May 14, 2025
Eleven years of conservation efforts in this Downeast watershed have strengthened its health and long-term resilience As alewives and other sea-run fish migrate up the mouths of Maine rivers this spring, MCHT is celebrating the outsized impact these aquatic habitats have on the health and resilience of coastal ecosystems. For more than a decade, we […]
August 26, 2024
By Cathy Lookabaugh, MCHT’s Washington County Community Outreach Manager What makes a landscape? Is it the wind of a river, the wildlife that calls it home, or the sometimes-unseen connections between water, soil, and life? This August, a group of curious young explorers set out to find the answers at Watershed Camp, hosted by Maine […]
September 11, 2023
Written by Ciona Ulbrich, Bailey Bowden, and Hans Carlson For much of his life, Bailey Bowden has waded in, fished, hunted, dug clams, or boated on the Bagaduce River that runs through his hometown of Penobscot. Over that time, he has seen a lot of change: in fish and wildlife populations, in how streams flow, […]
March 13, 2023
These days at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, climate change factors into most decisions we make about how we conserve land. To ensure our work has the greatest impact, we’ve launched special initiatives to protect and restore some of our coast’s most vital and resilient habitat types, coastal rivers and tidal marshes. We’ve been involved in […]
July 16, 2021
Every spring the alewife fish swims from open ocean waters up coastal rivers to inland lakes and ponds to deposit eggs, and, every fall, juveniles race back downstream. Historically, waterways from what is now Virginia up to the Maritimes swelled with these sea-run fish, which provided food for countless wildlife species as well as humans. […]
