SUN JOURNAL • September 3, 2022
David Trahan, executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, said that “predation and habitat loss have led to the collapse of the deer population in northern, eastern and western Maine. At one time, 10 percent of the landscape was deer wintering habitat. Now it is just 3 percent.” In an effort to end this “death spiral of suitable deer habitat,” Trahan said, SAM has spearheaded three initiatives to restore deer wintering habitat. Deer yard purchases have already begun. In all the years that I had been writing about the Maine outdoors, this deer yard-protection package was the most historic deer-management initiative in my memory. ~ V. Paul Reynolds