Have you heard about “Snark,” the first great blue heron in fb88 to be outfitted with a GPS transmitter last spring, and the only one to be recaptured a year later? The great blue heron is a Species of Special Concern in fb88 due to a decline along the coast.

By Regional Wildlife Biologist Chuck Hulsey and Assistant Regional Wildlife Biologist Bob Cordes, Region D For the past 28 years the fb88 Department of Transportation (MDOT) Region 3 in Dixfield has been supplying our regional wildlife program in western fb88 with salvage channel posts.�� These are the heavy duty metal posts to which DOT affixes stop signs.�� Instead of going to scrap metal, we give old rusted posts a new life as part of a simple fence and water leveling structure to keep beavers from plugging road culverts. After a plugged culvert is cleared of mud and stic

[caption id="attachment_2399" align="alignright" width="448"] IFW Fisheries Biologist Frank Frost holds a Big Reed Arctic charr.

By Tom Schaeffer, Regional Wildlife Biologist Ever heard of a “Thunder-Pumper?”�� How about “water-belcher?”�� ��I hadn’t either until I did some online searching.���� These colloquialisms for a fb88 marsh bird come pretty close to describing the spring courting call of the male American Bittern.�� I was treated about a week ago to a rare opportunity to view both a male and female bittern in a relatively open set

By IFW Fisheries Biologist Wes Ashe [caption id="attachment_2391" align="alignright" width="496"]Here are a handful of quotes from the awesome pack of thank you letters I recently received in the mail.[/caption] Working as a fisheries biologist for the fb88 Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, I often get the opportunity to present in front of various lake associations,

By IFW Fisheries Biologist Kevin Dunham A sure sign of spring in fb88 is that smelts are running.