BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 18, 2026
Town Manager Jesse Dunbar told the Tremont Select Board this week that the latest draft of the town’s deer hunting season proposal has received unofficial approval by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officials. According to Nathan Webb, wildlife division director of IFW, the present ban on deer hunting was implemented by the 85th Maine Legislature. Reference to a closed season on deer on Mount Desert Island first appeared in 1931. All other animals that can be legally hunted in Maine can also currently be hunted on MDI. Tremont’s Select Board has been refining plans to hold a special deer hunt as a way to reduce the number of deer-involved car crashes, destruction of private property through deer grazing, and instances of Lyme disease in humans.