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.

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.

Major Gregory Sanborn Wildlife Management Area by Regional Wildlife Biologist Cory Stearns

  Major Gregory Sanborn Wildlife Management Area (formerly known as Brownfield Bog WMA) is located in the towns of Brownfield, Fryeburg, and Denmark.

The Maine Way Cookbook

Recently, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reprinted the popular cookbook ‘The Maine Way’ – a collection of Maine Fish and Game Recipes. The cookbook was originally authored in 1978 by Judy Marsh and Carole Dyer, wives of game wardens John Marsh and Russ Dyer, and illustra

Biologists gather data from dead deer to monitor health of the deer herd

While many of us are out hunting this deer season, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife regional wildlife biologists are busy hunting for deer as well, knocking on doors and visiting meat lockers, chasing down biological data that will give the department a better glimpse of the health of Maine’s deer herd.