Water restoration opportunities
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine County Soil and Conservation District will enter a three year contract with the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservatory in an effort to restore local waters.
The TNC will use funds from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program financed by the USDA.
The watershed-scale approach to restoring stream systems is a program developed to to restore aquatic organisms by opening aquatic passage in stream ways or by providing culvert upgrades.
This program will increase the opportunities to connect fish habitats to streams and strengthen road infrastructure.
“Piscataquis county is the largest forested county in the state of Maine. There’s a lot of harvesting and logging harvesting in the forestry community,” according to Sarah Robinson, executive director for the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District. “We need to be able to access certain roads and bridge work to be completed safely. That’s helping the forest economy.”
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