Past Projects
Since its launch in 2008, the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program (MNRCP) has awarded over $30 million in competitive grants to non-profit groups, municipalities and public agencies to help restore, enhance and preserve wetlands and other important habitats at 170 project sites across Maine. This section provides a look at past projects that have been funded.
| Project Title | Project Sponsor | Funding Round/Year | MNRCP Funds Awarded |
MNRCP Region |
Project Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlet Stream Restoration: Lombard Dam Removal | American Rivers | 2016 | $193,777 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Dam Removal | |
| Three Ponds One Forest | Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust | 2023 | $523,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Sherman Marsh Headwaters-Louderback | Damariscotta River Association | 2016 | $173,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Meadow Brook Wetlands | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2016 | $95,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Little Cobbossee Lake - Weston | Kennebec Land Trust | 2020 | $44,562 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Kate Furbish Preserve Stream Restoration | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2013 | $136,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Dam Removal | |
| Rouse Island | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2020 | $75,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Strawberry Creek | Harpswell Heritage Land Trust | 2020 | $100,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Sherman Marsh Northern Headwaters | Damariscotta River Association | 2018 | $99,500 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Spring Point, Hog Bay | Frenchman Bay Conservancy | 2018 | $94,500 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Old Pond Marsh | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2021 | $29,500 | Downeast Maine | Restoration/Enhancement | |
| Brook Trout Habitat Restoration at Spring River | The Nature Conservancy | 2019 | $51,200 | Downeast Maine | Restoration/Enhancement | |
| Frenchman Bay Forest | Frenchman Bay Conservancy | 2019 | $162,800 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Indian River - Farnsworth | Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation | 2012 | $114,480 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Beaverdam Stream Fish Access Restoration | Downeast Salmon Federation | 2016 | $80,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Flanders Stream Connectivity Project | Town of Sullivan | 2010 | $50,000 | Downeast Maine | Culvert Replacement and Fish Passage | |
| Smelt Brook Intertidal Restoration | Downeast Salmon Federation | 2017 | $133,456 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Bell's Brook Conservation | Downeast Coastal Conservancy | 2017 | $26,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Old Pond-Dembska | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2016 | $110,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Steele Forest Addition | Kennebunkport Conservation Trust | 2010 | $75,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Ann Thurlow Forest | Western Foothills Land Trust | 2020 | $840,500 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Perley Pond/Northwest River | Loon Echo Land Trust | 2013 | $136,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Boulter Pond Wetlands | York Land Trust, Inc. | 2011 | $244,260 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Charles Pond Acquisition | Greater Lovell Land Trust | 2020 | $120,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Salmon Falls Wetlands - Tuckahoe | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2013 | $90,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition |