[caption id="attachment_1603" align="alignright" width="455"] IFW fisheries biologists electrofish a small coastal stream looking for brook trout. Students from the St. George School Summer Science Camp and members of Merrymeeting TU also helped out.[/caption] Salters, or sear run brook trout, possess a certain mystique.

By Assistant Regional Wildlife Biologist Brad Zitske Piping plovers are small, striking shorebirds typically found on sandy beaches and dunes in southern Maine. Their camouflage plumage makes them more often missed than detected but the keen-eyed observer can see them starting and stopping on the beach in their seemingly endless foraging search for invertebrates. Signs, fenced sections of beaches, and nest exclosures are good indicators of piping plover presence. Least terns are the smallest tern in Maine and are more closely related to gulls than shorebirds.

The Maine Warden Service has been using the Landowner Relations Relief kits for almost two years now. In many landowner based complaints, the district warden has almost everything in their kit to correct, or help in resolving landowner’s problems with misuse and abuse.

Road construction on Wildlife Management Areas is by nature a delicate balancing act.  A great deal of thought goes into the location and length of a road since once it has been constructed it will likely remain a gap in the landscape in perpetuity, but is necessary both for access and also for habitat work. Road construction on Wildlife Management Areas serves two purposes.  The first i

Students and teachers from several schools across the state, in conjunction with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, are capturing and radio tagging great blue herons to learn more about herons and their habitats. The student’s jobs, equipped with binoculars, minnow traps, and fish ID cards, is to locate a foraging heron in their area and then catch fish to use as bait to keep the herons comi

By Regional Wildlife Biologist Amanda DeMusz [caption id="attachment_1537" align="alignleft" width="300"] One of the smaller pools on the mainland in Compartment 1[/caption] Butler Island, located in Ashland, is a small WMA of approximately 295 acres of Aroostook River floodplain and riparian area.  The area is split into 2 compartments; the larger of the 2 compartments includes an 86 acre island referred to lo