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Northwest Stream Center
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Everett, WA 98208-6353
Tel: 425-316-8592
Fax: 425-3381423
Email:
aasf@streamkeeper.org
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EDUCATION
Environmental
Education Link
A resource for students, teachers and
professionals that support K-12 environmental education.
Activities for students and teachers, as well as
conference and professional development information.
Environmental Education for Kids,
Students and Teachers
EPA's environmental education page from
kids clubs to high school activities to free curricula.
Kids for Puget Sound
Kids can enjoy stories from other students
around Puget Sound. Try your hand at the Animal Quiz.
Descriptions of different Puget Sound habitats and why
they are important. Learn about the salmon life cycle.
North
Cascades Institute
North Cascades Institute is a nonprofit
educational organization dedicated to increasing
understanding and appreciation of the natural and
cultural landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle Environmental Education
This site is designed to act as a
clearinghouse for teachers and students to obtain local
environmental education classroom and field trip
opportunities, curriculum ideas and resources as well as
links to other environmental education pages on the
Internet.
Technical Assistance Register
Searchable database of the California
Education and Environmental Roundtable to communicate
with other educators who use environmental education to
integrate curricula in K-12 education.
Washington
Office of Environmental Education
Washington State Office of Superintendent
of Public Instruction. Resources, links for environmental
educators.
Watershed Academy
Find information on training
opportunities, information transfer documents and
internet training modules.
Homewaters Project
An educational nonprofit
organization located in Seattle, WA. created to engage
and inform citizens by connecting people to nature and
each other in the context of their home communities.
RESTORATION
Bioengineeering
Contains information and bibliography
about bioengineering.
Citizen's Guide to Riparian Restoration
EPA Restoration Website
Includes information on
projects from around the country.
National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Habitat Restoration
River Corridors and Wetlands Restoration
Receive or contribute information on
projects, programs, organizations involved in river
corridor and wetland restoration.
Stream Corridor Restoration Handbook
WATER,
WATERSHEDS, WATER QUALITY
Environmental Indicators
Nationwide data from the US EPA uses a set
of 18 indicators to assess health of nation's waters.
EPA's Index of Watershed Indicators
(IWI)
EPA’s WaterNews
National Drinking Water Clearinghouse
National Rural Water Association
Non-Point Source Pollution
Find the answers to your questions concerning non-point
source pollution (NPS) Learn about “Splash!” a
wonderful way to interactively teach both kids and adults
how to reduce runoff pollution.
StreamNet
Cooperative venture of region's fish and wildlife
agencies and tribes. Provides baseline data for decision
makers on anadromous and resident fish, aquatic habitat,
resource protection, restoration bibliography. Search by
state, county, USGS cataloguing unit, drainage basin,
stream name.
University of Washington Area Stream Temperature Survey
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Historic and current data on water, geology, biology and
mapping
USGS Washington Current Streamflow
Conditions
The latest stream and river flow and temperature
information from around the State of Washington. Includes
maps.
Water Environment Federation
The Official web site of the Water Environment
Federation.
Water in the West: The Challenge for the
Next Century
Water
Quality Data - US Geological Survey
Water What-Ifs
Site for teachers and students to encourage inquiry and
collaboration on water quality. With lesson plans and
other information.
Watershed Indicators
Learn whether our rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and
coastal areas are “well” or “ailing”.
find out what activities on the surrounding land affect
our waters and place them risk.
RESOURCE
PROTECTION
Adopt
Your Watershed US EPA
Celebrating 25 years of Clean Water Act by
encouraging people to get involved in protecting streams.
Learn about organizations active in your watershed! Over
4,000 watershed groups listed. Also includes tools and
resources to help new groups get started.
For the Sake of Salmon
For the Sake of the Salmon is breaking new ground in the
effort to save salmon in the Pacific Region.
Global
Water Partnership Forum
Information exchange between NGOs,
international agencies, research institutes, academia,
governments, individuals on water management policy for
sustainability.
Lessons
Learned
Identify the top water lessons learned in protecting our
lakes, rivers, streams, oceans and estuaries using a
watershed approach.
The
Izaak Walton League of America - Save Our Salmon (SOS)
Dichotomous species keys, equipment,
complete instructions on how to collect, identify and
analyze benthic macroinvertebrates.
Locate Your Watershed
US Environmental Protection Agency, cartology and map
resource.
Nationwide
Rivers Inventory
The National Park Service has compiled and maintains the
Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI), a register of over
3,000 river segments that potentially qualify as national
wild, scenic or recreational rivers. A great source of
information for ecologists seeking data on plant and
animal species, for resource managers needing a reference
to help monitor activities on their rivers, for states
conducting river assessments and for recreationalists
seeking a listing of undisturbed river segments.
Native Fish Society
This organization, whose objectives are to protect and
restore native fish populations, provides an extensive
library of information on hatcheries, salmon biology, and
dams, as well as discussion and position papers on
recovery plans, policy issues, etc. and links to other
fish resources and organizations.
Northwest Aquatic Information Network
Information on fish, anadromous fish distribution maps,
library resources, fish and wildlife program
descriptions.
Northwest
Indian Fisheries Commission
Indian tribes working for tomorrow’s fish today.
REP
America
Republicans who share a deep concern for the
environment. "We know that a healthy economy
is the basis for our national prosperity. We insist
that healthy economy can and must be achieved without
doing harm to our environment."
People
for Puget Sound
People for Puget Sound is a non-profit citizens group
dedicated to educating and involving people in protecting
and restoring the land and waters of Puget Sound and the
Northwest Straits.
Pacific
Streamkeepers Federation
A nonprofit Society Helping
Streamkeepers take action through support, education, and
building partnerships throughout British Columbia.
Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
The Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team’s on-line
resource for protecting water quality and resources.
River Network
Surf Your Watershed US EPA
Site provides multi-level water resource information.
Enter your zip code and learn the facts about your
watershed and ways you can get involved.
Sustainable Fisheries Foundation
The Sustainable Fisheries Foundation is a nonprofit
research and education organization dedicated to the
protection, enhancement, and wise use of fisheries
resources in the Pacific Northwest.
US
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10
Serving the States of Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington
Wild Trout Society
Scottish stream preservation group.
OCEANS, LAKES, ESTUARIES AND WETLANDS
British Columbia Intertidal Stewardship
Handbook
Estuary
Net
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve
Hood Canal Wetlands and Watershed
Project
International Year of the Oceans - NOAA
Minnesota Lakes Association
Annotated bibliography of 600 lake management and
planning resources, plus links to other websites.
SeaWeb
Washington Department of Ecology
Shorelands and Wetlands
Wetland
Restoration US EPA
Visit the River Corridor and Wetland Restoration page to
find wetland restoration activities in your watershed.
MONITORING
Ecology's Biological Monitoring Program
How monitoring is being used by DOE to characterize water
quality in different bioregions.
EPA's Volunteer Monitoring Homepage
Methods and tools to monitor, assess and report on the
health of America's water resources.
Kentucky Water Watch
Lists volunteer monitoring programs around the country,
reports of volunteer groups' monitoring results
Monitoring Resources and Contacts
Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
Monitoring
US EPA
Learn about tools to monitor, assess, and report on the
health of America’s water resources and software and
automated information systems to manage monitoring data.
Northwest Biological Assessment
Workgroup
Encourages and facilitates use of benthic
macroinvertebrates and fish assemblages in the assessment
of the condition of water resources
San Luis Obispo Creek Watershed
Recent monitoring data. Background information
on monitoring, water quality, current reports. A
well-organized volunteer group with an excellent web
page.
STORET
EPA water quality database for collection, management and
sharing of water quality data. For federal agencies,
states, tribes, local governments, academic groups and
citizen volunteers. This database is free to users, easy
to use and supported and maintained by the EPA. Menu
access and browse capability, supports storage of quality
assurance and quality control information and provides a
wide range of standard output formats (e.g. dBase, Lotus,
and ASCII). It allows users to store chemical data,
biological community information, sediment toxicity
information, and aquatic habitat evaluations. It also
supports GIS.
The Volunteer Monitor
The National
Newsletter of Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring.
Xerces Society
Public education on invertebrates and biological
monitoring
Ask Dr. Fish
Site provides incredible information and links to other
sites all about salmon and other fish species. Studies,
protocols, teacher resources.
Columbia Basin Research
Salmon Page
Riverdale Elementary
Salmonweb
Information and database for volunteer monitoring using
Index of Biologic Integrity (IBI).
Tidepool Salmon Page
Washington
State Department of Fish and Wildlife Priority Habitats
and Species (PHS) Database
Database contains list of PHS's, mapped locations at
1:24,000 scale and management recommendations for PHS's/
Sensitive fish and wildlife data.
Watch Over Washington (WOW)
The page for volunteer monitors.
Created under the auspices of the Washington Department
of Ecology, the WO page provides, among other things, a
calendar of events and workshops around the state,
resources for volunteer monitors, a matrix defining the
four levels of Quality Data, which includes links to
303(d) list of impaired and threatened waters that don't
meet state water quality standards, as well as links to
the 305(b) report, which shows whether water bodies
support beneficial uses, such as swimming or fishing and
whether they are impaired. Viewers can enter their own
information about events, as well as locate other
monitors with an online, searchable database roster.
ESA
ESA - Dealing with the Impact
Helps local governments by providing a
directory of laws, regulations, regulatory agencies,
salmon habits and habitats, notice of meetings and
workshops, etc.
Endangered
Species Act
The actual document
Governor's Salmon Recovery Office
King County ESA Home Page
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
The NMFS page provides exhaustive documentation of
ongoing discussion and events surrounding the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) listing of Pacific Chinook Salmon and
other fish. Chronologically organized discussions of 4(d)
rule process, press releases, maps, fish distribution.
Tri-County
Salmon Information Center Web Site
Comprehensive source of information of information on
salmon recovery, with listing of latest news, public
meetings and activities, salmon recovery plans. Hosted by
the Seattle Aquarium and supported by King County, City
of Seattle and the Tri-County Committee.
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