James Dorso Wildlife Management Area

The James Dorso Wildlife Management Area, or Ruffingham Meadow, is a 674-acre (273 ha) Wildlife Management Area in the U.S. state of Maine, located in Searsmont and Montville and formed in the 1950s by damming Bartlett Stream near Route 3 to flood an old existing basin.

In the late 1960s a Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife technician, James Dorso, pioneered the use of nesting boxes in Maine to bolster and stabilize populations of wood ducks and other waterfowl species.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=XFA070-016
  2. ↑ http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/land/department/region_b/ruffinghammeadow.htm

Coordinates: 44°25′N 69°14′W / 44.41°N 69.24°W / 44.41; -69.24

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