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How to Move a Live Moose
By Regional Wildlife Biologist Scott McLellan The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) is now in its 7th year of a moose telemetry study in Wildlife Management District (WMD) 8, which resides between Moosehead Lake and Quebec and e…
View Full ArticleExploring Maine’s Wildlife Management Areas
By Regional Wildlife Biologists Kendall Marden One of Maine’s most underappreciated natural resources is public land. Many folks from the western U.S. are used to having access to millions of acres of public land. On the contrary, accessing private la…
View Full ArticleWorking Together to Help the New England Cottontail
By Regional Wildlife Biologist Cory Stearns Managing and attempting to restore endangered species is a very difficult task. Most endangered species are rare due to multiple factors, such as the loss and fragmentation of habitat, the proliferation of in…
View Full ArticleJoin Judy Outside: Local Hotspots
By Commissioner Judy Camuso Working as a Wildlife Biologist in the Gray office for 7 years, I visited many properties in the Region, and got to know some of them very well. One of my responsibilities was to track winter severity for deer on MDIFW…
View Full ArticleChecking in on Maine’s Bats
By Wildlife Promotional Coordinator Lauren McPherson As we Mainers forge our way through winter, enduring extreme colds and extended darkness, we often ponder things we miss about summer. For many, it’s the longing for warmth, or the memory of a long d…
View Full ArticleMoose survival study continues with a focus on winter tick
By Wildlife Promotional Coordinator Lauren McPherson For five years, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has been conducting aerial surveys to better understand the health of Maine’s moose population. This aerial survey data is combin…
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