Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Baring Division covers 20,016 acres (81.00 km 2) and is located off U.S. Route 1, southwest of Calais, Maine. The 8,735-acre (35.35 km 2 ) Edmunds Division is between Dennysville and Whiting on U.S. Route 1 and borders the tidal waters of Cobscook Bay .
The park was developed as a dairy farm by the Carver family in 1859. At one point, the 186-acre property had a house, barn, two silos, and sixty head of cattle. After most of the buildings burned down in 1927, the descendants of Captain George A. Carver offered the land to the State of Maine as a park in 1952. [4] [5] It opened in 1963. [6]
Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge is located on part of the former Loring Air Force Base, in Aroostook County, Maine.It was established in 1998, when 4,700 acres (19 km 2) were transferred from the United States Air Force to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
While the park's forest provides a home for black bear and moose, smaller species such as foxes, squirrels, and chipmunks are more commonly seen by visitors.The forest's mix of hardwood trees and cold-tolerant softwoods typical of northern Maine includes various species of ash, maple, and birch, as well as hophornbeam, quaking aspen, American beech, and balsam fir. [7]
In Fort Point State Park: John Paul Jones State Historic Site: York: Kittery: 2 0.81 Site of the Maine Sailors' and Soldiers' Memorial by Bashka Paeff: Katahdin Iron Works: Piscataquis: T6R9 23 9.3 Site of an ironworks in operation from 1845 to 1890 Storer Garrison State Historic Site: York: Wells: 0 0 A plaque commemorating the site of the ...
Video of a moose getting a little too close for comfort with a man walking in the woods in Maine recently has gone viral for this exact reason. And the man had every reason to be spooked.
Shackford Head State Park is a public recreation area on Moose Island in the city of Eastport, Washington County, Maine. The 87-acre (35 ha) state park occupies a peninsula that separates Cobscook Bay and Broad Cove. The land is named for John Shackford, an American Revolutionary War soldier who once owned the headlands. [3]
A moose gave snowmobilers quite the scare in Jackman, Maine. The moose eventually ran off, but it left a permanent impression on the couple. According to the Bangor Daily News, Janis and Bob ...