James Dorso Wildlife Management Area

The James Dorso Wildlife Management Area, or Ruffingham Meadow, is a 674-acre (273 ha) Wildlife Management Area in the U.S. state of Maine, located in Searsmont and Montville and formed in the 1950s by damming Bartlett Stream near Maine State Route 3 to flood an old existing basin.

In the late-1960s, a Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife technician, James Dorso, pioneered the use of nesting boxes in Maine to bolster and stabilize populations of wood ducks and other waterfowl species.[1][2]

References
  1. "AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails".
  2. "Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife - Ruffingham Meadow WMA". www.maine.gov. Archived from the original on 2014-03-28.

44.41°N 69.24°W / 44.41; -69.24

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