KENNEBEC JOURNAL • August 30, 2020
I hadn’t been to the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray in years. This past week, desperate to get out of the house and give a visiting family member a Real Maine Experience™, I brought her and my sister to the park. And I have to say, I was extremely impressed by their coronavirus precautions. The park requiresreservations, which you can make online. The Maine Wildlife Park isn’t a zoo – the animals there are not bred or purchased. They are wild animals who can no longer live safely in the wild, usually because of injury or having been orphaned at a young age or raised illegally by humans. The park serves a dual purpose: It cares for those animals, and it educates people about the wildlife in our state. ~ Victoria Hugo-Vidal