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Outdoors in Maine: Landmark legislation for dwindling deer yards
State regulations, along with cooperative management agreements with some big landowners, were supposed to have protected these critical deer-wintering areas.
By V. Paul ReynoldsOutdoors Columnist
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In a deep-winter state like Maine, deer-wintering areas, or yards, are a critical component of deer survival. In fact, according to recent legislative testimony from the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM), our deer yards have declined from 12% of the forest to just 3%. We have not done a very good job of identifying major deer-wintering areas and protecting them from the logger’s axe.
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Hunting: Legislation seeks to aid deer herd in northern Maine
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