Project Description
To compensate for lost public recreational uses of Portland Harbor, the Julie N Oil Spill Natural Resource Trustees awarded a $125,000 grant to the non-profit urban land trust Portland Trails in October 2000 for the construction of a one-mile segment of the Fore River Trail, and for interpretive signage along the trail. The trail construction was completed by the Maine Conservation Corps (MCC) in the summer of 2001 and dedicated in a public ceremony on September 27, 2001, the fifth anniversary of the Julie N oil spill. This addition to the Fore River Trail System along an area of shoreline heavily oiled by the Julie N spill provides a wide array of recreational and ecological benefits to the public.
DOI Project Representatives
Fish and Wildlife Service