Nature Note:Penobscot Restoration

The Nature Conservancy,together with other environmental groups and state,federal and tribal governments,is working to restore Maine's Penobscot River to its natural condition.Three dams on the river are to be bought.Two of them will be removed,and a fish bypass will be installed by the other.This will reopen much of the Penobscot drainage to migratory fish such as Atlantic salmon.The Nature Conservancy has helped with similar projects on China's Yangtze River and the Zambezi River in East Africa.