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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salmon Falls - Keay Brook | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2014 | $213,400 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Falmouth Conservation Corridor - Boudreau | Town of Falmouth | 2009 | $72,700 | Southern Maine | Conservation Easement Acquisition | |
| Eliot Wildlife Passage Structure | Maine Department of Transportation | 2019 | $120,000 | Southern Maine | Culvert Replacement | |
| Bell Marsh Wetlands, York | York Land Trust, Inc. | 2010 | $298,907 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Suckfish Brook | Town of Falmouth | 2011 | $182,800 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Fuller Farm Expansion | Scarborough Land Trust | 2022 | $118,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Hansen Pond Restoration Sites | Three Rivers Land Trust | 2019 | $38,050 | Southern Maine | Restoration/Enhancement | |
| Morgan Meadow - Maloney | Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife | 2009 | $167,851 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Johnson Brook - Sisk | Kittery Land Trust | 2022 | $235,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Kennebunk Plains - Fenderson Connector | Town of Wells | 2019 | $120,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Mt Agamenticus Wetlands I | Great Works Regional Land Trust | 2009 | $66,300 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Kezar Corridor - Rolfe | Greater Lovell Land Trust | 2022 | $30,000 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Lower Gloucester Village and Intervale Project | Royal River Conservation Trust | 2019 | $191,695 | Southern Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Bell's Brook Conservation | Downeast Coastal Conservancy | 2017 | $26,000 | 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 | |
| Spring Point, Hog Bay | Frenchman Bay Conservancy | 2018 | $94,500 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition | |
| Old Pond-Dembska | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2016 | $110,000 | Downeast Maine | Fee Acquisition with Restoration or Enhancement | |
| Old Pond Marsh | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | 2021 | $29,500 | Downeast Maine | Restoration/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 | |
| 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 |