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Either way, today might be your lucky day: The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is accepting applications for the 2022 moose permit lottery. And, of course, you ...
Nov. 13—The Maine Warden Service is investigating the illegal killings of two moose in Washington and Aroostook counties. The deaths occurred last week but are unrelated, according to the Maine ...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is now accepting online applications for the moose hunt, which provides hunters with the chance to pursue the state's largest big-game animal. ...
North American hunting pre-dates the United States by thousands of years and was an important part of many pre-Columbian Native American cultures. Native Americans retain some hunting rights and are exempt from some laws as part of Indian treaties and otherwise under federal law [1] —examples include eagle feather laws and exemptions in the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
The Maine Warden Service was established fifty years later, in 1880, with an initial mandate to enforce newly enacted regulations related to the state's moose population. [3] The United States' oldest conservation law enforcement agency, over time its authority was expanded to include wildlife generally, including inland fisheries. [3] [4]
The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,125-acre (37 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge made up of several parcels of land along 50 miles (80 km) of Maine's southern coast. Created in 1966, it is named for environmentalist and author Rachel Carson , whose book Silent Spring raised public awareness of the effects of DDT on migratory ...
Dec. 14—Ronald Argraves Sr. is an avid lifelong hunter, but not until this year did the grandfather from Castle Hill accomplish a desired milestone — a Maine hunting "grand slam." Argraves ...
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 .