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St.
Croix International Waterway:
A Heritage - A Future
St. Croix
International Waterway Management Plan Download (.pdf)
Highlights
 This Plan was developed by the St. Croix International Waterway Commission in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding
and legislation by the Province of New Brunswick and the State
of Maine to jointly manage shared heritage resources along the
portion of their common border defined by the St. Croix River
system. It establishes international goals and policies for management
that seek to preserve and celebrate a corridor heritage, maintain
environmental integrity and support the region's resource-based
economy. It also recommends actions by which Maine, New Brunswick
and others may begin to implement these policies.
The Plan most
notably outlines steps to:
- 1) Recognize
the St. Croix as an International Heritage Waterway, setting
this theme for future corridor development and management.
- 2) Agree
on high, international water quality goals, with coordinated
action to pursue them.
- 3) Retain
a natural shoreland area along the waterfront as an environmental
and visual asset.
- 4) Enhance
recreational uses of the St. Croix, including back-country canoeing
and a restored Spednic Lake bass fishery.
- 5) Encourage
continued economic development that complements the Waterway's
international strengths in forest resources, tourism and transportation
in ways compatible with environmental goals.
- 6) Implement special
management for Spednic Lake and the upper St. Croix River as
an international Conservation Area, to preserve their outstanding
natural and recreational assets.
- 7) Coordinate
governmental planning to address on-going management issues,
particularly water quality and use, fisheries, recreation and
growth management.
- 8) Facilitate
a greater local role in Waterway planning and management through
increased public involvement and through an on-going, locally-based
Waterway commission.
The Plan establishes the framework
for a long-term process that is unique in the Canadian-American
setting. Its implementation by Maine and New Brunswick in cooperation
with other levels of government and the private sector sets new
directions for future integrated management.
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
The St. Croix Region 6
Waterway Definition and Goals 8
Management Directions and Policies 10
International Heritage Waterway 10
Environmental Setting 12
Human Heritage 19
Natural Heritage 23
Recreational Heritage 28
Economic Development 38
Waterway Management 48
Toward Implementation 58
References 59
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