Provide hands-on training to surveyors, civil engineers, municipal and state road professionals and engineering students that results in replacement road-stream crossings that reconnect previously blocked stream segments. Project will replace 24 poorly functioning culverts identified on priority public lands and roads, restore 2 miles of riparian forest and restore access to 36 miles of stream for native brook trout and Atlantic salmon and reduce flood hazard risk in Maine municipalities.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
New England Forests and Rivers Fund
Project Title: Reconnecting Maine's Rivers Using Field Experience to Build Stream Restoration Capacity
Organization:
Maine Audubon Society
Project ID:
0405.20.068938
Description:
Award Amount:
$199987.00
Location:
Communities of Buckfield, Brownfield, Porter, Phillips, Mercer, Starks, Linconville and Garland, Maine