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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 ...
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Visitors. 67,774 (in 2018) Governing body. Baxter State Park Authority. Baxter State Park is a large wilderness area permanently preserved as a state park in Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County in north-central Maine, United States. It is in the North Maine Woods region and borders the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on the east.
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.
Nov. 13—The Maine Warden Service is investigating the illegal killings of two moose in Washington and Aroostook counties. The incidents, which are unrelated, happened last week, according to the ...
Shorter winters in Maine’s woodlands have created a huge problem for the state’s iconic moose, in the form of tiny blood-sucking ticks that thrive in warmer weather and which last year killed ...
Eastern moose are the third largest subspecies of moose only behind the western moose and the Alaska moose. Males stand on average 1.7–2.0 m (5.6–6.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh up to 634 kg (1,398 lb). Females stand on average 1.7 m (5.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh on average 270–360 kg (600–790 lb). Eastern moose antlers have an ...
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. ...