Past Projects
Since its launch in 2008, the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program (MNRCP) has awarded over $20 million in competitive grants to non-profit groups, municipalities and public agencies to help restore, enhance and preserve wetlands and other important habitats at 130 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passagassawakeag Headwaters | Coastal Mountains Land Trust | 2021 | $112,832 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Walden Parke Preserve 2 | Bangor Land Trust | 2021 | $394,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Surry Forest Wetlands | Blue Hill Heritage Trust | 2016 | $495,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Muddy & Cathance River Corridor | Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust | 2016 | $220,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Old Pond-Dembska | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2016 | $110,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or 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 | |
| Beaverdam Stream Fish Access Restoration | Downeast Salmon Federation | 2016 | $80,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| 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 | |
| Spring Point, Hog Bay | Frenchman Bay Conservancy | 2018 | $94,500 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Indian River - Farnsworth | Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation | 2012 | $114,480 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Flanders Stream Connectivity Project | Town of Sullivan | 2010 | $50,000 | Downeast Maine | Culvert Replacement and Fish Passage | |
| Granite State Wetlands | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2010 | $100,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Norton Heirs | York Land Trust | 2021 | $91,400 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Porter Heath | Francis Small Heritage Trust | 2021 | $127,305 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Walnut Hill II | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2012 | $260,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Crooked River, Scribner Parcel | Western Foothills Land Trust | 2019 | $42,380 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Suckfish Brook II - McDermott Way | Town of Falmouth | 2016 | $245,260 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Deering - Northwest River | Loon Echo Land Trust | 2019 | $30,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Perley Pond/Northwest River | Loon Echo Land Trust | 2013 | $136,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Steele Forest Addition | Kennebunkport Conservation Trust | 2010 | $75,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Eliot Wildlife Passage Structure | Maine Department of Transportation | 2019 | $120,000 | Southern Maine | Culvert Replacement | |
| Salmon Falls Wetlands - Tuckahoe | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2013 | $90,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Boulter Pond Wetlands | York Land Trust, Inc. | 2011 | $244,260 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition |