When free-flowing and connected to the sea, rivers transport fresh water, nutrients, and billions of native sea-run fish like salmon, shad, brook trout, and river herring (alewife and blueback herring) that are an essential link in the food chain. In recent centuries, roads and dams have blocked passage and overfishing and pollution have degraded rivers.…

Keeping iconic islands wild and open

Saving a wildlife corridor connecting inland forest to the sea

Protecting Maine’s salt marshes as sea level rises