By Mark Latti [caption id="attachment_2025" align="alignright" width="440"] Male salmon develop a kype as they prepare to spawn.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2020" align="alignright" width="475"]

By Wildlife Biologist Danielle D'Auria  Did you ever wonder where Maine’s great blue herons go in the winter?  You are about to find out!  This spring, biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) tagged five adult great blue herons with GPS transmitters as part of an ongoing effort to better understand the state’s great blue heron population.  The great blue heron tagged in Palmyra and named “Nokomis” just showed up in Haiti on October 20^th,  and anyone can watch to see if she remains there for the winter and if she returns to Palm

  [caption id="attachment_2007" align="alignright" width="550"] Plump brook trout like this one benefit from the cooler microclimate and seeping springs that one finds near the ocean downeast.[/caption] By IFW Fisheries Biologist Greg Burr Typically, in Downeast Maine a successfu