Includes overview of environmental issues in the Bay, bibliography of environmental resources for the Bay, archaeology, interesting links, & other topics.
- Annotated Bibliography of Environmental Information Relating to Merrymeeting Bay (web page)
Compiled by Resource Services
Ann Hayden
Brunswick, ME
Date: October, 1997 - Archaeological Survey of the Umberhind, Detweiler, and Gallant Parcels, Bowdoinham, Maine (pdf; file size: 6.8 MB)
Leith Smith, Leon Cranmer, & Art Spiess
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Date: August, 2006 - Revised - Defining a Nuisance: (pdf; file size: 547 KB)
Pollution, Science, and Environmental Politics on Maine’s Androscoggin River
Wallace Scot McFarlane
Environmental History 17 (April 2012):307–335. -
Dresden Falls 2018 Archaeology Field Report (pdf; file size:3.7 MB)
-Testing of 2017 GPR Results-
Arthur Spiess, Leith Smith & John Moser
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
May, 2019 - Duck Shooting Along the Atlantic Tidewater (pdf; file size: 1 MB)
Chapter 3, Merrymeeting Bay
Ransom B. Kelley - 1947 - Duck Shooting on Merrymeeting Bay at the Darton Farms (pdf; file size: 3.2 MB)
Back when you could ride the train to Bowdoinham - The Ecological Collapse and Partial Recovery of a Freshwater Tidal Ecosystem (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB)
John Lichter, et al.
Northeastern Naturalist, Vol 13, No. 2, pp 153-178
Date: 2006 -
Evidence of a Prehistoric Pottery Kiln, Sebasticook River, Winslow, Maine (pdf file 1.4 MB)
Douglas Watts
Posted to Tispaquin's Revenge Blog
October 6, 2009 -
FOMB featured on MSN's Practical Guide to Healthier Living
Video for download (wmv; file size 50 MB) Tim Sheahan (Sheahan Productions)
Essay (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB) Ed Friedman
November 17, 2009 - Generating Electric Power in the Pacific Northwest; Implications of Alternative Technologies
Overview (pdf; file size: 269 KB)
Full Report (pdf; file size: 442 KB)
This study takes an in-depth look at current status and future energy scenarios in the northwest focussing on hydro-electricity and natural gas the primary sources of today's power there. The report also looks closely at cost/benefits of multiple dam removals on the lower Snake River and the issue of safe passage for migratory salmon. The overview document homes in on the dam issue.
RAND Corp.
Date: 2002 - The Hard Way, Bishop 1998 (pdf; file size: 7.6 MB)
with Supplements 4-16-20 - HISTORICAL EUTROPHICATION IN A RIVER–ESTUARY COMPLEX IN
MID-COAST MAINE (pdf; file size: 334 KB)
DORTE KOSTER, JOHN LICHTER, PETER D. LEA, AND ANDREA NURSE
Biology Department and Environmental Studies Program, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
Geology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
Laboratory of Paleoecology and Paleohydrology, Sawyer Research Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469 USA Ecological Applications, 17(3), 2007, pp. 765–778 by the Ecological Society of America -
Historical Summary of Federal Navigation Studies, Authorizations and Improvements & Federal Navigation Project Maintenance in the New England District MAINE
(pdf; file size: 768 KB)
Featured Highlights: Cathance River: Blue; KennebecRiver: Abbagadassett Ledge: Yellow; Beef Rock Dike & Training Wall [mouth of the Eastern River]: Red; Lovejoy Narrows: Green
- History of Settlement Along Abbagadasset Road in Bowdoinham (pdf; file size: 3.2 MB)
Minerva Dunlap, 1982 - Hudson Rising Curriculum (pdf; file size: 19.1 MB)
NY Historical Society 2019 - J. C. Humphreys and his Merrymeeting Bay Shipyard (pdf; file size: 17 MB)
Christopher B. Gutscher - Kennebec_Abenaki_Historical_Demise (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB)
Prins, Harald E. L. 1984.
"Foul Play on the Kennebec: The Historical Background of Fort Western and the Demise of the Abenaki Nation."
The Kennebec Proprietor: Magazine of the Fort Western Museum,
Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 4-14.
- The Kennebec Estuary Report
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust- Table of Contents (PDF 720 KB)
- Estuary Chpt. 1 - Overview of the Kennebec Estuary (PDF 2.4 MB)
- Estuary Chpt.2 - Water Quality (PDF 2 MB)
- Estuary Chpt. 3 - Dominant Plant Communities (PDF 4.4 MB)
- Estuary Chpt. 4 - Diadromous Fish (PDF 2.2 MB)
- Estuary Chpt. 5 - Toxic Contaminants (PDF 1.7 MB)
- Estuary Chpt.6 - Climate Change (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Estuary Chpt.7 - Meeting the Challenge (PDF 423 KB)
- Glossary of Terms (PDF 182 KB)
- Literature Cited (PDF 238 KB)
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Merrymeeting Park \\\1898/// Brunswick, Maine (PDF 4 MB)
"Booklet by Christopher B. Gutscher
1985 -
PEOPLE IN NATURE: Envlronmental History of the
Kennebec River, Maine (pdf file 4 MB)
by Daniel J. Michor
A THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (in History)
The Graduate School The University of Maine
May, 2003 - Pilgram Laws On The Kennebeke River [sic] (pdf; file size: 720 KB)
by Eben L. Elwell
May 23, 1984 - Self-Guided Nature Tour of Merrymeeting Bay. (pdf; file size: 1.6 MB)
Terry Porter
Maine Master Naturalist Program
Jan 27, 2020 -
A Summary of Existing Research on Low-Head Dam Removal Projects (pdf; file size: 2.4 MB)
Requested by: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on the Environment
Prepared by: ICF Consulting
In association with Woodlot Alternatives, Inc.
Date: September, 2005 - Thwings Point Archaeology, Woolwich, Maine
- Report on 2009 Excavations (pdf; file size: 16 KB)
Leon Cranmer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
July 2010 - Report on 2011 Excavations (pdf; file size: 2.2 MB)
Leon Cranmer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
February 2012 - Revised - Report on 2014 Excavations (pdf; file size: 1.9 MB)
Leon Cranmer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
December 2014 - Revised - Report on 2015 Excavations (pdf; file size: 1.9 MB)
Leon Cranmer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
January 2016 - Report on 2017 Excavations (pdf; file size: 2.7 MB)
Leon Cranmer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
January 2018
- Report on 2009 Excavations (pdf; file size: 16 KB)
- The Transient Town of Cork (pdf; file size: 1.8 MB)
by Rev. Henry O. Thayer
Read before the Maine Historical Society, December 9, 1892 - Unnatural Freshwater Flow Project
Thanks to Kiran Yendamuri, Friends of Sebago Lake, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay and Quebec Labrador Foundation -
Weed Control Methods Handbook: Tools and Techniques for Use in Natural Areas (web page)
Authors: Mandy Tu, Callie Hurd, & John M. Randall
Version date: April 2001
