Recently, at Barnes and Noble’s café in Augusta, Katelyn, my 23-year-old daughter, listened to me expounding on the 1995 wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park.

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is continually looking for ways to increase or improve hunting opportunity where, when and how it can be done without adversely impacting the resource. The agency also must protect wildlife populations where and when they are in decline. As a result, change is inevitable, and 2012 will see its fair share.