Document Type
Other
Publication Title
Connecting Rivers Fact Sheet Series
Publisher
Maine Sea Grant College Program
Publication Date
2017
Publisher location
Orono, Maine
Abstract/ Summary
Across Maine, communities and land owners are reconnecting rivers and streams by improving road crossings, fixing broken culverts, and removing dams and other barriers. There are many reasons for doing this work, including preventing costly repairs associated with flooding and washouts, enhancing water quality, increasing wildlife habitat, and restoring fish populations. Connecting Rivers explores some of the ways that streams connect inland lakes and forests and the sea. This second fact sheet in the series provides an overview of the motivations for and benefits of restoring fish passage, and includes a map of dam removals and other restoration actions in the Penobscot watershed since 1990.
Repository Citation
Schmitt, Catherine, "Connecting rivers in the Penobscot Watershed" (2017). Maine Sea Grant Publications. 129.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/seagrant_pub/129
Version
publisher's version of the published document
Creative Commons License
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