Moosehead Forest

The opportunity is now to protect more than 400,000 acres in Maine’s North Woods
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View the Conservancy’s response to LURC’s final decision on Plum Creek’s Concept Plan
Directors Letter
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Maine's Fisheries

As fishermen in the Gulf of Maine are being forced to abandon their livelihoods, the Conservancy and several other nonprofits are working with fishermen on a novel plan: to purchase fishing permits and allow fishermen to use them to develop more sustainable practices 

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From Sea to Plate

Nature plays a critical role in putting food on our tables — even our seafood.

Find out how conservationists, fishermen, chefs and consumers are working together to find new ways of keeping our seafood sustainable and our oceans healthy.

 

Research on the Penobscot Rivers

Next year, dams will start being removed from Maine’s largest river in an ambitious effort to restore sea-run fish.

But first, scientists need to find out what's swimming in the Penobscot now.
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