Cobbossee Stream Powered Gardiner's past... Now let's give the stream a future. Cobbossee Stream continues to flow, gurgle and pulse through the remnants of its 200 year old economic history … Read more about Cobbossee “Upstream”
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Stream Connectivity Working Group
The SCWG is a forum, networking and coordinating group that informs, leverages, and enhances the work of on-the-ground restoration practitioners and planners in Maine. We achieve this through … Read more about Stream Connectivity Working Group
Advocating for the Mousam River
Undamming the Mousam River The Mousam River watershed contains 349 miles of river and streams and drains a total area of about 117 square miles. It covers portions of the towns of Acton, Shapleigh, … Read more about Advocating for the Mousam River
Royal River Restoration
Photosimulation of the Royal River with the Bridge Street Dam removed. The Royal River flows nearly 26 miles from its source in Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester to its mouth in Casco Bay in … Read more about Royal River Restoration
Alewife Restoration Initiative on Facebook
Three years after dam removal, here are some pictures from the former impoundment at Masse Dam on China Lake Outlet Stream in Vassalboro, Maine. In the next few years, we will complete removals or fish passage at the final two of six dams that once blocked fish passage for a run of close to a million returning alewives a year. It's remarkable how quickly these systems begin to restore themselves given the opportunity!
Great "Maine Calling" radio program on dam removals, fishways and culvert replacements around Maine, including the Alewife Restoration Initiative on China Lake Outlet Stream!
Fish Passage: Populations of Sea-Run Fish Gain Access to Maine Waters Through Conservation Work
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The removal of the Edwards Dam from the Kennebec River — and the Great Works and Veazie Dams from the Penobscot — made national news and ushered in a newThe Box Mill Dam fishway is almost complete!
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The Box Mill Dam fishway on Outlet Stream in Vassalboro is basically complete and ready to pass alewives upstream when they return in 2021
