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Winter Wildlife at the Maine Wildlife ParkMaine Wildlife Park Announces Best Season to Date in 2007 The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, owned and operated by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, saw its best season ever in 2007 with over 108,000 visits and close to $590,000 in total revenue. This represents a 12.9% increase in visitation and a 31.3% increase in total revenue over 2006. Certainly good weather played a large part in our successful season, but the park’s special events, advertising and PR work, wildlife and conservation education programming for school children, and our growing popularity with both Maine residents and out- of-state tourists all contributed to the successful season. Visitors from Germany, England, Bulgaria, Australia, Hungary and Japan were recorded, as well as from several Canadian provinces and dozens of US cities and states. Special events offered each Saturday and throughout the summer generated high numbers of visitors. Some of those most noteworthy included the 3rd annual Native American ‘Honor the Animals’ Pow Wow, which drew close to 4000 visitors over 2 days; the annual Fish and Wildlife Open House with free admission, bringing close to 2000 visitors in a single day; and our very popular Halloween Night Hike, with almost 900 people coming in costume for a 3 hour night-time park visit with special Halloween exhibits, displays, contests and prizes. The Park Nature Store doubled its net revenue between 2006 and 2007, offering a variety of wildlife and nature themed merchandise that is both appealing and affordable to our visitors.
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