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We're seeking nominations for the Wilmot (Wiggie) Robinson Legendary Maine Guide Award!

Registered Maine Guides are experienced and passionate outdoors people and each year Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife recognizes a member of the guiding community with the Wilmot (Wiggie) Robinson Legendary Guide Award [ [link removed] ].

 

Criteria for this prestigious award is as follows:


* Must meet 20 year anniversary as a Registered Maine Guide. Active guide for 10 years
* Passes a criminal background check. Law abiding citizen with no arrests for committing a crime related to: Human injury, gun laws or major hunting or fishing violations for 20 years.
* Volunteer community service. Providing education about safety and survival in the Maine woods. Introducing and educating youth about the importance of the ecosystem found in the State of Maine.
* Active on boards or committees that enhances and promotes the importance of Maine's outdoor resources, ie: youth programs, scout leader, conservation education, safety instructor, search and rescue volunteer, active in Fish and Game club(s), guide license examiner, etc.

This award will be presented to the recipient at the annual Maine Professional Guides Association banquet in the spring of 2025. 

 

If you know a deserving Registered Maine Guide, please complete and submit a nomination by _February 17, 2025._ You can download the nomination packet [ [link removed] ] or submit a nomination online [ [link removed] ]. 

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2023 Legendary Maine Guide
KevinSlater

Deputy Commission Tim Peabody (left) with Legendary Maine Guide Kevin Slater (right)

 

Kevin Slater of Newry, Maine is a Master Maine Guide and the co-owner and operator of Mahoosuc Guide Service, which offers dog sledding, canoeing, and fishing trips in Maine, New England and Canada, which he operates with Polly Mahoney, another legendary guide award winer. Mahoosuc Guide Service also provides guide training and courses in whitewater canoeing, paddle making, canoe building, dog sled construction and wilderness first responder and wilderness first aide.

 

Kevin began his guiding career in 1973 at the Boy Scouts of America Matagamon High Adventure, before he moved to Alaska and worked as a guide in Denali National Park working for Alaskan dog sled tours.  He came back to Maine where he founded Dirigo Mountain Rescue, and Dirigo Search and Rescue, which served Baxter State Park. During that time, Kevin was involved in a number of technical rescues on Katahdin, including the 1984 avalanche.

He created the Outdoor Leader Program while he was a graduate student in the College of Education at the University of Maine, and was the founding director of the Maine Bound Outdoor Program at the University of Maine in Orono, where he served as director from 1981 to 1983. Locally, he created the Junior Maine Guide Program through Newry Recreation, and taught the Junior Maine Guide Program at the Bryant Pond Conservation School.

It was noted that Kevin is eager to share his skills with others, mentoring over 60 apprentices over the last 30 years, providing them with experience that can never be learned in a classroom. He was one of the founders of the Maine Wilderness Guides Organization, and for ten years, was an examiner on the Maine Guides Oral Boards. Along with the skills he teaches, he also includes local and natural history, including that of native cultures, passing along what he has learned from the inuits and the Wabanaki.








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