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Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Maine Sportsman
Physical Characteristics
Region E, or more commonly known as The Moosehead Lake Region, is located primarily in Piscataquis and Somerset Counties. It is the most lightly populated of all of our fish and wildlife administrative regions as it contains only 15 organized towns but 112 unorganized townships. A south to north progression within the region includes a marked transition from the rural farmland of central Maine to the spruce and fir “Big Woods” country of northern Maine. Snowfall comes early in this part of the state and it can accumulate to 4 feet or more by late winter northwest of Moosehead Lake. Excellent hunting opportunities exist in the region for deer, bear, moose, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hare and coyote.
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Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Maine Sportsman
Physical Characteristics
Region E, or more commonly known as The Moosehead Lake Region, is located primarily in Piscataquis and Somerset Counties. It is the most lightly populated of all of our fish and wildlife administrative regions as it contains only 15 organized towns but 112 unorganized townships. A south to north progression within the region includes a marked transition from the rural farmland of central Maine to the spruce and fir “Big Woods” country of northern Maine. Snowfall comes early in this part of the state and it can accumulate to 4 feet or more by late winter northwest of Moosehead Lake. Excellent hunting opportunities exist in the region for deer, bear, moose, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hare and coyote.
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Posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 by Maine Sportsman
Physical Characteristics
Region E, or more commonly known as The Moosehead Lake Region, is located primarily in Piscataquis and Somerset Counties. It is the most lightly populated of all of our fish and wildlife administrative regions as it contains only 15 organized towns but 112 unorganized townships. A south to north progression within the region includes a marked transition from the rural farmland of central Maine to the spruce and fir “Big Woods” country of northern Maine. Snowfall comes early in this part of the state and it can accumulate to 4 feet or more by late winter northwest of Moosehead Lake. Excellent hunting opportunities exist in the region for deer, bear, moose, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hare and coyote.
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Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 by Maine Sportsman
We have kind of an odd situation here, where “threatened” lynx today are front page news, yet when they were scarce some 30 years ago, most people probably weren’t even aware of their existence in Maine.
I worked in the northernmost IF&W Region for 8 yrs in the 70s. I was in the woods very frequently, and saw the tracks of lynx only 3 or 4 times. I have worked in the Greenville Region for nearly 27 years now, and seen the tracks hundreds of time, mostly within the last 10 years. This suggests to me a marked increase in lynx over my career, which I attribute to the change in the make-up of the woods from acres & acres of merchantable or harvestable trees to acres and acres of rabbit cover, or regenerating clearcuts. In effect, lynx are now categorized as “Threatened,” even though they are more abundant now and receive much more attention and special consideration than when their numbers were low, which is sort of a contradiction.
One day last winter I traveled from Greenville to Rip Dam to Chamberlain Bridge to Cuxabexis Lake to Caucomgomoc Dam to Scott Brook and back to Greenville via Raggmuff, encountering lynx tracks approximately 30 times. Last year, for the first time, I was shown some lynx tracks within a mile of downtown Greenville. And last winter, I ran onto lynx tracks In Bald Mtn. Twp, west of Monson on two different occasions.
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Posted on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 by Maine Sportsman
Last year about this time (actually a little prior to now), I was tasked with figuring out how many deer from WMD 14 would have to be examined to determine the “yearling frequency.” We examine the teeth up close to determine age.
Somehow, I knew the importance of that statistic from something I had read in the past; some biologist studying population dynamics had determined yearling frequency equals removal rate,. With removal rate, the population can be estimated. I took that assignment home, because statistical inference is a topic I’m not too conversant in. I was going to have to study this issue in a quiet atmosphere.
I skimmed thru an old text on statistics for the section that applied. I didn’t find it right away. Then I had a thought; couldn’t this situation be replicated using a table of random numbers such as odd = yearling, even = not yearling? Odd and even numbers presumably have an equal probability of being selected. And in some population ~50% of adults are yearlings. I worked with subsamples of 10, accumulating the result and studying the overall outcome. I determined this way that narrowly determining the percentage of yearlings in a population of unknown size was improbable without examining approximately 170 individuals drawn from that population. Regarding WMD 14, we could never expect to see that many shot by hunters, so the whole idea of trying was improbable. It wasn’t worth attempting.
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