NRCS NPS PROJECTS WITH TRIBESSharri Venno, Environmental Planner – Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians (HBMI)David Garcelon, Tribal Liaison to the Passamaquoddy – NRCSHelena Swiatek, Tribal Liaison to HBMI - NRCS

Non-Point Source Management on

Houlton Band of Maliseet Lands

Water Quality Impairments:bacteria, pesticides,

low dissolved oxygen,sedimentation

Highly Erodible Land (HEL) & Wetland determinations – 198816 acres planted

Donald Collins NRCSDistrict Conservationist

Conservation Planning Begins!

Riparian Buffers installed & enhanced (1992-2001)- 7 acres

Conservation Reserve Program (1997) –23.7 ac seeded down to Conservation Cover

Sediment Basins / Waterways– HBMIInstalled to capture runoff from adjoining areas and filter before reaching the Meduxnekeag.

Located off Access Road Located off potato fields Keith Roble and John Roy - NRCS

HBMI PLANT MATERIALS CENTER

Streamco Willow

Bankers Willow

Red Osier Dogwood

John Dickerson - NRCSPlant Materials Specialist

Watershed Initiative – (2003-2009)

Soil Erosion at field edge Cover crop

Gully erosion Mulching with straw/hay

Watershed Initiative –Winter Cover Project

Riparian Buffer Projects – HBMI

(above) Riparian buffer at installation and 20 years later

(left) Buffer inter-planting and diversification

Pre-construction – road ditch out letting directly into the Meduxnekeag

Sediment Basin – After. Ditch “plug” and basin. Redirect into the Buffer.

Soils Mapping -1996

Ron Olsen –NRCS Soil Scientist

Ground Penetrating

Radar – 2012

Sue Young –HBMI and Jim Dolittle - NRCS

Cemetery Investigations

Soil Investigations

Then and Now

FUTURE ACTIVITIES - HBMI:Watershed Based PlanPearce Brook Conservation Stewardship ProgramConservation Initiative Program (CIG)Meduxnekeag River Restoration Project

Early Successional Habitat Management and Conservation Cover –Passamaquoddy Tribe(Left) 5 acre clearing will be allowed to regenerate naturally to provide diversity to this even age forest.

(Above) Conservation Cover Planting after Site Preparation completed on 7 acres of a forestland clear cut. This site will be mowed and kept open for wildlife purposes.

Forest Road Improvement -Before

Forest Road Improvement -After

Stream Crossings and Forest Trails

(left) Gulf Stream Bridge Crossing on Passamaquoddy Forest Land in Western Maine

(upper right) NRCS staff survey stream crossing for planned arch culvert as part of access road improvement on Blood Brook Road on Passamaquoddy Land

Pre construction photos of the fish passage project at Mattamicontis Lake 2012.

Post construction at Mattamicontis Lake 2012. -Penobscot Nation

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