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Fact sheets, reports, and links
The list below includes fact sheets, written reports and publications
that our staff has produced, helped partners produce, and a select list
of other publications that you may find helpful in supporting specific
habitat protection and restoration activities.
Please note that we are in the process of transitioning and updating
this list and the fact sheets listed here.
Gulf of Maine Coastal Program fact sheets
Gulf of Maine Coastal Program sheets provide overviews
of high priority office activities.
Other fact sheets, reports, and links
This category directs you to issues, initiatives or species of importance
for our work and work of our conservation
partners. Written materials are organized
into categories identified below; some of the written materials overlap
categories, and will therefore be listed in multiple categories. Some
of the written materials are short, some are longer reports, and some
are available on websites; different materials target different audiences--resource
managers, community activists, GIS specialists, or academic/technical
audiences.
Habitat protection
Habitat restoration
Habitat identification and assessment
Atlantic salmon
Other diadromous fish
Coastal wetlands
Habitat protection
- Gulf of Maine Watershed
Habitat Analysis
- Maine Atlantic Salmon
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation
Fund Overviews, 2006 and 2007
Our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff helps coordinate and manage the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, a large grant program funded from 2000 - 2006 through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In 2007, the Fund has been funded directly through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Fund supports voluntary community-based initiatives that help permanently protect Atlantic salmon watersheds, restore degraded habitat, build organizational capacity, conduct outreach, support applied research, and encourage best management practices of local industries that may impact salmon habitat. Our staff helps identify funding priorities and frequently provides technical expertise in identifying, designing and implementing high priority projects. These publications, produced in 2006 and 2007, describe and summarize our work with locally-based conservation groups, state agencies, industries and landowners to recover wild Atlantic salmon in Maine.
- Maine Coastal Nesting
Islands
- Beginning With Habitat
Beginning With Habitat is a statewide initiative
actively supported by our office, that provides
mapped information on important habitat
with town officials and local land trusts
in order to guide local efforts to conserve
Maine’s natural landscape. Beginning
with Habitat provides information on
habitat from a variety of sources, identifying:
riparian corridors rare plants and high value natural communities,
identified by Maine Natural Areas Program high value wildlife habitat
for specific species or groups of species, based on
site surveys conducted by Maine Department
of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife important
habitat for the 91 species included in
our U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf
of Maine Watershed Habitat Analysis, based on habitat modeling unfragmented
blocks of habitat, public and conservation lands, watersheds, and wetlands.
- Maine Coast Protection Initiative
The Maine Coast Protection Initiative (MCPI) was established with funds from
the Land Trust Alliance and NOAA to increase the pace and quality of
land protection by enhancing the capacity of Maine’s conservation community
to preserve the unique character of the Maine coast for the benefit
of the people of Maine and beyond. Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff
is currently active on the Executive Committee, Steering Committee,
GIS Committee, and the Communications Workgroup.
- Presumpscot River Management Plan
A comprehensive report was created over a three-year period by Land
and Water Consultants, Inc., working in coordination with a diverse
group of river of stakeholders. First envisioned and promoted by Gulf
of Maine Coastal Program staff, then funded and managed through the
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, the report provides a clear vision
and recommendations in three areas: Fisheries, Cumulative Impacts,
and Open Space.
- Maine Wetland Protection Coalition
- Diadromous Fish Habitat Protection & Restoration
in Maine (PDF 1.79 MB)
This illustrated 14-page briefing, developed
by our office, provides an overview of the habitat protection and restoration
projects our office has actively participated in accomplishing from
1998 - 2007.
- Coastal Choices videos
You can download these five inspiring conservation success stories
and listen to them as five separate six to eight minute-long videos.
All five videos are supplemented with two-page companion pieces that
direct you to additional web resources. This project, intended to
encourage people to work together to protect our coastal heritage,
was made possible largely with a funds provided by the Maine Coast
Protection Initiative, supplemented with additional dollars contributed
by our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program and other partners. Coastal Choices
was prepared by Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Cross Current Productions,
with assistance from eight partnering organizations, including U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine Coastal Program. The five
stories are:
- Wild Island: Sustaining a legacy of conservation on Monhegan
- Unchartered Waters: Saving a working waterfront in York
- Learning Ground: Linking school and community in Lubec
- Spawning Hope: Collaborating to conserve mid-coast river
- Healthy Trails: Connecting people and parks in Portland
Habitat restoration
- Maine Atlantic Salmon
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation
Fund Overviews, 2006 and 2007
Our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff helps coordinate and manage the Maine
Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, a large grant program funded from 2000 - 2006
through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In 2007, the Fund has been
funded directly through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Fund supports
voluntary community-based initiatives that help permanently protect Atlantic
salmon watersheds, restore degraded habitat, build organizational capacity, conduct
outreach, support applied research, and encourage best management practices of
local industries that may impact salmon habitat. Our staff helps identify funding
priorities and frequently provides technical expertise in identifying, designing
and implementing high priority projects. These publications, produced in 2006
and 2007, describe and summarize our work with locally-based conservation groups,
state agencies, industries and landowners to recover wild Atlantic salmon in
Maine.
- Maine Coastal Nesting
Islands
- Presumpscot
River Management Plan
A comprehensive report was created over a three-year period by Land and Water
Consultants, Inc., working in coordination with a diverse group of river of stakeholders.
First envisioned and promoted by Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff, then funded
and managed through the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, the report provides a
clear vision and recommendations in three areas: Fisheries, Cumulative Impacts,
and Open Space.
- Phragmites: Questions & Answers (PDF
276 KB)
Non-native Phrgmites is an aggressive, perennial grass that outcompetes native wetland plants and animals. This 5-page fact sheet produced by our U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program office, provides an overview of resource management issues pertaining to the expansion, management and control of non-native Phragmites in Maine.
- Diadromous Fish Habitat Protection & Restoration
in Maine (PDF 1.79 MB)
This illustrated 14-page briefing, developed by our U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Coastal Program office, provides an overview of the habitat protection
and restoration projects our office has actively participated in accomplishing
from 1998 - 2007.
- Maine
Stream Crossings: New Designs to Restore Continuity (8.5x11 format,
PDF 1.27 MB)
This fact sheet, originally designed as a folder, summarizes the proper sizing
and installation of stream crossings so that streams can function naturally and
fish and wildlife can freely migrate.To facilitate printing, an 11x17
version (PDF 1.07 MB) is also available. Two fact sheets that would normally
be inserted into the folder are also available for download: Projects
Completed in Maine (PDF 737 KB) and For
More Information/Grant Opportunities (PDF 525 KB).
Habitat identification and assessment
- Gulf of Maine Watershed Habitat
Analysis
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Atlas
- Maine Coastal Nesting Islands
- Beginning With Habitat
Beginning With Habitat is a statewide initiative actively supported by our office,
that provides mapped information on important habitat with town officials
and local land trusts in order to guide local efforts to conserve Maine’s
natural landscape. Beginning with Habitat provides information on habitat from
a variety of sources, identifying: riparian corridors rare plants and high value
natural communities, identified by Maine Natural Areas Program high value
wildlife habitat for specific species or groups of species, based on site surveys
conducted by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife important habitat
for the 91 species included in our U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine
Watershed Habitat Analysis, based on habitat modeling unfragmented blocks of
habitat, public and conservation lands, watersheds, and wetlands.
Atlantic salmon
- Maine's Wild Atlantic Salmon (PDF 112 KB)
- Salmon slideshow
- Identifying and Assessing Atlantic
Salmon habitat
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation
Fund Overviews, 2006 and 2007
Our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff helps coordinate and manage the Maine
Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, a large grant program funded from 2000 - 2006
through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In 2007, the Fund has been
funded directly through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Fund supports
voluntary community-based initiatives that help permanently protect Atlantic
salmon watersheds, restore degraded habitat, build organizational capacity, conduct
outreach, support applied research, and encourage best management practices of
local industries that may impact salmon habitat. Our staff helps identify funding
priorities and frequently provides technical expertise in identifying, designing
and implementing high priority projects. These publications, produced in 2006
and 2007, describe and summarize our work with locally-based conservation groups,
state agencies, industries and landowners to recover wild Atlantic salmon in
Maine.
- Hydraulic Geometry Relations for
Rivers in Central and Coastal Maine
This technical report describes the methodology and results of instream assessments that can help natural-resources managers conduct successful river restoration projects in coastal and central Maine. By understanding natural bounds of variation in the geomorphology of Maine’s rivers, restoration practitioners can better design future restoration projects. Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff played a lead role in initiating this applied research project and in collecting data.
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Atlas
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation
Fund
- Diadromous Fish Habitat Protection & Restoration
in Maine (PDF 1.79 MB)
This illustrated 14-page briefing, developed by our U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Coastal Program office, provides an overview of the habitat protection
and restoration projects our office has actively participated in accomplishing
from 1998 - 2007.
- Maine
Stream Crossings: New Designs to Restore Continuity (8.5x11 format,
PDF 1.27 MB)
This fact sheet, originally designed as a folder, summarizes the proper sizing
and installation of stream crossings so that streams can function naturally and
fish and wildlife can freely migrate.To facilitate printing, an 11x17
version (PDF 1.07 MB) is also available. Two fact sheets that would normally
be inserted into the folder are also available for download: Projects
Completed in Maine (PDF 737 KB) and For
More Information/Grant Opportunities (PDF 525 KB).
Other diadromous fish
- Presumpscot
River Management Plan
A comprehensive report was created over a three-year period by Land and Water
Consultants, Inc., working in coordination with a diverse group of river of stakeholders.
First envisioned and promoted by Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff, then funded
and managed through the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, the report provides a
clear vision and recommendations in three areas: Fisheries, Cumulative Impacts,
and Open Space.
- All About Maine Alewives (PDF 130 KB)
This five-page fact sheet, developed by our U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Coastal Program office, Maine Rivers, and the Maine Department of Marine Resources, describes natural history information relevant for those interested in alewife restoration in Maine’s lakes and ponds.
- Sea Lamprey White Paper (PDF 2.9 MB)
This 25-page report by a respected Maine fisheries biologist, supported with funds from the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Grant and reviewed and edited with technical support from our staff and other partners, collates natural history information on native sea lamprey in Maine. The report clearly documents the positive contributions of sea lamprey in Maine waters, distinguishing our native sea lamprey from introduced sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, thus dispelling unfounded myths about Maine’s sea lamprey.
- USFWS Connecticut
River Coordinator's website
The website summarizes important information on the distribution, life history, distribution, status and restoration efforts for native sea lamprey.
- MDOT Fish Passage Policy and Design
Guidelines
This 68-page document, developed by a multi-agency task force, establishes guidelines
to achieve safe, cost-effective fish passage at water-crossings, such as bridges
or culverts. This document was specifically developed for Maine Department of
Transportation but can be used by others, and can help fish passage advocates
ensure that appropriate procedures are followed in creating or repairing stream
crossings. Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff provided significant support
in developing and revising these guidelines.
- St. Croix Alewives
Studies (PDF 1.96 MB) and Maine Rivers St. Croix Advocacy
Maine Rivers, a non-government conservation organization, coordinated the fundraising and publication in 2007 of two research studies as part of a multi-year, multi-agency initiative to build our scientific understanding of native, anadromous alewives in the St. Croix River watershed. Gulf of Maine Coastal Program was represented on the Scientific Advisory Committee and provided federal funding through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Maine Habitat Protection Partnership. Many other federal, state, provincial agencies, non-government organizations and foundations contributed technical expertise and funding. These reports will contribute reliable science to restoration and management decision-making related to alewife restoration in this international watershed on the Maine-New Brunswick border.
The two studies included in this report are:
St. Croix River Alewife-Smallmouth Bass Interaction Study, By T.V. Willis (42 pages)
Geneteic Analyses of Freshwater and Anadromous Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) Populations from the St. Croix River, Maine/New Brunswick, by P. Bentzen and I.G. Paterson (23 pages)
- Maine's Diadromous Fish Community (PDF
980 KB)
This 11-page report by Rory Saunders, Michael A. Hachey, and Clem W. Fay describes
the important roles that co-evolved diadromous fish (including alewives,
blueback herring, American shad, rainbow smelt and sea lamprey) may play
in key life history events of Atlantic salmon northeastern U.S. rivers. This
important report makes a strong case for the importance of multi-species
management and an ecosystem approach in restoring endangered species, including
Atlantic salmon.
- American
eel: Restoring a vanishing resource
in the Gulf of Maine
This 12-page report provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction
to American eels in the Gulf of Maine -- their biology, life cycle, migratory
pathways, and threats to their well-being. The report concludes with a discussion
of habitat protection and restoration strategies and a discussion of the future
outlook for American eels.
Edited, illustrated, and designed by Ethan Nadeau as a publication of
the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, 2007. - Diadromous
Fish Habitat Protection & Restoration in Maine (PDF 1.79 MB)
This illustrated 14-page briefing, developed by our U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Coastal Program office, provides an overview of the habitat protection
and restoration projects our office has actively participated in accomplishing
from 1998 - 2007.
- Maine
Stream Crossings: New Designs to Restore Continuity (8.5x11 format,
PDF 1.27 MB)
This fact sheet, originally designed as a folder, summarizes the proper sizing
and installation of stream crossings so that streams can function naturally and
fish and wildlife can freely migrate.To facilitate printing, an 11x17
version (PDF 1.07 MB) is also available. Two fact sheets that would normally
be inserted into the folder are also available for download: Projects
Completed in Maine (PDF 737 KB) and For
More Information/Grant Opportunities (PDF 525 KB).
Coastal wetlands
- Scarborough Marsh Restoration Plan
This 66-page report identified and ranked salt marsh restoration opportunities in Maine’s largest (3,000 acre) salt marsh. This document has served as a guide in prioritizing and implementing multiple salt marsh restoration projects in Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management Area. Our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff provided significant support in developing this report and in implementing salt marsh restoration projects in Scarborough Marsh.
- Phragmites: Questions & Answers (PDF
276 KB)
Non-native Phrgmites is an aggressive, perennial grass that outcompetes native
wetland plants and animals. This 5-page fact sheet produced by our U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service Coastal Program office, provides an overview of resource
management issues pertaining to the expansion, management and control of non-native
Phragmites in Maine.
- Assessing Habitat Selection
by Foraging Egrets in Salt marshes (PDF 148 KB)
This 6-page research paper by Carol Lynn
Trocki and Peter W.C. Paton and published
by The Society of Wetland Scientists in their
technical bulletin, "Wetlands," recognizes
that pool habitat for foraging egrets appears
to be a limiting factor on salt marshes.
The report concludes that carefully designed
salt marsh restoration projects can benefit
local egret populations by increasing the
availablility of pool and open water habitat,
reducing Phragmites and modifying deep ditches
and channels to make them more accessible
to foraging waterbirds.
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