Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in several lakes and tributaries in western and central Maine and flowing about 560 km (350 mi) to Penobscot Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean.
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- noun a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
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Examples
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On 2016, the 100th anniversary of the national park system, she wants to donate her land between Mount Katahdin and the Penobscot River along the border of Baxter State Park.
Mill Towns Now Look to Saving Trees Jennifer Levitz 2011
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It spread to the east coast of North America, where the Connecticut River and the Penobscot River both had abundant salmon long ago.
Paul Greenberg: Remembrances of Fish Lost Paul Greenberg 2011
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The Foundation also successfully took legal action to prevent offshore oil drilling in the Georges Bank, a crucial fishery off the New England coast, and to block construction of the proposed "Big A" dam on the Penobscot River in Maine.
Henry Miller: America Loses a Groundbreaking Environmentalist 2010
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And, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council, he was instrumental in getting NRDC to join with the Maine People's Alliance to file a successful and precedent-setting suit against HoltraChem to clean up mercury dumped into the Penobscot River.
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His family had longstanding ties to Maine - especially to the town of Castine, on the banks of the Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay - as well as to Vermont.
Henry Miller: America Loses a Groundbreaking Environmentalist 2010
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And, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council, he was instrumental in getting NRDC to join with the Maine People's Alliance to file a successful and precedent-setting suit against HoltraChem to clean up mercury dumped into the Penobscot River.
Henry Miller: America Loses a Groundbreaking Environmentalist 2010
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A successful example for the authors 'approach is the relicensing agreement between a power company, the Penobscot Indian Nation and environmental NGOs regarding hydropower plants on the Penobscot River in the Northeastern US.
Peter Bosshard: The Forgotten Downstream Victims of Large Dams 2010
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The Foundation also successfully took legal action to prevent offshore oil drilling in the Georges Bank, a crucial fishery off the New England coast, and to block construction of the proposed "Big A" dam on the Penobscot River in Maine.
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A successful example for the authors 'approach is the relicensing agreement between a power company, the Penobscot Indian Nation and environmental NGOs regarding hydropower plants on the Penobscot River in the Northeastern US.
Peter Bosshard: The Forgotten Downstream Victims of Large Dams 2010
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His family had longstanding ties to Maine - especially to the town of Castine, on the banks of the Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay - as well as to Vermont.
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