February 15, 2025
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Moosehorn open to trapping this year

BARING – Refuge manager Bill Kolodnicki has announced that the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge will be open to fur-bearer trapping again this year.

Each of the refuge’s three trapping units will be awarded on a bid basis.

Information and trapping applications may be obtained at the Refuge Office 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, by contacting the Project Leader at 454-7161, or through the mail at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, 103 Headquarters Road, Baring 04694.

Trapping applications must be returned to the office by 4:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, when a public bid opening will be held in the refuge’s conference room.

Fur-bearer trapping has been used as a management tool at Moosehorn since 1986. One goal of the program is to manage the populations of predators of migratory birds such as the American woodcock and American black duck.

Populations of aquatic mammals such as beaver and muskrat are managed to limit damage to dikes, roads, culverts and water control structures.

Trapping is viewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a legitimate recreational and economic activity where there are harvestable surpluses of fur-bearing mammals.

The Moosehorn refuge encompasses 28,885 acres in eastern Washington County. The Baring Division lies in Baring Plantation, Calais, Charlotte and Meddybemps. Parts of the Edmunds Division, located in Edmunds Township and Pembroke, border Dennys Bay. For information on Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge visit http://www.fws.gov/northeast/moosehorn/.


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