Current Events
Janet McMahon
Ecologist, Maine
"A River in Space and Time: Lessons from the Allagash"
Mark your calendar for the next NEBS Meeting on Friday, October 4, 2024 at 7pm ET via Zoom.
Abstract: Ecologist Janet McMahon will summarize the results of her recently completed ecological assessment of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. The Waterway is extraordinary in many ways. It offers an unparalleled river canoe camping experience, drawing paddlers from throughout the United States and beyond. Of the 69 eastern rivers in the National Wild and Scenic River System, the Allagash is the longest wild river and the most remote. It lies at the heart of the largest and most intact temperate forest in North America, and perhaps the world, and provides a critical ecological link between the western Maine mountains and the Gaspé peninsula. The river's watershed is the most important stronghold for wild brook trout, lake trout, and whitefish east of the Mississippi. It also includes more than 25 percent of the nation's largest globally significant bird area and provides nesting habitat for all of Maine's northern forest warblers. Riverside seeps and ice-scoured shores along the lower river are home to a variety of rare plant species. The deltas and floodplains that have formed at the mouths of the river's many tributaries are teeming with waterfowl and wading birds and support a rich diversity of wetland plants.
Non-members may register for the meeting access link here.
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Olivia Asher
Naveed Davoodian
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Stacy Taylor-Bennetts
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Dr. Brook T. Moyers
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Laura Costello
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Congratulations to our 2024 Graduate Student Research Award Winners
Rachel Hopkins
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