Outdoors groups applaud the nomination of Judy Camuso, who has led the department’s Wildlife Division since 2013.
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Wells police urge caution after family of black bears raid backyard bird feeder
WELLS (WGME) — A Wells family was eating breakfast Sunday morning when another family stopped by — a family of black bears. Steve Rogers and Lori Heinze live on Alpine Drive in Wells. They were surprised to see a momma bear and her cubs checking things out in their backyard, but not too surprised to […]
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Two-headed Copperhead snake likely headed for an educational facility
WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — A wildlife and conservation research hospital says a two-headed snake recently found near the nation’s capital may be sent to an educational facility. The Wildlife Center of Virginia says the two-headed Eastern Copperhead was found in a northern Virginia neighborhood last week. It says a state herpetologist brought the snake to the hospital […]
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Maine Wildlife Park to offer look at wildlife feedings
GRAY — Maine Wildlife Park will offer an opportunity for the public to watch a wildlife eat their daily meals at scheduled times starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, on Route 26. The animals are fed a healthy natural diet that is as close to what they’d eat in the wild as possible. The […]
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Wildlife Center seeing more animals with intentional injuries
CAPE NEDDICK — By midmorning three birds and a gray squirrel have already arrived at the Center for Wildlife, carried inside in small boxes by the people who found them injured or orphaned. A young mourning dove that arrived in a makeshift carrier made from a Christmas gift box sits nestled on a towel in […]
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Maine Wildlife Park offering animals enrichment activities
GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park will host a wildlife enrichment day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 30. Enrichments are items that provide mental and physical stimulation and exercise to captive wildlife to encourage natural behaviors, activity and play. The wildlife park animals are offered enrichments several times a week, and visitors […]
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Here’s why there are so many coyotes and why they are spreading so fast
For eons, coyotes roamed what is now the western United States, with its wide-open plains. Then came European settlers, who cut down forests for farms and ranches in a steady east-west march. Along the way, they killed large predators such as pumas and wolves to protect livestock and for their own safety. The predators they […]
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Guess who's coming to dinner
Two deer appeared Friday in the yard of Wilton resident Eileen Adams, attracted to the corn she feeds her geese. Minutes later, the deer leaped the fence and ate the corn. Adams said the geese obliged the interlopers by gathering in a cluster at the other end of the pen. She said she’s seen deer […]
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Video: Maine game wardens help moose out of muddy spring
COLUMBIA (AP) — Two Maine game wardens and two hunters have come to the aid of a moose that was trapped in a muddy spring. WGME-TV reports two hunters were searching for deer antlers in a cedar swamp in Columbia last week when they discovered the moose. Authorities say the female moose was stuck up to her […]
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Maine officials finding 68 percent fewer winter ticks on moose herd
AUGUSTA — Maine wildlife biologists are encouraged by recent data showing a significant decrease in winter ticks on moose, leading to optimism that the number of hunting permits in 2018 will be similar to last year’s total. State Wildlife Division Director Judy Camuso said winter-tick checks on moose captured by biologists three weeks ago found […]