Today, steel rams will start to break apart an old hydroelectric dam on Maine’s longest river, ushering in a restoration project that will keep the electricity flowing while rehabilitating some of the ...

Conservation groups, Native Americans and Maine's power company fought over the fate of the Penobscot River for 13 years. They finally reached an... A Damned Dam On The Penobscot River Like most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The removal of dams that restricted water flow has led to the restoration of a river in Maine. As explained by The Nature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former Great Works Dam site between Old Town and Bradley, Maine on the Penobscot River. (Penobscot River Restoration Trust) ...

The Penobscot River was an ancient thoroughfare for Native Americans in birch-bark canoes, a waterway romanticized by Henry David Thoreau. In the 19th Century, it carried torrents of freshly cut trees ...

(CBS News) BANGOR, Maine -- For the first time in 200 years, the Penobscot River in northeastern Maine is running free. Billed as the largest river restoration project in the country, it took 10 years ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Penobscot Nation ...

About a week before the removal of the Great Works Dam on the Penobscot River in Old Town, Maine, Dan Kusnierz dragged his sons to the riverside to take their picture in front of the aging structure.

New research led by the University of Maine finds that river restoration efforts and increasing river herring runs may help lessen the impacts that seals have on salmon. Whole ecosystem restoration ...

ON THE PENOBSCOT RIVER, Maine—As any fisherman will tell you, small fish are better than no fish. But I didn’t come here for the little guys. Ask around in knowledgeable fly-fishing circles and you’ll ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river. It was a bitter defeat for the ...