Adopt-A-Stream Recommended Links
Water resources and your watershed
- EPA's Surf Your Watershed
- Envirofacts
- Water Quality Standards
- Water Quality Criteria
- Black Creek Watershed Coaliton
- Oatka Creek Watershed Coalition
Land use issues and how to protect water quality
- 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
- Center for Environmental Information
- NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water
- Rochester Environment
- Environmental Advocates of New York
- 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.
- Sea Grant nonindigenous species
- Bioassessment and Biocriteria
Equipment Suppliers
- Carolina Biological Supply
- Ward's Natural Science Establishment
- Wildlife Supply Company
- Vernier LabPro
Preserving
- Non-point source pollution
- 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
- 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.
