You're invited! Come have a beer with the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation on November 19 at Allagash Brewing Company in Portland. Please join AWWF board members, advisors and staff as we discuss our efforts to preserve, protect and enhance the wilderness character of this unique Maine waterway. The event is a chance...
Read moreA devastating threat is bearing down on New England’s oldest documented artistic tradition. Emerald ash borer, an insect native to Asia, has barreled through ash stands in at least 35 states and three Canadian provinces since it was first documented in Michigan and Ontario in 2002. Brown ash (Fraxinus nigra), the...
Read moreNorthern Maine’s resident wildcat- the Canada Lynx, is doing quite well along the shores of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. In fact, so well, that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which currently lists the lynx as threatened, has started the process of delisting the lynx from the endangered species list. While...
Read moreAlthough I had worked along different stretches of the Allagash starting when I was fresh out of college in 1979, my first canoe trip down the entire river was with my daughters, my husband, and a few friends in 1999. I’d paddled many rivers in Maine, but never the Allagash. It seemed like an ideal river...
Read more
