OUR STORY
“RESTORE wants to bring back to ecological health a big chunk of turf that most have written off: New England.”
Our Mission
The mission of RESTORE: The North Woods is to create new national parks, save natural forests, and protect endangered wildlife. RESTORE is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1992 by veteran conservationists and grassroots activists. We are grassroots based, using advocacy, public education, and citizen activism to address the root causes of our ecological crisis — not just the symptoms.
Our Successes
Filed petitions that led to the protection under the federal Endangered Species Act of the Atlantic salmon and Canada lynx
Campaigned for 3.2-million Maine Woods National Park & Preserve, laying the groundwork for President Obama's 2016 designation Katahdin Woods Woods and Waters National Monument
Won a lawsuit protecting pristine Loon Pond from ski area development in the White Mountain National Forest
Won legal protection for a rare old-growth forest on Mount Wachusett in Massachusetts
Helped to lead a coalition that saved Henry David Thoreau's birthplace
Stopped a proposal to increase motorized access to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Took legal action which has held back massive real-estate development around Maine's beautiful Moosehead Lake
Pioneered efforts to restore the wolf to the northeastern United States
Launched the New National Parks campaign to help grassroots groups expand parks across America
Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper challenging growing pressure to clear and burn standing forests to expand habitat for favored, non-endangered species
Built public awareness and support for legislation to permanently protect Massachusetts state-owned lands from logging and other intensive management
Contact Us
RESTORE: The North Woods
P.O. Box 1099
Concord, MA 01742
restore [at] restore.org
(978) 392-0404