Hunting & Bear Baiting

Maine Public Lands offer the opportunity to hunt in the backcountry.

• Use our Park Search Feature and select the hunting icon under “Search by Activities” to find the allowable hunting locations on Maine State Parks and Public Lands.
• For season information Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IF&W) site
• Harvest data for black bear, whitetail deer, moose and wild turkey.
• The Maine Office of Tourism provides information about sporting camps and guide services.
• Opportunities for People with Disabilities - an IF&W listing.
• Tree Stand Guidelines (PDF 178KB)

Bear Hunting

Information is available from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife including:

• Licenses and Permits
• Laws and Rules
• Season for Hunting and Trapping

Bear Baiting

Bear Baiting is allowed on Maine Public Lands with a permit from the Bureau of Parks and Lands.

Application

• Review all information on this page before completing the application.
• 2022 Bear Bait Application (PDF 1.4MB)
• The Bear Bait Application is a fillable form. Please complete, save to your device, then email to the appropriate regional office, or, you may print and mail a hard copy. (Regional offices are listed on the application and at the bottom of this webpage.)
• Requests for multiple sites within the same region must be on one application. (Maps are posted below.)
• If you’re applying for sites located in more than one region, please submit a separate application for each region.
• Completed applications must be received by the regional offices before 4:00pm, Thursday, June 30, 2022.
• Duplicate requests for the same sites will be resolved by lottery.
• Every effort will be made to notify applicants of site assignments by Friday, July 8, 2022.
• As per the Rules for Bear Baiting on Public Lands, sites assigned in 2022 will be eligible for renewal in 2023 and 2024.

Maps

Individual maps are posted by region in the table below, or select the linked region in the bulleted list below to view all the maps in a region as a PDF.

• Eastern Region - all Eastern Region bear bait site maps in one PDF (5.8MB)
• Western Region - all Western Region bear bait site maps in one PDF ( 6.9MB)
• Northern Region - all Northern Region bear bait site maps in one PDF (3.2MB)

Individual Bear Bait Site Maps (as PDF)
by Public Land Region

Eastern Region	Western Region	Northern Region
Amherst	Adamstown	Cyr Plantation
Bradford Lagrange	Bald Mountain	Eagle Lake
Bradley	Beaver Cove	Hamlin
Cathance	Bigelow Preserve	Hammond
Cutler	Bradstreet	New Canada
Donnell Pond - Tunk Lake	Caratunk	Oxbow Plantation
Duck Lake	Chain of Ponds	Scopan
Grand Lake Stream	Cold Stream North	Scraggly Lake
Great Pond	Cold Stream South	St John South
Keg Lake	Coplin Center	T13R5 Beaver Brook
Machias River Corridor	Crocker	Westmanland
Macwahoc	Days Academy	Winterville
Molunkus	Dead River
Nahmakanta	Dennistown
Orient	E Twp
Osborn	Freeman Twp
Reed	Highland Plt
Rocky Lake	Holeb Twp
Seboeis	Johnson Mountain
Seboeis Plt	Lincoln Plantation
Township 24	Moosehead Junction
	Moxie Gore
	Rangeley Plantation
	Richardsontown
	Riley
	Sandwich Academy Grant
	Sandy Bay
	Sandy River
	Seboomook
	Shawtown
	The Forks
	West Forks
	Wyman Twp

 

General Information:

• Public Lands Regions Map and Regional Office Contact Info (PDF 430KB)
• Rules for Bear Baiting on Public Lands (PDF 13KB)

Public Lands Regional Offices:

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Eastern Region Public Lands
106 Hogan Road, Suite 5
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: (207) 941-4412
Heidi Johnson

Western Region Public Lands
PO Box 327
129 Main Street
Farmington, ME 04938
Phone: (207) 778-8231
Crystal Wilson

Northern Region Public Lands
45 Radar Rd.
Ashland, ME 04732
Phone: (207) 768-6892
Theresa Spooner