The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, in collaboration with longtime conservation partner the Appalachian Mountain Club, celebrated the removal of one of the final remaining fish passage barriers on the West Branch of the Pleasant River, allowing species like the federally endangered Atlantic salmon and brook trout to swim freely upstream to spawn once again.
Maine is home to the only remaining populations of wild Atlantic salmon in the United States.
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A coalition working to remove the aged Ela Dam in Swain County has raised $8 million of an estimated $10 million needed to complete the project. Frank.