Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Maine Department of Conservation
Box 939
Millinocket, Maine 04462
Phone: 695-3721
The waterway is a state-administered, 92-mile trail, featuring 80 campsites.

Androscoggin Land Trust
Box 3145
Auburn, Maine 04212
Phone: 782-2302
The trust works with the annual ''Source to the Sea'' canoe trek from Errol, N.H., to Fort Popham. Its goal is to improve access to the Androscoggin River.

Georges River Land Trust
David Getchell
RR 1 Box 3355
Appleton, Maine 04862
Phone: 785-4079
The trust is working on 40-mile land trail along St. George River from Appleton to Thomaston.

Kennebec Water Trails
Box 144
Skowhegan, Maine 04976
Phone: 635-2250
The group is preparing a canoeists' guidebook to the Kennebec River from Moosehead Lake to the sea.

Department of Conservation
Steve Spencer
Bureau of Parks and Lands
Station 22
Augusta, Maine 04333
Phone: 287-3061
Spencer has information about canoeing and kayaking on public lands. The bureau also manages 35 offshore islands.

Maine Island Trail Association
Box C
Rockland, Maine 04841
Phone: 596-6456
The association maintains a 325-mile coastal route from Portland to Machias, involving 80 islands.

National Park Service
Rivers and Trails Project
Burnham Martin and Julie Isbill
14 Maine St. Suite 210
Brunswick, Maine 04011
Phone: 725-5028
Through partnership with the Appalachian Mountain Club, the project works with groups interested in creating water trails.

Native Trails
Mike Krepner
Box 240
Waldoboro, Maine 04572
Phone: 832-5255
The group's goal is to identify, document and preserve old travel routes.

North American Water Trails Conference
David Getchell
RR 1 Box 3355
Appleton, Maine 04862
Phone: 785-4079
The conference publishes ''Modern Water Trails,'' a guide to creating and maintaining recreational waterways, and maintains a list of water trail groups in the United States and Canada.

Northern Forest Alliance
58 State St.
Montpelier, Vt. 05602
Phone: 802-223-5256
This coalition of conservation groups tries to preserve woodlands and forest heritage from New York to Maine.

Penobscot Riverkeepers 2000
Box 1460
Bucksport, Maine 04416
Jo Eaton
Phone: 827-0369 or 564-2248
The organization is identifying access points and historic places along the river and takes an expedition along Indian routes each spring.

St. Croix International Waterway Commission
Box 610
Calais, Maine 04619
Phone: 466-7550
This state-provincial agency works to protect and manage this river between Maine and New Brunswick. The group has canoe maps of the St. Croix River.

Other phone numbers
To obtain fire permits: Maine Forest Service, 207-738-2601.
To learn about the St. Croix River water levels: Georgia Pacific Corp., 207-427-3117.

Books: ''Above The Gravel Bar: The Indian canoe routes of Maine,'' a self-published book on native trails, by David Cook. Available for $10 from the author, RR2, Box 1300, Winthrop, Maine 04364.
''Hinckley Township: The history of Grand Lake Stream Plantation.'' Available for $17 from the Grand Lake Stream Historical Society, Box 52, Grand Lake Stream, Maine 04637.

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