Month: October 2018

By MDIFW Biologists Sarah Boyden and Shevenell Webb As Halloween approaches, bat decorations can be seen hanging from trees and spooky spider webs.  At this time of year, most bats are already hibernating, but there’s a lot of mystery about where bats spend the winter.  For a group of animals found throughout the state in […]

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By MDIFW Fisheries Biologist Brian Lewis Several years ago, the Sebago Lakes region purchased a portable steel picket weir with the intention of setting it up periodically on the lower Crooked River to monitor the size and duration of the annual landlocked salmon spawning migration.   These salmon migrate as far as 60 miles up the […]

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By MDIFW Wildlife Biologist Phillip deMaynadier and MDIFW’s Mark Latti If you happen to see a spring salamander, you won’t soon forget it. These chunky, salmon-pink salamanders are the largest of the streamside salamanders in Maine, reaching lengths of 6 inches or more. They live almost exclusively in the oxygen- rich, crystal clear water of […]

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By MDIFW Fisheries Biologist Merry Gallagher The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Fisheries Division Native Fish Conservation Group completed another successful and perhaps the last summer of remote pond surveys in 2018.  Since 2011, MDIFW has teamed with volunteer anglers from Trout Unlimited and Maine Audubon to systematically survey pond habitats in Maine that […]

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By MDIFW Wildlife Biologist Cory Stearns The calendar has turned to October, and hunting season has kicked into full gear. Maine’s hunters now have a plethora of hunting options to choose from, with seasons for turkey, waterfowl, ruffed grouse, woodcock, gray squirrel, snowshoe hare, and the archery season on deer now open. All of the […]

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