NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):

National Coastal Resilience Fund

Project Title: Restoring Tidal Flows to Schoppee Marsh and Increasing the Coastal Resilience of Machias (ME)

Organization:

Downeast Salmon Federation

Project ID:

0318.20.069530

Award Amount:

$107780.26

Location:

Schoppee Marsh is a fringing marsh comprising part of the Machias Bay Estuary in Washington County, in eastern Maine (GPS: 44.720364, -67.438128). The marsh is in the Town of Machias just .75 miles from and in direct sight of the town’s historic low-lying commercial center and county seat.