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Maine Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state owned lands managed by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.The WMAs comprise approximately 100,000 acres and contain a diverse array of habitats, from wetland flowages critical to waterfowl production to the spruce-fir forests of northern Maine on which Canada Lynx, moose and wintering deer are dependent.
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Bureau of Resource Management, provides management and research resources for Maine's freshwater fisheries and wildlife. [3] Bureau of Warden Service, enforces and conducts investigations relating to fisheries, wildlife, and off-road recreation laws. [4]
Maine's game wardens strive to protect the state's fishing and hunting resources, Enforcing strict limits on the activities listed above to keep animal populations stable. Maine's Warden Service is operationally part of Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, it is the oldest conservation law enforcement agency in the United States.
Scarborough Marsh is a 3,200-acre saltwater marsh owned by the state of Maine and managed by the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a wildlife management area. [1] It is situated in southern Maine, in the town of Scarborough , in Cumberland County .
Gene Letourneau (Frye Mountain) Wildlife Management Area is a 5241-acre (2120.96 ha) Maine Wildlife Management Area (WMA) operated and managed by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) located in the towns of Montville, Knox and part of Morrill in Waldo County, ME about 12 miles west of Belfast. [1]
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife annually stocks the lake with brown trout [2] to provide winter anglers with cold-water gamefish during the ice-fishing season. Because of low oxygen levels at the lake's deepest points and high temperatures in shallow water, it is unlikely that any trout hold over into the summer months.
With the help of fish delivered to Eastern Egg Rock, [5] 69 percent of Maine's roseate terns were nesting there by 2004. [6] Now the island is the southern limit of puffin habitat in North America. [4] To protect the birds, the island is closed to visitors for the breeding season, which runs from April through August. [3]
Location: Piscataquis County, Maine: Coordinates: 1]: Primary outflows: Lobster Stream: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 4.7 mi (7.6 km) [2]: Max. width: 1.5 mi (2.4 km) [2]: Surface area: 3,380 acres (1,370 ha) [3]: Max. depth: 106 feet (32 m) [4]: Water volume: 88,897 acre⋅ft (109,653,000 m 3) [3]: Surface elevation: 965 ft (294 m) [1]: Lobster Lake in the North Maine Woods was ...