BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 8, 2025
Operation Reboot Outdoors takes veterans on outdoor adventures, including hunting and fishing trips cost free. Rep. Jared Golden’s office was successful in getting us $770,000 toward building our state’s first ADA-accessible hunting lodge so that we can have a wide range of vets, including the severely disabled, do overnights with us. Unfortunately, there is a group pushing, LD 1737, which would create a new term, “commercial sporting camp.” This bill has problems. Some bureaucrat from DHHS is potentially going to be judging whether caretakers live close enough, whether they got too many short-term rentals or whether their share of day visitors (food, gas, lodging customers) was too great to qualify for a lodge moose permit tag. The Legislature must resoundingly defeat this proposal. ~ Dan Waite, Turner