Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content elcome! In March 2019, after a 12 year community effort involving many hours of work, the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook received a National Wild & Scenic Rivers designation. Residents of the nine Lowe…
Water Quality – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content QUIET REFLECTION (Photo by Tom Cameron) Salmon Brook is considered to exhibit among the highest water quality of any river in Connecticut. Due to the excellent water quality of Salmon Brook it i…
Our Towns – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content When a river is designated Wild & Scenic, it has permanent federal protection, not only from new federal projects such as dams and hydroelectric facilities, but from other projects with federal fund…
Cultural Landscape – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content AGRICULTURE ALONG THE RIVER (Photo by Wanda Colman) Nationally and Regionally Significant Archaeological Record Nationally Significant Archaeological Sites associated with the river, includ…
The Lower Farmington River – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content RIVER SPIRITS (Photo by Tom Cameron) The Lower Farmington River presents a sharp contrast to its upper reaches in Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. The upper river is generall…
Why are Our Watercourses Special? – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content FARMINGTON RIVER UPSTREAM OF UNIONVILLE (Photo by Tom Cameron) Outstandingly Remarkable Values To be designated as Wild & Scenic under the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, a river m…
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…Salmon Runs at Resurrection Bay - Year 4 ASLC: Salmon Exhibit Tank Inserts ASMI Wild Alaska Salmon Campaign Assessing Thermal Habitat Variability to Identify Refugia in SE Alaska Subsistence Salmon Watersheds Assessing Thermal Sensitivities of Salmon Habitats in the Cook Inlet, C…
Wild Atlantic salmon are one of nine NOAA Fisheries’ Species in the Spotlight , which is an initiative to spotlight and save those species at the greatest risk of extinction. Almost 500,000 wild Atlantic salmon once lived in the rivers and ocean from New York to the Canadian bord…
…adults for every 100 smolt. Biologists from Oregon and Idaho, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and various tribes estimate that Snake River dam breaching will increase smolt-to-adult return ratios by four times. Taking out the four lower Snake River dams would return 140 miles…
Wild and Scenic Film Festival – Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic Skip to content OTHER EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROJECTS LFSWS was proud to again help host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival along with our partners, FRWA and the Farmington River Coordinating Committ…