Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Fish Maine's state fish is the Landlocked Atlantic Salmon . Maine is considered the last stronghold for large lake dwelling and sea-run brook trout according to the Native Fish Coalition , these brook trout provide an important sports fishery throughout the state.
The complex spans more than 250 miles of Maine coastline and includes five national wildlife refuges — Petit Manan, Cross Island, Franklin Island, Seal Island, and Pond Island. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the refuge complex as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website. Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. 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.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website. Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge. Located in Coos County, New Hampshire and Oxford County, Maine, Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge is a northern treasure in the National Wildlife Refuge System.
28,751 acres (116.35 km 2) Established. 1937. Governing body. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website. Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge. Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge is one of the northernmost National Wildlife Refuges in the Atlantic Flyway, a migratory route that follows the eastern coast of North America.
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. It is situated in southern Maine, in the town of Scarborough , in Cumberland County .
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 ...
The James Dorso Wildlife Management Area, or Ruffingham Meadow, is a 674-acre (273 ha) Wildlife Management Area in the U.S. state of Maine, located in Searsmont and Montville and formed in the 1950s by damming Bartlett Stream near Maine State Route 3 to flood an old existing basin.
Rugged shoreline of Cross Island. Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in the state of Maine. It is one of the five refuges that together make up the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, along with Petit Manan, Franklin Island, Seal Island, and Pond Island . Cross Island NWR has a surface area of 1,700 ...