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NAWCA Grants in Maine U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine Coastal Program Habitat restoration partnerships Working with federal, state and local partners, using a voluntary, collaborative approach, and by providing biological KEY and technical expertise, we have helped bring $1.6 million in WILD ATLANTIC SALMON RIVERS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) restoration funds to Maine RIVER RESTORATION for DIADROMOUS (SEARUN) FISH in the last decade. Together, we have DAM REMOVAL or BREACH restored more than 17,000 acres FISHWAY RENOVATION or INSTALLATION of high value habitat for EROSION CONTROL or BRIDGE/CULVERT waterbirds, diadromous (searun) INSTALLATIONS fish, threatened, endangered FISH TRAP INSTALLATION, STUDIES &/or and rare species – and for MONITORING people. Conservation STREAM HABITAT IMPROVEMENT partners provided an COASTAL WETLAND RESTORATION additional $5.8 million SEABIRD RESTORATION to support these projects, leveraging GRASSLAND RESTORATION our FWS funds more BOLD TEXT = completed project than 4.6 times. NORMAL TEXT = ongoing project (planning and/or monitoring) Gulf of Maine Coastal Program has supported habitat restoration projects with two National Fish and Wildlife Foundation-funded programs – the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund and the Maine Habitat Restoration Partnership. In addition, we have successfully applied for other regionally competitive funds provided through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including the Fish Passage Program and Fish American Foundation. Occasionally, we have SOUADABSCOOK RIVER: received funds from the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, and we have provided funds Grist Mill Dam removal directly from our own Coastal Program appropriation. We have also depended on matching Upper Falls Dam removal funds from many partners, including Natural Resources Conservation Service, Maine Dept. of Brownville Dam removal Recreation Area Dam breach Alewife- Marine Resources, Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, Trout Unlimited, Maine Rivers, bass study Atlantic Salmon Federation, Friends groups, land trusts and private landowners. Penobscot River SEBASTICOOK RIVER: Milltown Dam Kenduskeag Restoration Project Sebasticook Lake fishway installation fish trap & Little River/Boyden Lake Dam Stream monitoring Sebasticook stream channel improvement Pennamaquan Dam Guilford Dam removal Gravel pit Marion Dam Pleasant Lake fishway installation Emigrating Archers Mill Dam removal ALL WILD SALMON RIVERS: smolt study Saco Great Works Dam Plymouth Pond: 2 fishway installations Falls 8 resource mgt. studies, including: White’s Pond fishway West Dam East Machias Branch Dam Large Woody Debris Benton Falls Dam Sediment transport Dam fish trap West Winterport Coopers ATV trail Columbia Falls Dam Multiple NPS & Erosion Mill Dam Dam bridge Cherryfield Ice Dam Control/Bridge & Culvert Seven-mile Stream Dam installations SOMES SOUND: Cobbossee Dam Mill Pond Sennebec Dam Somes Brook Brunswick Sherman Vinal Cove Brookside Cemetery Lake fishway Long Pond Florida Lakes Dam Weskeag Marsh Royal River Dam Bristol Mills Dam Highland Lake Dam Center Pond Dam Mill Brook Sprague River Smelt Hill Dam Pond Island Waterboro Barrens Jenny Island Flag Island Kennebunk Plains Scarborough Outer Green Island Marsh Seavey Landing Cascade Brook Wheeler Refuge Mill Brook Nonesuch River Chauncey Creek Libby River Dunstan River Invasive species control LWinter 08-MAR-2006 N:/Graphics/maps/gom accomplishments/GOMP restoration (final).ppt.
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