Atop Tunk Mountain - Inland Downeast Maine is a landscape of evergreen forests stretching north from the ocean . The forests are broken by a network of deep , cold lakes and rivers lined with glacial erratics and flowing to the sea . Glacial influences are preserved and evident today as eskers , rivers , kettle ponds , heaths , granite domes , and shear coastal cliffs .
Inland Downeast Maine is a landscape of evergreen forests stretching north from the ocean . The forests are broken by a network of deep , cold lakes and rivers lined with glacial erratics and flowing to the sea . The same sand and gravel eskers that support the wild blueberry also provides a deep aquifer feeding the waterways with clean , cold water . The rivers of Downeast Maine are the last American stronghold of wild Atlantic salmon . Alewives and shellfish that have fed the Wabanaki for millennia continue to be an important part of our seasonal fishery .
Located at the 45th parallel , halfway between the equator and the north pole , this region is the interface of southern and northern limits of many species of plants and animals and supports several rare and unusual species and plant communities . The convoluted coastline with its archipelago of islands , long bays and estuaries , coves lined with deep layers of silt and clay , and clean fresh waters provide critical feeding and resting habitat for migratory birds along the Atlantic Flyway .
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