Our Partners
This research would not have been possible without support from the Marine Conservation Biology Institute with a Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grant in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology in 2007.
If you wish to contribute, please contact us.
We have benefited immensely from the expertise of our primary collaborators:
Bruce Connery, Acadia National Park, National Park Service
Ted Ames, Penobscot East Resource Center
Will Hopkins, Cobscook Resource Center,
Michelle Dionne and Jacob Aman, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
Many people from Federal, State and Local organizations helped in the collection of the data for this project. Furthermore, we must thanks the generous people of Maine who invited us onto their property and into their homes to contribute stories, photographs and information that can only be passed on from generation to generation. They are listed below, and in the obstruction database.
GOMHER Partners
Governement Agencies
Michele Dionne, Research Director, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
Robert Houston
Sandra Lary
Jed Wright
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
Greg Mackey
Tom Squiers
Gail Wippelhauser
Maine Department of Marine Resources, Bureau of Sea-Run Fisheries and Habitat
Thomas King
Edward Peter Steenstra
Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery
Fred Trasko
Green Lake National Fish Hatchery
Dan Kircheis
National Marine Fisheries Service
Town Administrations (alewife harvest data permission)
Michelle Beal
Town of Ellsworth
Connie Brown
Town of Orland
Lynette Eastman
Town of Woolwich
Ron Grenier
Town of Newcastle
Peter Wass
Town of Surry
Steve Wilson
Winnegance Alewife Commission
Dam Site Owners/Managers
John Trube
Rocky Gorge Hydroelectric Plant
Adair O'Reilly
Days Mill
Larry Gleeson
Goose River Hydro, Inc.
Susan Briggs
Lombard Dam
Other Organizations
Jamie Kingman Rice
Maine Historical Society
Beth Dimond
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Jennifer Curtis
Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Bill Cook
Local History/Special Collections, Bangor Public Library
Brenda Howiston Steeves
Special Collections Dept., Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of ME Orono
David Lamon
Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary
Bill R. Robinson
Dennys River Guide Service
Joel Frantzman
Sullivan Harbor Farm Smokehouse
Jon & Melinda Jacques
Lincoln House, Dennysville
Michelle Bierman
Acadia Partners/SERC
A.R. Whitten
Winter Harbor contractor
Darrell and Angela Young
Ellsworth alewife harvesters
Pam & Denny Harmon
West Franklin, have historic pictures of mill on Mill Brook estuary