Water resources and your watershed

• Watershed Information Network (WIN)
• EPA's Surf Your Watershed
• Watershed Atlas
• Envirofacts
• Enviromapper
• Water Quality Standards
• Water Quality Criteria
• Black Creek Watershed Coalliton

Land use issues and how to protect water quality

• Center for Water and Watershed Studies
• USGS Current Perspectives
• Attend county Water Quality Coordinating Committee meetings (contact the county Soil and Water Conservation district); to find out about issues in your community.

Education/Information

• International "River of Words" Poetry and Art contest (for youth ages 5-19)
• Environmental Art and Poetry Gallery
• USGS
• Groundwater activities
• Environmental Inquiry-Watershed Links
• Center for environmental Information
• NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water
• Rochester Environmentalists
• Environmental Advocates of New York
• North American Association for Environmental Education

Ideas for funding educational efforts

• EPA's Environmental Education Grants Program
• Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
• Environmental Finance Program

Testing: what can be done locally to help preserve and protect your water resources.

• Become a volunteer water quality monitor. Attend a training Workshop or schedule a presenter to come to your school to learn the techniques for collecting quality data on your waterway.
• Biological Monitoring of Freshwaters
• Sea Grant nonindigenous species
• Bioassessment and Biocriteria

Equipment Suppliers

• AMRC Learning House
• Carolina Biological Supply
• Ward's Natural Science Establishment
• Deakin Outdoor equipment (formerly Forestry Products)
• Wildlife Supply Company
• CHEMetrics, Inc.
• Vernier LabPro

Preserving

• Non-point source pollution
• Alternatives to household chemical cleaners
• Storm drain stenciling
• U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service's Programs and Activities
• Low-impact Development Center Links
• National River Cleanup Week, May 10-17, sponsored by American Outdoors
• International Coastal Cleanup sponsored by the Center for Marine Conservation on the third Saturday of every September
• U.S. Department of Agriculture's Restoration Handbook
• National Wildlife Federation's site on backyard conservation projects.
• Schoolyard Habitats
• Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program
• Work with a DEC regional fisheries biologist to improve fish habitat or restock desirable species. Click for a list of Regional offices in New York State.