![]() This forest type, also known as the Saint John River Valley Hardwood Forest, once spread of much of the area and has been reduced to less than one percent of the land area because of human activities. Plants rare for the province include wild ginger, black raspberry, wild coffee, maidenhair fern, showy orchis and others. This area is the only place in Atlantic Canada where Appalachian Hardwood Forest is found. Other tributaries in this section include the Meduxnekeag River. The middle section runs from the confluence of the Aroostook and Tobique rivers, flowing southeast to Mactaquac Dam. The headwaters are in the New England/Acadian forests of Maine and Quebec, including the Southwest, Northwest, and Baker branches, and the Allagash River flowing into New Brunswick at Edmundston where it is joined by the Madawaska River. The Maliseet call it the Wolastoq, meaning bountiful and good and seek to restore this name. ![]() Many waterways in the system retain their original pre-European names. Samuel de Champlain visited the mouth of the river on the feast day of John the Baptist in 1604 and renamed it the Rivière Saint-Jean, but that did not last. ![]()
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