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...Land and to the shrines of Europe top the charts in popularity, almost any type of trip can be cast as faith-based travel, even white-water rafting. One of the most popular trips organized by the Windfall Outdoor Center in Maine is a run down the state's Kennebec River through rugged wilderness. The outing includes lunch and devotionals around a campfire. "What better place to talk about the beauty of God's creation," says Bob Chaffee, 50, who has taken his family on the rafting trip numerous times in the past 15 years, as part of a weeklong...
That many good things can happen when dams are removed is well documented. In 1999, for example, when a deconstruction crew took a wrecking ball to the Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River, the results stunned even those who had lobbied for the dam's removal. Important fish species that used to swim from the ocean to spawn upstream--Atlantic salmon, alewives, sturgeon and shad--didn't just come back, marvels Pete Didisheim, advocacy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, "they surged back." The next year, almost a million alewives were massing in the river. Fish...
These days he is leading a fight to dismantle some of the nation's hydroelectric dams, once essential for people, now destructive of spawning salmon. Chouinard was instrumental in the taking down of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine. Today, at the other end of the Snake, in the State of Washington, the government, egged on by Chouinard, is looking for ways to put such dams as the Little Goose out of service...
...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
...have begun to launch restoration projects of unprecedented scale. The Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois Nature Conservancy has begun to resurrect thousands of hectares...