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The following is a list of various links that people
may find useful as they search for information about conservation or
contacts who may prove helpful. This is a new page which will be
developed over time and which simply includes links to other websites
and individuals.
You will need to exercise your own
judgment to determine how helpful the links are.
Click on the group's name and you will hopefully be
transported, through the magic of the internet, to their website.
MACD Website with its links
to other statewide SWCD information
State Agencies
State of Maine
Homepage
Maine
Department of Environmental Protection
For
other links in the DEP website
check this list
This will help you
link to forms for the Permit By Rule,
their buffer and watershed protection resources i.e. gravel road,
erosion control etc., and
their road association resources.
Maine
Department of Agriculture
Maine Board of Pesticides
good link to
information for low impact practices and examples
Maine Yardscaping program
good link to the
Yardscaping projects including information about storm runoff control,
low maintenance landscaping, rain gardens, etc.
Maine
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Maine
Department of Transportation
Maine State
Planning Office
Maine Department
of Conservation
Maine
Legislature
Maine Cooperative Extension
Service
Link to the new Ag in the
Classroom at www.agclassroom.org
Federal Agencies
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
Natural
Resources Conservation Service of Maine (NRCS)
NRCS Web Based Soil Surveys
http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA)
Time & Tide Council [website down at this time] The Time & Tide
Council is an organization to help landowners and others develop projects
having to do with conservation and sustainable energy in the Kennebec
and Mid-Coast area. It is no longer funded by USDA and is in the
process of reorganizing.
Soil and Water Conservation Districts
National Association
of Conservation Districts
Maine Association of Conservation
Districts
Go to the
MACD website for current links to all of Maine's Soil & Water
Conservation Districts.
Watershed Organizations & Lake Associations
Androscoggin Lake
Improvement Corporation
Belgrade Regional Conservation
Alliance (BRCA)
Belgrade Lakes
Association
China Region Lakes Alliance
(CRLA)
East Pond Association
Fire Road 53 on China Lake
[good collection of Road Association resources]
Friends of Cobbossee
Watershed
Four Towns Watershed Association
(Pleasant Pond) (FTWA)
Lakes
Environmental Association
Maine Congress of
Lake Associations (COLA)
Maine Lakes Conservancy
Institute
Maine Volunteer
Lake Monitors (VLMP)
Messalonskee Lake/Snow Pond Lake
Association
North American Lake
Management Society (NALMS)
Parker Pond Association
Portland Water District
Snow Pond/Messalonskee Lake
Association
Threemile Pond Association
Togus Pond Association
30 Mile River Watershed
Association (30 MRWA) [western border of
Kennebec Co.]
Maine Association of Conservation
Commissions
click to look at their brochure
[statewide organization for local Conservation
Commissions]
Endangered
and Invasive Species
Maine Species of Endangered and Threatened Fish and Wildlife List
Information on
selected invasive species of the Eastern Region
Native Plants: A Maine Source List
Plant Stuff
Plant
Hardiness Zone Map of Maine
The Official Maine
Register of Big Trees - 2001
Northern Trees Website to help in plant selection. |
Kennebec
County Soil & Water Conservation District
