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Schools in most Maine counties can start winter sports team practices on Monday

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Schools in 12 of Maine’s 16 counties can begin their winter sports season on Monday with full practices while the other four will have to wait until the coronavirus becomes more contained there, the Maine Principals Association said.

New regulations will protect Moosehead Lake’s monster brookies

By Tim Obrey We will be operating under new regulations when the ice fishing season opens on Jan.

It’s time for Maine to strengthen protections for brook trout

By Bob Mallard Brook trout are one of Maine’s signature wildlife species, along with moose, loons and lobsters.

Piscataquis County Ice Arena adapting to COVID-19 restrictions

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff It was certainly a stroke of bad luck that the first indoor ice arena in Piscataquis County opened just five months before the world’s first pandemic since 1918.

Legendary Maine bucks defined by antlers

The pandemic upended Mainers’ regular activities. So they headed to the great outdoors.

By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff Before COVID-19, Brianna Roberge of Waterford had never hiked a mountain.

More Mainers went hunting and ATVing this year than before the pandemic

By John Holyoke Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor The COVID-19 pandemic may have slowed travel and hampered traditional vacation plans over the past nine months, but those who enjoy outdoor activities like hunting and ATV riding seem to have spent more time doing so than in pre-pandemic years.

2020 was a mixed bag for outdoors people

This year’s deer harvest was the highest in 18 years

By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor In true Maine fashion, it’s only appropriate to begin this column with a favorite outdoorsy question: Did you get your deer? If you’re like me, you didn’t.

Here’s everything you need to know about brook trout

By Bob Mallard No species of fish is more synonymous with Maine than brook trout.

The best fishing is with kids and grandkids

By George Smith I always loved fishing with my kids and grandkids.

How to exercise outdoors this winter in Maine

By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff It’s especially easy to become sedentary during the winter in Maine, when freezing temperatures and early sunsets encourage curling up on the couch under a warm blanket.

Deputy game wardens needed in Maine

2021 hunting and fishing licenses available

The 2021 hunting and fishing licenses are now available for purchase online or at any of the more than 800 licensing agents statewide.

SAD 4 directors OK basketball season

GUILFORD — The season will look far different with various health and safety guidelines in place for players, coaches, officials and others, but the Piscataquis Community High School and Middle School basketball teams will be able to take to the court.

Game dinners always a highpoint of the season

Maine coronavirus guidelines create tension between school and community basketball groups

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Not even the most iconic of Maine’s winter experiences — high school basketball — can escape the scourge of COVID-19.

Learning tricks of the hunting trade can take years

By Matt LaRoche I did not grow up in a hunting family, so I had to hone my hunting skills on my own and by reading books and magazines.

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