Past Projects
Since its launch in 2008, the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program (MNRCP) has awarded over $9 million in competitive grants to non-profit groups, municipalities and public agencies to help restore, enhance and preserve wetlands and other important habitats at more than 78 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Hill IV-Roberts | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2017 | $129,375 | Fee Acquisition | ||
| Salmon Brook Enhancement | Town of Washburn | 2014 | $21,000 | Aroostook Hills & Lowlands | Revegetation riparian planting | |
| Violette Brook | Forest Society of Maine | 2012 | $42,000 | Aroostook Hills & 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 | |
| Mattawamkeag/Eagle Pond | Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife | 2011 | $115,000 | Central and Eastern Lowlands | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Hunter Cove-Lewin | Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust | 2016 | $160,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Magalloway River-Howe | Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust | 2017 | $175,000 | Central and Western Mountains | Fee Acquisition | |
| Upper Cathance River II - Karonis | Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust | 2013 | $30,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Wallace Shore Road Tidal Restriction Restoration | Casco Bay Estuary Partnership | 2013 | $115,236 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Culvert replacement tidal flow enhancement | |
| Pushaw Lake Fishway | Atlantic Salmon Federation, Maine Council | 2011 | $50,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fishway Construction | |
| Sebasticook River Conservation Acquistions | Sebasticook Regional Land Trust | 2011 | $304,316 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Long Cove Wetlands | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2014 | $290,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| St George River Tidal Conservation | Georges River Land Trust | 2011 | $170,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Morse Pond IV | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2014 | $146,780 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Parker Head Road Tidal Enhancement | Town of Phippsburg | 2014 | $40,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Culvert replacement tidal flow enhancement | |
| Upper Cathance River Wetlands - Perry | Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust | 2011 | $70,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Wallamatogus - Great Heath | Blue Hill Heritage Trust | 2011 | $150,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Caribou Bog - Dorion | Orono Land Trust | 2012 | $223,300 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Davis/Holbrook Fishway | Atlantic Salmon Federation, Maine Council | 2012 | $50,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fishway Construction | |
| Whitten Hill: Sheepscot Headwaters Wildlands | Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance | 2009 | $175,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Morse Pond II | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2012 | $195,300 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Moulton's Mill II | Sebasticook Regional Land Trust | 2012 | $186,500 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Penjajawoc Marsh - Severance | Bangor Land Trust | 2012 | $282,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition |