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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little River Habitat Restoration | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2015 | $65,500 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Tidal Flow Restoration | |
| Three Ponds One Forest | Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust | 2023 | $523,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Outlet Stream Restoration - Masse Dam Removal | Sebasticook Regional Land Trust | 2015 | $148,300 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Dam Removal | |
| Basin and Curtis Coves | Harpswell Heritage Land Trust | 2010 | $200,000 | Central Interior and Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Little Cobbossee Lake - Weston | Kennebec Land Trust | 2020 | $44,562 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Pisgah Hill Conservation Area - Hobson 2 | Royal River Conservation Trust | 2010 | $25,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Mill Street Dam removal | Atlantic Salmon Federation, Maine Council | 2014 | $100,000 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Dam Removal | |
| Morse Pond III - Barabe | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2013 | $185,720 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Spectacle/Dam Ponds | Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife | 2010 | $186,857 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Fee Acquisition | |
| Sewall Pond Restoration Project | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | 2013 | $166,200 | Central Interior & Midcoast | Culvert Replacement and Fish Passage |