Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Announces Online Any-Deer Permit Lottery
06 August 2018 - 5:28PM
Business Wire
Applications for 2018 any-deer (antlerless) permit lottery are
now available online from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries
and Wildlife. To apply online, visit www.maine.gov/online/nedeer.
Online applications are due by 11:59 P.M. on August 15, 2018.
It is free to apply for the any-deer permit lottery. The drawing
will be held on September 7, 2018 and results will be posted on the
Department’s website.
For this coming deer season, a total 84,745 any-deer permits are
proposed for 22 of the state’s 29 wildlife management districts
across the state, an increase of 28%. Last year, there were 66,050
permits available to hunters. Hunters who do not receive an
Any-Deer permit are only allowed to shoot an antlered deer (with
some exceptions during archery season and on youth day).
This year, make sure you also apply for a bonus permit, as there
are likely to be wildlife management districts where there are more
any-deer permits available than there are hunters who apply for
them. In these districts, hunters can get a bonus antlerless permit
for no charge if they apply and are selected. Last year, bonus
permits were awarded in WMDs 20, 21, 22, 24, and 29 which are
located in southern, central and coastal Maine.
Hunter success rates are much higher for those with an any-deer
permit. Generally, success rates for deer hunters in Maine hover
around 15% but those with an any-deer permit harvested a deer over
20% of the time.
Permit numbers are increasing in nine southern and central
wildlife management districts, are decreasing in 11 WMDs and
staying the same in nine WMDs. You can find the complete numbers at
https://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting-trapping/any-deer-permit.html#permitallocations.
The permit numbers reflect that the 2017-18 winter was more
moderate in central and southern Maine, while up north the winter
was a little more severe than years past.
The department uses the any-deer permit system to manage the
white-tailed deer population in the state. The ability to enact
change in the state’s deer populations derives from the ability to
increase, or decrease, the number of breeding female deer on the
landscape. By controlling the harvest of female deer in the 29
regional wildlife management districts throughout the state,
biologists can manage population trends.
Deer hunters in Maine harvested 27,233 deer in 2017, the highest
total in the last ten years and an increase of 15% from 2016.
Maine’s deer hunt is broken down into several seasons for firearm
hunters, muzzleloaders and bowhunters. Most deer are harvested
during the general firearms season (23,288), which started on
October 28th and continued until November 25. Bowhunters took 2,099
deer, and hunters took 970 deer during the muzzleloading season.
Maine’s junior hunters were also very successful on youth day, with
876 youth hunters taking a deer this year.
Deer hunting in Maine provides many Maine families with wild
game meat that is high in nutrition, sustainable, free range, and
organic. On average, a 150-pound field dressed deer will provide
close to 70 pounds of meat.
Deer hunting season (firearms) begins with Youth Deer Hunting
Day on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Youth may take a buck statewide
or an antlerless deer only in the wildlife management districts
where any-deer permits will be issued this fall.
This year, Maine Residents Only Day is on Saturday, October 27,
2018 and regular firearms season for deer runs October 29 through
November 24, 2018. Once again this year, a nonresident who owns 25
or more acres of land in Maine and leaves land open to hunting,
holds a valid hunting license, and is not otherwise prohibited by
law, may hunt deer on the Resident only day.
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