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2020 Alewife Trail Map Now Available!

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China Lake Alewife Restoration Initiative

Vision: China Lake and the China Lake Outlet Stream reconnected to the Sebasticook River and the ocean, providing free passage for 950,000 returning adult alewives. Learn more

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Cobbossee “Upstream”

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”

Stream Connectivity Working Group

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

Mousam river

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

Photosimulation of the Royal River with the Bridge Street Dam removed.

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

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Alewife Restoration Initiative

3 days ago

Alewife Restoration Initiative

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! ...

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. Its remarkable how quickly these systems begin to restore themselves given the opportunity!Image attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment
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Great "Maine Calling" radio program on dam removals, fishways and culvert replacements around Maine, including the Alewife Restoration Initiative on China Lake Outlet Stream! ...

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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 new
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Alewife Restoration Initiative

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The Box Mill Dam fishway is almost complete! ...

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Box dam

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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
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New Plunge Pool Increases River Herring Survival at Maine Dam

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We are working with the dam owners to improve fish passage for river herring and American eels on a tributary of the Kennebec River in Gardiner, Maine.
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Removing barriers and returning life to a New England stream | NRCS Maine

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VASSALBORO, Maine (Dec. 10, 2020) – In the distant past the small winding stream in Central Maine would have been noticeably alive.
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How city roads trap migrating fish

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A recent US study found tyre chemicals were polluting rivers and poisoning migratory salmon.
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Watersheds

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Legislation

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River Life

30,000 miles of rivers and streams course through the glaciated landscape of Maine. Read More

Advocating for Free Flowing Rivers

Hundreds of years ago, before the first European settlers came to Maine, the region looked very different. Read more

Restoring Native Fish to Our Rivers

We work to restore native fish populations to rivers throughout Maine. Read more

Maine River Restoration Successes

We celebrate river restoration achievements across the state. Read More

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