service said Travis Hafford, 33, of East Millinocket and Ryan Stevens, 33, of Millinocket […]
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Maine hunters helping out the state’s hungry
PORTLAND (AP) — A nearly two-decade-old Maine program that allows hunters to donate wild game to the state’s soup kitchens and food pantries continues to grow in popularity. The Hunters for the Hungry program has collected more than 5,000 pounds of meat already this year after collecting about 3,800 pounds last year. The program created […]
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Shotgun slug hits Old Orchard Beach home; wardens explore charges against hunters
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Maine game wardens are investigating a gunshot that allegedly hit an Old Orchard Beach residence Wednesday morning, and say charges against two local hunters may be forthcoming. Doug Rafferty, spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, told the Bangor Daily News on Wednesday afternoon a stray shotgun slug […]