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💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>The Ecological Benefits Of More Room For Rivers<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00403-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-004</span><span class="invisible">03-0</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morphology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/meander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meander</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/levee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>levee</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oxbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxbow</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pointbar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pointbar</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landform</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphometry</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fluvial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fluvial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/riverine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riverine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erosion</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sediment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sediment</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sedimentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sedimentation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEM</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/floodplain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floodplain</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/terraces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terraces</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ecsosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecsosystems</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainable</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/floodrisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floodrisk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hazard</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/planning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/monitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monitoring</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/unconfined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconfined</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rive</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/channel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>channel</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metaecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/connections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>connections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/extremeweather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremeweather</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Fluvial System Block Diagrams<br>--<br>I was looking to understand a fluvial system the other day, up in the high Arctic, as I looked at 3DEP remote sensed elevation data… I have always been fascinated by the how geology, water, weather shapes a landscape, including erosion (aka geomorphology if you will) – and realized how very much value fluvial block diagrams have as we try to conceptualise what has, is and will happen(ed.)<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morphology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/meander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meander</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/levee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>levee</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oxbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxbow</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pointbar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pointbar</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landform</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphometry</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fluvial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fluvial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/riverine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riverine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erosion</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sediment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sediment</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sedimentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sedimentation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/3dep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3dep</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEM</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BeringSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeringSea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/northslope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>northslope</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fedservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedservice</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Are drying <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rivers</span></a> a warning of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Europe</span></a>&#39;s tomorrow?</p><p>by Paul Hokenos<br />13 September 2022</p><p>&quot;Across southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Romania" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Romania</span></a>, much of which relies on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Danube" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Danube</span></a> for fresh <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farmland</span></a> that Europe relies upon for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corn</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grain</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sunflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sunflowers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vegetables" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vegetables</span></a>. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania&#39;s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hydropower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hydropower</span></a> utility <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hidroelectrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hidroelectrica</span></a> generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wheat</span></a> farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe&#39;s largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia&#39;s blockage of much of Ukraine&#39;s wheat exports.</p><p>&quot;&#39;At towns up and down the Danube, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drought</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> take on an existential meaning,&#39; explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackSea</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackForest</span></a>. &#39;In contrast to city dwellers, they&#39;re having this disaster unfold before their eyes.&#39;&quot;</p><p>[...]</p><p>&quot;Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers&#39; decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/salts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>salts</span></a> and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/saline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>saline</span></a> content and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherWaterTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HigherWaterTemperatures</span></a>, which can be lethal for many species of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Riverine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Riverine</span></a> life, such as Danube <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/salmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>salmon</span></a>, b#arbel, and European <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grayling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grayling</span></a>, among many others.</p><p>&quot;Higher temperatures also feed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlgaeBlooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlgaeBlooms</span></a>, Singer explains, which can be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toxic</span></a> for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/perch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>perch</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>catfish</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pike</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>asp</span></a> – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)&quot;</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2022091</span><span class="invisible">2-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DanubeRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DanubeRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HungerGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HungerGames</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Opinion: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GorhamConnector" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GorhamConnector</span></a> plan threatens river <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeritageTrout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HeritageTrout</span></a></p><p>Building a new road along the banks of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedBrook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedBrook</span></a> will render barren a unique stretch of riparian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/shoreline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shoreline</span></a> – with all the adverse consequences you might expect.</p><p>by C. Ian Stevenson<br />February 27, 2024</p><p>&quot;While proponents tout the toll-road Gorham Connector as promising to shorten commutes and relieve traffic pressure in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreaterPortlandMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreaterPortlandMaine</span></a>, there has already been substantial pushback to the concept. Regardless of how much (or for how long) travel-based advantage the new roadway might bring, as proposed it will have pronounced, unambiguously negative effects to the area.</p><p>&quot;Maine is known for its sense of place. Many components contribute to what makes the state unique and desirable. Among these is the built environment, such as the 13th-generation Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, which the proposed route threatens to erode, if not entirely extinguish, as an economically viable vestige of Maine’s once robust agricultural heritage. Others have amply sounded the alarm about this issue.</p><p>&quot;But the route introduces other threats to the more naturalistic landscape. Starting at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmilingHillFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmilingHillFarm</span></a> and running south-southeasterly to I-295 is a five-mile section of Red Brook that mostly nestles in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DenseForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DenseForest</span></a>. Between County Road and Running Hill Road, in particular, Red Brook occupies one of the few contiguous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/undeveloped" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>undeveloped</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Riverine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Riverine</span></a> stretches in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthernMaine</span></a>. While unassuming in scale, Red Brook is nevertheless remarkable for supporting one of the last remaining native populations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrookTrout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrookTrout</span></a> in this part of the state.</p><p>&quot;The proposed road will immediately abut the river, sitting nearly on its banks, for as much as a mile south of the County Road Interchange. This will degrade habitat, destroying the trees whose overhanging foliage provides shade and cooling effects for these temperature-sensitive fish and creates shelter from predators. It will make barren riparian shoreline that supports the aquatic and terrestrial insects that provide the primary trout food sources. The road itself will also contribute oil, salt and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/runoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>runoff</span></a> to the river, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polluting</span></a> the water. As a result of these factors, this connector will likely <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exterminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>exterminate</span></a> this population of brook trout.</p><p>&quot;Why should we care about a small river and its brook trout? Although this is not the official state fish, the fishing community widely considers it the prize species to catch, with so-called wild populations assuming even more cherished status. Brook trout provide a link across generations and cultural traditions and belong to everyone. Human inhabitants of Maine – from the original <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> to European colonists to modern Americans – have been catching these &#39;native&#39; fish for millennia. Other parts of Maine, especially further north and west, have healthy native brook trout fisheries, making Maine highly regarded nationally as a destination to catch them.</p><p>&quot;The fact that Red Brook, in the heart of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreaterPortland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreaterPortland</span></a>, belongs to this orbit is no small feat. Most of the area’s waterways have already succumbed to habitat loss, development, predatory introduced species, warming temperatures and increased flooding due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. Red Brook provides an opportunity for future <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mainers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mainers</span></a> who might not have access to brook trout streams further afield to enjoy this natural amenity. Even if you do not care about fishing, this road promises to annihilate a population of one of our state’s heritage species, as well as its scenic habitat that also contributes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a>’s sense of place.</p><p>&quot;<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeterMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeterMills</span></a>, the executive director of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineTurnpikeAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaineTurnpikeAuthority</span></a>, claims his organization has &#39;gone to great lengths to minimize impacts to Red Brook,&#39; but clearly it hasn’t gone far enough under the current proposal. There are yet solutions.</p><p>&quot;Citizens can express concerns at a hearing planned for March or via the Maine Turnpike Authority’s online portal. If the connector is to be built, planners need to re-route to establish a buffer zone between the connector and river – even a few hundred feet would have a positive impact. While less ideal than a complete reworking of the route, this would at least retain the primary shoreline flora and fauna and allow for run-off infrastructure. And we could re-route the road to save Smiling Hill Farm at the same time. Or better yet, we could re-consider the whole project’s merit entirely.&quot;</p><p>Source:<br /><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2024/02/27/opinion-gorham-connector-plan-threatens-river-ecosystem-heritage-trout/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2024/02/27/opi</span><span class="invisible">nion-gorham-connector-plan-threatens-river-ecosystem-heritage-trout/</span></a></p><p>MTA website (make your opinion known!):<br /><a href="https://www.maineturnpike.com/Projects/Planning/Gorham-Connector.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">maineturnpike.com/Projects/Pla</span><span class="invisible">nning/Gorham-Connector.aspx</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkingFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sprawl</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GorhamSpur" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GorhamSpur</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InducedDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InducedDemand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GorhamConnector" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GorhamConnector</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wetlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Meadows</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalImpact</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveSmilingHillFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveSmilingHillFarm</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveTheWoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveTheFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wetlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Woods" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Woods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LessCars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreLightRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoreLightRail</span></a></p>