From a orignal coast to coast post July 05, 2018-While exploring a state forest in Massachusetts, a hiker stumbled upon a rather bizarre scene: a tree covered in Elmo dolls. Julie Silvia was hiking with a friend in the Myles Standish State Forest over the weekend when they spotted the weird tree. “Some of them were just regular Elmos,” she told radio station Fun 107, “but some of them were the Tickle-Me-Elmo kind, and quite a bit of them still had...
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Director of the Deer and Moose Project, and Dr. Robert Deblinger, Deputy Director of DFW, gave a presentation at the Lee Sportsmen’s Association, dealing with the deer herd in Massachusetts. This column will address what they had to say regarding the predation of the deer herd.
While the Massachusetts state record-weight buck was a bruising 272 pounds field dressed and an estimated 350 pounds-plus live weight, that could fall by the wayside this season as our deer are just getting bigger and bigger. The Bay State has recorded the largest number of mature bucks 3½ years old and older this decade than any other state in the Northeast.
Only one species of wildcat lives in Massachusetts as of 2011. The bobcat (Lynx rufus) lives throughout the state and exerts little impact on human society. Bobcats have short, bobbed tails, pointed ears and long fur extending from their cheeks. Upon reaching maturity, these medium-size wildcats weigh between 11 and 20 pounds and extend 30 to 48 inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.
Find waterbodies that consistently produce trophy-sized pike. This list was compiled using records from MassWildlife’s Freshwater Sportfishing Awards Program
Federal fishing managers are looking to keep the quotas for bluefish about the same next year.
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Reports drum roll please :
A pellet gun, also known as an air gun or BB gun, shoots a projectile by means of compressed air. States differ in how they regulate pellet guns. A few states and municipalities regulate them the same as all firearms; other states lump them into the “dangerous weapons” category along with other weapons such as long knives and police batons. Massachusetts does neither. The only restriction on the possession of pellet guns in Massachusetts is age-related. Minors are not allowed to...
SUDBURY – The sound of wolves howling is one of the most beautiful yet eerie noises in the natural world and, like its owner, has become synonymous with the pristine wilderness. The cry of a wild wolf is one of the surest ways to make our blood run cold, and to prove that we have wandered somewhere untouched by civilization and far out of our own comfort zone. This dramatic association has been created because such remote places are the only...