Unit research · Maine WMD 23

WMD 23 — Maine

4% public across 597,955 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 758 ac of public land has no public route in.

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0–1,220 ft

elevation range

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

758 ac

landlocked public

2.09

road miles per mi²

506 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Tags: check Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

No draw hunts are published for this wmd. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's regulations.

Season dates: see Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's regulations

MDIFW — Moose permit lottery (fees, chances, caps, deadline) ↗

MDIFW — Moose permit lottery (fees, chances, caps, deadline) ↗How the Maine draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, 2026, verified 2026-08-16 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a wmd that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: MDIFW — Moose permit lottery (fees, chances, caps, deadline).

Land & access

■ SFW 2%■ UNK 1%■ NGO 1%□ Private 96%

Unit area597,955 ac

Public land23,591 ac (4%)

Landlocked public758 ac (3.2%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,955 mi

Maintained trails506 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road217 ac (1% of public)

Road density2.09 mi/mi²

Managed bySFW 15k ac · UNK 5k ac · NGO 5k ac

Elevation0–1,220 ft

Median elevation290 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

0 ft1,220 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%

E 32%

S 15%

W 34%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

56 ac of this wmd has burned — 0% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at AUGUSTA STATE AIRPORT, 44 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
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Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

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