New Dif&w Chief Says Communicating With Mainers Is A Top Priority

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories about newly appointed Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife commissioner Judy Camuso and her priorities as she charts the agency’s course into the future. AUGUSTA, Maine — As Judy Camuso begins her tenure as commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, she has a clear focus on one thing that must change over the coming years: The agency that she knew — or didn’t know — before her arrival 12 years ago must become better at defining itself to all Mainers. “When I started here in the agency — and I was in a director position at one of the larger conservation organizations in the state — I had very little idea what the department did,” Camuso said during an interview at her office.