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When you put a Maine Loon License Plate on your vehicle, you're showing your support for Maine's special places and its wildlife.

Created by the Maine State Legislature in 1993, the loon plate directly benefits the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) and funds the management of endangered and nongame wildlife; the purchase of a loon license plate also funds important projects and programs of the Bureau of Parks & Lands, under the Maine Department of Conservation. Loon Plate funds play a crucial role in the success of MDIFW's wildlife conservation programs for endangered, threatened, rare, and nongame wildlife -- and the Department has achieved significant accomplishments: recovery and "delisting" of the bald eagle, management for least terns and piping plovers, research on Canada lynx, statewide surveys of rare birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates, and publication of books and posters about Maine's wildlife, to name a few. Loon plate funds play an important role in obtaining matching federal funds through the Endangered Species Act, the State Wildlife Grant Program, and the Landowner Incentive Program. If you already own a loon plate - thank you! If you don't, please ask for one the next time you register your vehicle at your town hall or motor vehicle office. Here's how. Initial loon plate registrations are $20; loon plate renewals are $15.00. Read more about the wildlife conservation projects of the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife at: http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/surveys_reports/research_management/pdfs/2009.pdf

Do you have your Maine Birder Band?

There's something wild lurking on your Maine tax return! Give a gift to wildlife this year -- put a check with the chickadee. Maine Endangered and Nongame Wildlife Fund.