For the Kennebec River, Bald Mountain and South Portland, three people are making a real difference. By Lisa Pohlmann Portland Press Herald op-ed AUGUSTA — This winter, I took my 8-year-old grandson out for an afternoon adventure in the snow-covered woods. We followed deer tracks, talked about the wood duck boxes in the marsh and Read More
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NRCM Awards
The Natural Resources Council of Maine has received many honors and awards for our work protecting the nature of Maine. We thank all of the groups who have named NRCM as a recipient of their award and share our commitment to keeping Maine’s environment clean and healthy. 2022 – NRCM received ecomaine’s eco-Excellence Award for Read More
Success Stories
Maine Closes the Out-of-state Waste Loophole April 18, 2022In 2022, NRCM worked with our allies from Community Action Works, the Maine Environmental Priorities Coalition, and Don’t Waste ME, an alliance of impacted community residents and tribal citizens to pass LD 1639 and close a loophole that allowed toxic out-of-state waste to be disposed of in Read More
Timeline of NRCM’s History
From establishment of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the cause upon which we were founded in 1959, to passage of the nation’s most protective metal mining rules, NRCM has been at the forefront of major victories that have helped keep Maine a special place to live, work, and play. View a visual timeline of NRCM’s first Read More
History of NRCM
For more than 60 years, NRCM has been protecting the nature of Maine. Photo of Moosehead Lake by Jerry and Marcy Monkman. The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) has a long legacy of environmental leadership in Maine. NRCM was founded in 1959 as a small, volunteer-based environmental advocacy group, made up of organizations from Read More
About NRCM
Mission: The Natural Resources Council of Maine is the state’s leading nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to protecting, restoring, and conserving Maine’s environment, now and for future generations. Since 1959, NRCM has harnessed the power of the law, science, and the voices of nearly 20,000 supporters statewide and beyond to protect the places and way Read More
Reclaiming Rivers
By Henry Heyburn Jr., former NRCM board member In July of 1999, I attended the breaching of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. There were hundreds of others in attendance including Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, The Survival of the Birch Read More
The River Wild
One of the most ambitious river restorations ever undertaken in the United States is happening on the Penobscot River. By Virginia M. Wright Down East magazine The reporters call John Banks from far-flung places like India, China, and Japan. They want to know how Maine is freeing a river from dams that have devastated eleven Read More
Restoring Alewives in Maine Rivers
Throughout our history, NRCM has worked to support healthy fish populations returning to Maine’s rivers, and we’ve had big victories. With removal of the Edwards Dam in 1999 and the Fort Halifax Dam in 2008, millions of alewives (river herring) now return to the Kennebec River each spring. Here is a video during the 2024 alewife harvest at Benton Falls, Read More
