Chief Polin News Today

As they pull thousands of pounds of metal out of the water, they are also cleaning up the Presumpscot River.

It's the first stage of a river restoration project that will allow water to flow freely through Upper Saccarappa Falls for the first time in centuries.

I walk the land in Westbrook and think about all that colonizers attempted to eliminate – and how little evidence of that is on display.

The proposed language would say that the city is located in the 'unceded territory of the Aucocisco Band of the Wabanaki' who were displaced by force.

As they pull thousands of pounds of metal out of the water, they are also cleaning up the Presumpscot River.

The sort of outdoor lesson provided by the Falmouth Land Trust on Indigenous Peoples' Day remains rare, but Wabanaki and conservation leaders hope that will change.

Looking Out for Maine’s Sea-Run Fish The alewives are here, some places— Alewives at Damariscotta Mills on May 8 (Photo: Ethan Andrews) by Ethan Andrews select A “nature-like fishway” in Saco (photo courtesy U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) At Benton Falls on the Sebasticook River, a channel leads fish from the elevator to the upstream side of the dam. (Photo: Ethan Andrews) 2 3 A notice posted in March to the Damarisc...

A new book celebrates the return of fish to the Penobscot Reviewed by Carl Little Special to The Ellsworth American You know that children’s song “Three Little Fishies” with its chorus, “And they swam swam swam right over the dam”? Were it that easy. In Peter Taylor’s “From the Mountains to the Sea: The Historic Restoration of the Penobscot River (Islandport Press, softbound, 146 pages, $24.95), dams stand in the way of fish — 12 sea-run species to be precise — and their survi...