(Contributed photo/Game Warden Joey Lefebvre, Maine Warden Service)

WOOLWICH — Donald Merrill said that if game wardens hadn’t found him cold, alone and unable to move on Westport Island last week, he probably would have died.

“I was wondering if I was going to be able to get out,” said Merrill. “I was surprised to see the game warden came out and find me.”

“I don’t think I would have made it through the night,” he added.

When Merrill didn’t show up at the agreed upon meeting spot hours earlier, one of his hunting partners had called the game warden and reported him missing.

Wardens tracked Merrill through the snow, and a game warden found the 58-year-old Woolwich man sitting on a log at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 19, hours after his hunting partners had reported him missing. By the…