'One Of The Best Nature Shows': A River Transformed After Dams Come Down

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO • June 21, 2020

When Steve Brooke and others began talking about getting rid of the Kennebec dam and another dam at the mouth of Maine's Sebasticook River, many Mainers didn't see the point. There were hints of the Sebasticook's former productivity; 3,000 year-old fish traps built by the Wabanaki people were found in an upstream lake. But Brooke says many people had never seen a large river system in its natural state. Now the Sebasticook has the nation's largest run of alewives and blueback herring. And many other migratory fish are using the river.