The AWWF’s Coldwater Fish Habitat Temperature Monitoring project has documented that much of the mainstem Allagash River becomes unsuitable for brook trout during the summer months when water temperatures rise above 73 degrees Farenheit. Historically, it was assumed that cooler tributaries provided the refuge necessary for these trout to persist. In...
Read moreFRENCHVILLE — Last month, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation wrapped up its milestone 10th season of connecting young people with Maine’s premier wild river, marking the successful completion of both our high school Advanced Leadership Trip and our ambitious eighth-grade program expansion in the St. John Valley. Over the past 18...
Read moreFRENCHVILLE — The paddles are officially in the water. On Tuesday morning, a historic journey began for 34 eighth-grade students from the Allagash Wilderness Waterway gateway communities of Fort Kent, Frenchville, St. Agatha, and Madawaska as they launched the 2026 Youth on the Allagash expedition. Following a thorough orientation and gear-up...
Read moreEight high school students from Ashland and the St. John Valley just proved that the future of the Allagash is in excellent hands. Emerging from the North Maine Woods this past weekend on Sunday, May 31st, these motivated young paddlers successfully completed the 2026 Youth on the Allagash Advanced Leadership...
Read moreThe successful AWWF Youth on the Allagash (YOTA) trips were expanded in 2023 to include an Advanced Leadership Wilderness Trip. Guided by Canoe the Wild, the leadership trip was a fully outfitted multi‐day paddling and camping trip for high school students from the St. John Valley. Priority was given to...
Read moreAn excellent article on The Telos Cut was written by Elizabeth Bennett and published in the Memories of Maine Magazine Winter 2022 edition. Excerpt: In the 1840s, the need to drive logs down the Penobscot River and into Bangor was so strong it motivated wheeling and dealing, sparked violence, pushed innovation,...
Read moreAWWF President, Bob McIntosh, visits North Maine Woods, Inc offices in Ashland ME to congratulate Al Cowperthwaite on his pending retirement and to meet the incoming Executive Director, Tom Pelletier. Dear Al, I write on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, the “Friends of the Allagash,”...
Read moreThe Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2016. In honor of this milestone, the AWW offered 500 signed and numbered prints of Mark McCollough’s painting of a family paddling below Allagash Falls. A number of these limited edition prints (24 by 20 inches) are still available from the Maine...
Read moreEven Henry David Thoreau stopped by in 1857 to buy four pounds of brown sugar About halfway up the eastern shore of Chamberlain Lake, nestled behind a point of land once called Apmoojenegamook Point (now Hog Point) sits an old farmhouse. The building is all that is left of a thriving...
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