CANTON — The Oxford County Soil and Water Conservation District and Threshold To Maine Resource Conservation and Development Area will sponsor a workshop and tour of Whitney Brook from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. The workshop will begin at the Town Office in Canton and then proceed on a walking tour of Whitney Brook.

The purpose is to present information on the ecosystem of Anasagunticook Lake, Whitney Brook and the Androscoggin River in order to raise awareness of the interconnected issues facing that system.

Speakers at the workshop will include Malcolm Ray, professor of engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Bohlen, executive director of the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership; John Field, Field Geology Services; and Jeff Varricchione, biologist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Topics at the workshop will include the Whitney Brook Dam, plans and management issues, stream restoration techniques and management, wetland and floodplain ecology and restoration, fisheries of lake, brook and river, and Whitney Brook rapid stream survey and ecology.

Those with questions about the meeting may contact the Oxford County Soil and Water Conservation District office at 743-5789 or e-mail [email protected]. Those needing an accommodation may notify Mark Hews, Maine Resource Conservation and Development Area coordinator at 657-3131 by Friday, Sept. 18. All services are provided in a non-discriminatory basis.

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