THE NATURE CONSERVANCY • June 24, 2020
Efforts to restore fish passage on rivers in Maine have been unprecedented. On the Penobscot, more fish are reaching more parts of the watershed than likely at any time since the Civil War. In 2007, the Maine Forest Service directed the first season of road-stream crossing survey work. The Nature Conservancy took on full management responsibility of the project in 2011. We have completed the survey, documenting information about 26,328 culverts and dams in Maine. The result is one of the largest databases of its kind in the world.