PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 21, 2020
Maine’s spring wild turkey season will open early and the required tagging of the big-game bird by hunters will be suspended this hunting season in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife announced Tuesday. Maine’s wild turkey population is estimated to be about 70,000 birds, and hunters generally harvest between 3,000 and 6,000 birds.