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About Antlerless Deer Permits After the lottery drawing, successful applicants must claim and purchase the permit for $12 (plus $2 agent fee).

Backwoods planting is about taking food to the deer - not the other way around. But for food plots, like all real estate, location matters. ?Just because your plot is in the woods doesn't mean it is in a high traffic area. It has to be located in areas where there is good deer signs,? Fiduccia says.

The unwritten rule - Always ask permission. Hunting, fishing, or otherwise using private land without the owner's permission is a careless move that puts everyone's future access at risk. When venturing into the Maine woods, follow the unwritten rule.

Baiting deer by placing salt, grain, fruit, nuts or other foods or bait known to be attractive to deer or hunting from an observation stand or blind overlooking such bait, is prohibited from June 1 to December 15. This does not apply to hunting from an observation stand or blind overlooking: Standing crops.

Due to their size and amount of food produced, food plots spread deer out over a much larger area than bait sites, and thus they mimic natural forage in woods and fields.

Hunting deer over bait in Maine is prohibited with exceptions allowing deer to be targeted over bait in matters of nuisance deer control and special controlled hunts; this prohibition includes salt blocks but does not include standing crops or foods left over from agricultural practices (12 M.R.S. §11452).

Red squirrels can be hunted year round. You can eat both gray and red squirrels, though Vose said the latter are less worthwhile in terms of the amount of meat you get. ?Grays and reds are the only ones that are technically harvestable in the state of Maine,? Vose said.

"Nuisance dog" means a dog or wolf hybrid that causes bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, to an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury; a dog or wolf hybrid that causes a reasonable and prudent person who ...

Landowner Privilege: Maine resident landowners and their immediate family members may hunt without a license using firearms, archery, crossbow or muzzleloader on land they own and reside upon, provided the land exceeds 10 acres in size and is used exclusively for agricultural purposes.