Moosemainea has spawned cottage industries such as moose safaris and aided inns and other tourist businesses. In a moose safari, guides take tourists out in airplanes, canoes, kayaks, pontoon boats or even floating tubes to look for moose. More sightings in the Skowhegan area cause Central Maine outdoors writer Dwayne Rioux to wonder. Other wildlife sightings include eastern chipmunks, wild turkey and woodchucks. Central Mainers share their wildlife sightings.
Winter is a great time of year to spot Maine wildlife.
A fresh snow cover always aids in tracking wildlife movement, along with providing a contrasting background to an animal's coat. Linking up with Maine lynx State officials are fighting a proposal to label the elusive cat as threatened. We've got sound clips of Maine frogs and toads, too. The spring peeper has in its call the sound of wilderness, and its nighttime sound celebrates all that's primitive. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife publishes Maine's Watchable Wildlife , that gives background and tips on how and where to watch wildlife in Maine.