Henderson Brook News Today

By Karin R. Tilberg, president and CEO of the Forest Society of Maine Lots of us walk or recreate in the woods, many work in the woods or in the woods products sector, and nearly all use products that derive from the woods.

The project to remove a 90-foot culvert and replace it with a bridge to open spawning grounds for wild Atlantic salmon and brook trout is complete.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, in collaboration with longtime conservation partner the Appalachian Mountain Club, celebrated the removal of one of the final remaining fish passage barriers on the West Branch of the Pleasant River, allowing species like the federally endangered Atlantic salmon and brook trout to swim freely upstream to spawn once again. Maine is home to the only remaining populations of wild Atlantic salmon in the United States.