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Now is the Time to Complete Your Safety Course!
Don't wait until hunting or trapping season to take your safety course, it will be too late! Most courses are offered in the late summer and early fall prior to the start of hunting seasons. Completing your course before hunting season allows you the time to become familiar with equipment, terrain, and hunting techniques.
Brook Trout Beat the Heat
During the hot summer months, brook trout and other fish will search for cooler spots in a river or pond, seeking “thermal refuge” from the heat. These thermal refuges will often congregate fish in high numbers, and often you can find them huddled near spring holes or tributaries.
Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area
By Regional Wildlife Biologist Brad Zitske The Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is an exceptional 1758-acre property located in the town of Kennebunk. It is composed of 650 acres of sand plain – grassland community, representing the largest contiguous unit of this type in southern Maine. The remainder of the property is upland forest with black, white, and red oak, red maple, white and red pine, and some ecologically rare pitch pine – scrub oak barren.
Grouse and Woodcock Management at Jamie’s Pond WMA
Text and photo by Leigh (Eric) Hoar, Assistant Regional Biologist/Lands Management Jamie’s Pond Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is an 800 acre upland parcel surrounding a 100 acre cold water fishery in the towns of Farmingdale, Hallowell and Manchester which the Department be
Fish Tags Help Track Non-Native Fish In St. John River
[caption id="attachment_815" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tags similar to this one were attached to hundreds of fish in the St. John River.[/caption] Anglers who fish the St.
Booming Ground WMA Is On The Edge (of Maine)
[caption id="attachment_807" align="alignright" width="329"] Mud Lake Falls is a quarter-mile of quickly dropping rapids.[/caption] The Booming Ground Wildlife Management Area is located in the northeastern part of Forest City Township, Washington County, Maine, and is composed primarily of a peninsula formed by the dammed waters
Purple Sandpipers Enjoy Warmth of Maine Winters
Can you imagine wintering in Maine just so you can enjoy a milder winter? Seems somewhat misguided, but for purple sandpipers whose summers are spent on the arctic tundra, Maine must seem balmy. [caption id="attachment_796" align="alignright" width="300"]
Delano Wildlife Management Area
Delano Wildlife Management Area by Regional Wildlife Biologist Scott McLellan The Delano Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is located about 4 miles north of the town of Monson, along the eastern side of Route 6/15. This 589-acre WMA wraps around Spectacle Pond, which is the only roadside pond vi
WHEP in Maine?
I have been asked to serve as a wildlife biologist representing state agencies for the National Committee for the Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP), a 4H-based program to inform high school students about wildlife species, habitats, and management practices. No doubt that I was nominated to this committee because
Ruffed Grouse Targeted In IFW-UMaine Research Project
[caption id="attachment_754" align="alignright" width="500"] IFW Biologist Kelsey Sullivan peers into the holding area of the trap.[/caption] IFW wildlife biologists Kelsey Sullivan and Brad Allen, in conjunction with Dr.
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