Wildlife Watching: Trail Cameras Offer A Special Way To Enjoy Maine's Wildlife
By Wildlife Biologist Nate Webb [caption id="attachment_2605" align="alignleft" width="300"] Umaine/MDIFW Research Image[/caption] Wildlife watching is a popular pastime in Maine, and contributes nearly $800 million to the state’s economy every year.
Habitat Enhancement At Scarborough Marsh WMA Will Benefit New England Cottontails
[caption id="attachment_2448" align="alignright" width="291"] Some native plants, such as alders, willows and dogwood, can be planted using the live stake method, which is basically a branchless stick.
How To Live (And Win) With Beavers in Western Maine
By Regional Wildlife Biologist Chuck Hulsey and Assistant Regional Wildlife Biologist Bob Cordes, Region D For the past 28 years the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) Region 3 in Dixfield has been supplying our regional wildlife program in western Maine with salvage channel posts. These are the heavy duty metal posts to which DOT affixes stop signs. Instead of going to scrap metal, we give old rusted posts a new life as part of a simple fence and water leveling structure to keep beavers from plugging road culverts. After a plugged culvert is cleared of mud and stic
Spring-time Thunder-Pumpers
By Tom Schaeffer, Regional Wildlife Biologist Ever heard of a “Thunder-Pumper?” How about “water-belcher?” I hadn’t either until I did some online searching. These colloquialisms for a Maine marsh bird come pretty close to describing the spring courting call of the male American Bittern. I was treated about a week ago to a rare opportunity to view both a male and female bittern in a relatively open set
Monitoring Black Racers, The Largest Snake In Maine
[caption id="attachment_2341" align="alignright" width="1024"] Black racers are Maine's largest snakes.
GPS Collars On Lynx Provide Valuable Information As Maine's Lynx Population Grows and Expands Its Range
[caption id="attachment_2263" align="alignright" width="518"] This lynx with an attached GPS collar, was collared and released earlier this winter.
Warden Rescues Oldest Eagle Ever Documented In Maine -- Nearly 34 Years Old!
[caption id="attachment_2245" align="alignright" width="364"] Game Warden Joe McBrine handles the oldest eagle ever documented in Maine, which is nearly 34 years old.[/caption] The resurgence of the bald eagle is one of the department’s more remarkable conservation success stories. In the early 70’s, bald eagles were endangered and there were less than 30 nesting pairs in Maine.
Tracking the Canada Lynx: A Field Report from the Eustis Area
By Chuck Hulsey, Wildlife Biologist, Region D Regional wildlife biologists in the northern half of Maine are in winter number three of a project to extensively survey selected townships for Canada lynx. So far this year Assistant Regional Wildlife Biologist Bob Cordes and I have surveyed Mayfield Township, Tim Pond Township, Upper Cupsuptic Township, and Redington Township. Spring Lake Township was surveyed for us by the regional wildlife biologists from Region A, headquartered in Gray.
That’s not normal, is it?
By Henry Jones, Wildlife Biologist, Region C There has been a recent flurry of reports of wildlife, ranging from deer to squirrels to crows, with odd growths or lumps in the Downeast Region.
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