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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.

Formal high school winter sports practices delayed until January

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Team-based practices and intrasquad scrimmages for moderate and high-risk interscholastic winter sports in Maine, which were scheduled to begin on Dec.

SAD 46 board approves winter high school sports

DEXTER — Play will ultimately be decided by the Maine Principals’ Association, the state CDC and office of Gov.

Hunting season features plenty of deer in all the wrong places

By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor My deer season ended quietly on Saturday afternoon, Nov.

Maine winter sports starting dates at risk as COVID-19 numbers rise

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The recent surge in COVID-19 cases throughout the Northeast has prompted officials in several states to reconsider starting dates for their potential winter high school sports seasons.

SAD 41 board approves winter sports

Remote learning week set for early January MILO — Penquis Valley High School basketball players and cheering team members will start the 2020-21 season on Monday, Dec.

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