Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) has awarded Scott Hall and Richard Fennelly of PPL Maine a 2009 Environmental Award for their leadership and collaboration in making the historic restoration of the Penobscot River a reality. The award is given each year by NRCM to an individual or group who whose actions Read More
Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Species Battles Back on Penobscot
Researchers use sonar to reveal a growing population of shortnose sturgeon wintering in the river. by the Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story BANGOR — University of Maine researchers are turning to sonar as they try to estimate the burgeoning population of shortnose sturgeon spending the winter in the murky bottom of the Penobscot Read More
1st Atlantic Salmon Caught on Penobscot
Lewiston Sun Journal news story BANGOR (AP) – A Glenburn man has become the first angler to catch an Atlantic salmon on the Penobscot River since fishing for the sea-run species resumed nearly two weeks ago. Beau Peavey hooked a 12-pounder Wednesday morning while fishing below the Veazie Dam. It was the first sea-run salmon Read More
Atlantic Salmon Fishing Returns to Maine
Portland Press Herald editorial It’s not a long season, there are plenty of restrictions and fishermen can’t keep their catch. But starting this morning, anglers will once more be angling for sea-run Atlantic salmon in Maine. The month-long, experimental season is limited to a short stretch of the Penobscot, the river that has the healthiest Read More
Penobscot’s Rebirth is Cause for Rejoicing
by Dr. Paul Liebow Bangor Daily News news story Interior Secretary Gale Norton’s visit to the Veazie Salmon Club last week gives the Bush administration’s final blessing to a project that will add immensely to Bangor’s revitalization. The Penobscot River Restoration Project is a brilliant example of how the needs of society and the environment Read More
Penobscot Restoration Deal Signed
$50M needed to return salmon to “signature river” Bangor Daily News news story VEAZIE – A deal to demolish two dams and restore Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot River was sealed Friday, though the $50 million needed to fund the project is anything but certain. The Penobscot River Restoration Project, announced last October, was hailed Read More
Saving Salmon
New York Times editorial Conservationists and business interests are at loggerheads so often these days that it is heartening when they can reach an agreement that produces good outcomes for both – and for the environment. A coalition of environmental groups, an Indian tribe, government agencies and a power company recently announced an agreement that Read More
A River Reborn
Agreement could lead to dam removals and restoration of fish runs by Misty Edgecomb Bangor Daily News news story OLD TOWN – In what conservationists are calling the biggest restoration project north of the Everglades, two dams will be removed from the lower Penobscot River. Representatives of a broad coalition including the Penobscot Nation, environmental Read More
Penobscot Promise
Bangor Daily News editorial Usually when a project is described as “unprecedented” and “visionary” it isn’t either. In the case of the multifaceted plan announced yesterday to remove two dams and improve five others along the Penobscot River to open hundreds of miles of habitat for sea-run fish, the glowing adjectives are appropriate. First, the Read More
