Restoring the Lower Androscoggin River
Channel: Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
Date: 2022-02-11

2021-2022 Zoom Speaker Series
For purposes of this presentation, the Lower Androscoggin River describes the watershed below Lewiston Falls and including the Little Androscoggin. Much of the restoration presentation material draws on the MDMR/MDIFW Draft Fisheries Management Plan. Heinz will cover actions in progress on the Andy and Little Andy including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing challenges and opportunities (virtually all of the dams are up for relicensing in the next 10 years) and the proposed upgrade to water quality classification of the lower river. Much of what happens in the Little Androscoggin depends on the Lower Barker dams, lowest on that tributary. Heinz will close with challenges, areas needing support, calls to action, etc. 
 
Steve Heinz earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Navy commission from the University of Louisville in 1970 through its NROTC program. After a productive career as a naval flight officer, he retired with the rank of commander in 1990. The Navy bought Steve to Maine where he has lived and worked since 1988 and where he became active in Trout Unlimited (TU) over seventeen years ago