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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caribou Bog - Dorion | Orono Land Trust | 2012 | $223,300 | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | ||
| Violette Brook | Forest Society of Maine | 2012 | $42,000 | Aroostook Hills and Lowlands | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Pollard Flat Wildife Management Area - Sherman Acquisition | Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife | 2020 | $201,375 | Aroostook Hills and Lowlands | Fee Acquisition | |
| Salmon Brook Enhancement | Town of Washburn | 2014 | $21,000 | Aroostook Hills and Lowlands | ||
| Frenchville Forest | Upper St. John River Organization | 2019 | $89,400 | Aroostook Hills and Lowlands | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Witt Swamp Preserve Extension | Western Foothills Land Trust | 2013 | $97,113 | Central & Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Seven Mile Stream | Androscoggin Land Trust | 2011 | $21,633 | Central & Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Sucker Brook/Horseshoe Pond | Greater Lovell Land Trust | 2011 | $95,000 | Central & Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Third Lake Stream Restoration | Project SHARE | 2018 | $65,000 | Central and Eastern Lowlands | Restoration/Enhancement | |
| Mattawamkeag/Eagle Pond | Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife | 2011 | $115,000 | Central and Eastern Lowlands | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Magalloway River-Howe | Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust | 2017 | $175,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Wessurunsett Inlet | Somerset Woods Trustees | 2022 | $80,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Shiloh Pond | The Trust for Public Land and the Town of Kingfield | 2019 | $336,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Walton's Mill Dam Removal | Atlantic Salmon Federation | 2019 | $395,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Dam Removal | |
| Hunter Cove-Lewin | Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust | 2016 | $160,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Great Meadow Stream Smithfield | Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance, Inc. | 2010 | $119,794 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Kanokolus Bog North | Sebasticook Regional Land Trust | 2010 | $36,200 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Weskeag Wetlands | Georges River Land Trust | 2012 | $347,150 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Maquoit Bay - Henshaw | Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust | 2010 | $150,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Etna Pond Fishway | Atlantic Salmon Federation, Maine Council | 2013 | $62,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fishway Construction | |
| McKenna - Whiskeag Creek | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2010 | $240,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Morse Pond - Collins | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2010 | $38,800 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Middle Bay Wetlands Partnership: Liberty Farm West | Harpswell Heritage Land Trust | 2013 | $35,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Muscongus Bk Webber Pond | Kennebec County Soil & Water Conservation District | 2010 | $150,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Culvert Replacement and Fish Passage | |
| Mill Pond Tidal Restoration | The Nature Conservancy | 2013 | $20,150 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Barrier Removal |