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Habitat Restoration Partnership Trout Unlimited NOAA Kennebec River, ME Restoration Needs Salmon populations and their habitats have been declining for many decades. Causes include habitat impairments like sedimentation,

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Trout Unlimited – NOAA Habitat Restoration Partnership

Kennebec River, ME

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Restoration Needs

Salmon populations and their habitats have been declining for

many decades.

Causes include habitat impairments like sedimentation,

migration barriers, and degraded riparian areas.

Research has shown that more than 200 populations are at risk
f extinction and another 106 stocks are already extinct in

California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

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NOAA Open Rivers Initiative

Provides funding and technical expertise for small dam and river

barrier removals

Funding of up to $6,000,000 expected for project grants in FY 2010.

Typical awards range from $200,000 to $750,000.

NOAA has removed more than 90 dams and stream blockages,
pening more than 1,700 miles of high quality river habitat for

migratory fish.

Contoocook River, NH

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NOAA Community-Based Restoration Program

Began in 1996 to support local efforts to restore marine, estuarine, and

riparian habitat.

Emphasizes collaborative strategies built around improving coastal and

marine resources and the quality of life in the communities they sustain.

1,200 on-the-ground restoration projects in 26 states.

Thompson Creek, Oregon

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Trout Unlimited – NOAA Partnership

70 habitat projects in 11 coastal states.
Partnerships with timber companies, dam owners, and others
232 miles of reconnected or restored river and stream habitat,
Return of salmon and steelhead to nine watershed areas where

they had been extirpated

New alcove, Thompson Creek, OR

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Edwards Dam Removal, Kennebec River, ME

Height, 24ft.; Length 917 ft; impounded:19,000 acre/ft
Built 1837; removed 1999
17 miles of prime habitat on the Kennebec River

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Penobscot River Dam Removal

Restoring salmon habitat in Maine Restoring salmon habitat in Maine’ ’s largest watershed s largest watershed

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Penobscot River Restoration Project is on track: $25M raised; dams purchased; next step removal

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“Are they all this size?”

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North Coast Coho Project, California

411 Road Miles Decommissioned or Upgraded
274 Instream Structures Installed
374,503 Cubic Yards of Sediment Prevented Entering Streams

(or about 37,000 dump trucks worth of sediment)

7 Migration Barriers Removed
12 Miles of Stream Reopened to fish

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Little Waldron Fish Passage Site

Replaced a failing, undersized culvert with a bridge.
Reconnected over 1 mile of habitat for coho and Chinook salmon and

steelhead trout.

Sediment savings of over 1,000 cubic yards of sediment.

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Standley Creek Sediment Reduction

Removed collapsed log spanner

bridge and associated backfill

Sediment savings of over 8,000

cubic yards of sediment (800 dump trucks)

Reconnected 0.5 miles of habitat

for coho and Chinook salmon and steelhead trout

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South Fork Ten Mile River Large Wood Instream Habitat Enhancement Project

330 pieces of large woody material