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Phil Hirschkorn

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AUGUSTA, Maine —

Maine’s largest group of private landowners opposes the lawsuit to lift the state’s ban on Sunday hunting. Thesuit was filed last week in Augusta District Court.

The plaintiffs argue the ban violates the new “right to food” added to the state constitution by referendum last November.

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But Tom Doak, executive director ofMaine Woodland Owners, said in an interview his members just want one day to themselves after opening their land at no cost six days a week to hunters, hikers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.

“That’s an extraordinary benefit that very few places have, and in return, the landowners have been kind of granted this idea that…