Maine Deer Hunting Season Begins Amid Conservation Efforts – MPBN
October 30, 2011
The state has reduced any-deer permits by 46 percent in an effort to boost Maine’s beleaguered population.
As Maine’s deer hunting season gets underway, the state is taking steps to conserve the population. Maine Conservation Commissioner Chandler Woodcock says any-deer permits–in other words, permits to take a doe–have been reduced by 46 percent for the coming season.
Hunters are allowed to take one antlered deer annually, but those with any-deer permits can bag a deer with or without antlers. State deer biologist Lee Kantar says the doe harvest this year has been set fairly low.
“By decreasing any-deer permits by 46 percent for the coming season, we hope to give a boost to deer numbers across the state for future growth,” he says in a statement.
Kantar says harsh winters in 2008 and 2009 took a tool on deer populations across the state. He predicts that about 4,800 antlerless deer will be harvested this fall and about 12,000 antlered bucks. Click Link Below for Full Story!
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Why Is Maine’s Moose Lottery and Hunt Disappearing? – DownEast.Com
July 1, 2010
By George Smith
You’d have to conclude that hunters are losing interest in Maine’s moose hunt, judging by the huge decline in applicants in the state’s once-popular moose lottery.
Since lottery applications peaked in 1994 at 94,532, applications from residents have declined by 50 percent and from nonresidents by 37 percent.
In the last two years alone, applications have decreased by a stunning 23 percent.
The number of applications this year was the lowest in the twenty-eight years of the state’s modern moose hunt. A total of 49,729 hunters applied this year for moose hunting permits, including 37,012 residents and 12,717 nonresidents.
More than 60,000 resident and nonresident hunters applied for permits in the first regular moose hunting season in 1982. An initial “experimental” season held in 1980 attracted 36,636 applicants. That lottery was closed to nonresidents.
Department leaders said that the recession, high cost of the hunt, and lost interest on the part of hunters who have never won a permit are the reasons for the decline in sales.
They continue to deny that their decision in 2009 to stop printing and mailing applications to previous lottery participants, and instead to go to an online application process only, has made any difference. Clearly, it has. Click link below for full story!
Take time to enter lottery for moose hunt – Bangor Daily News
January 27, 2010
By John Holyoke
BDN Staff
Take time to enter lottery for Sometime in June, hundreds of prospective moose hunters will head to L.L. Bean in Freeport to find out if this is finally the year they get to enjoy the hunt of a lifetime.
Of course, if you want to be included on the list of lucky hunters, you’ve got to enter the state-run permit lottery. And there’s no time like the present to take care of those simple logistics.
I know, I know. You’ve got plenty of time between now and then. You’ll get around to entering the lottery eventually.
Unfortunately, I’ve heard that before. Several times, in fact. Truth be told, three close acquaintances, two of whom I’ve actually gone moose hunting with, have missed out on past lotteries because … well … they just never got around to entering.
Believe me: You don’t want that to happen to you. Think of how sad you’ll be. Or, if that doesn’t work, think of how much grief your hunting buddies will give you. (If you want proof, I’ve got a couple of hunting buddies who can provide it).
This year a total of 3,140 moose permits will be allotted to hunters. No more than 10 percent of those permits will go to non-residents. The rest are for Mainers.
This year’s two primary moose seasons will run from Sept. 27 through Oct. 2 and from Oct. 11 through Oct. 16.
Additional hunts with fewer permits outstanding will be staged from Nov. 1 through 6 in Wildlife Management Districts 2, 3, 6 and 11, and from Nov. 1-27 in WMDs 15, 16, 23 and 26. A Maine hunt for Maine residents will be staged on Oct. 30, preceding the monthlong November season, in WMDs 15, 16, 23 and 26.
The simplest way to register for the permit lottery is to go to the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Web site — www.mefishwildlife.com — and use the MOSES system.
Since the state has moved toward on-line lottery registration, and has stopped mailing out application forms to those who registered in past years, a number of people have voiced frustration with the process.
And while the DIF&W wants as many people as possible to register via the Internet, it understands that some folks just don’t have Internet access.
For those, there are a couple of options. First, the state will accept paper applications that you print off a computer and mail to them.
If that’s not an option, you can visit the DIF&W office in Augusta and fill out an application.
Finally, the DIF&W will send you an application if you send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to them at this address: Moose Permit Application Request, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, 41 State House Station, 284 State –Street, Augusta, 04333-0041.
The deadline for entry via the Internet is 11:59 p.m. on May 14. Paper applications must be postmarked by April 1 or delivered personally to the DIF&W before 5 p.m. on April 1.
For Maine residents, one chance in the lottery will cost you $7, three chances cost $12 and six chances cost $22. Non-resident fees: $15 for one chance, $25 for three, $35 for six, or $55 for 10. Non-residents are allowed to purchase multiples of 10 chances at $55 each. Maine residents may only purchase seven or fewer chances.
Resident hunters who are selected in the lottery will then be required to pay a $52 permit fee before their hunt. Non-residents pay a $484 permit fee.
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