Wetlands and Stream Conservation

Electronic Resources Accessible from DOI Locations Only

EBSCO Online

Includes:

  • GreenFILE

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Includes:

  • Water: Science and Issues (found in the Environment section)
  • The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation (found in the Science section)
  • Pollution A to Z (found in the Environment section)
  • Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
  • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

JSTOR

Includes:

  • Life Sciences Collection
  • Ecology & Botany Collection
  • Biological Sciences Collection

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

News
 

  • Endangered Species and Wetlands Report
    Covers the Endangered Species Act, wetlands and takings: implementation of the ESA by the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ management of the Clean Water Act Section 404 regulatory program, and the interpretation of those laws by the federal courts.
     

Conservation and Restoration Projects Throughout the United States
 

  • Bureau of Reclamation River Restoration Programs: A Summary of 16 Programs and Shared Institutional Challenges
    Prepared for River Restoration: Exploring Institutional Challenges and Opportunities, September 14 & 15, 2011, Albuquerque, New Mexico. A conference hosted by the Bureau of Reclamation and The Utton Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law

  • Chesapeake Bay Program
    The Chesapeake Bay was the nation's first estuary targeted by Congress for restoration and protection. Since the 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay Program's partners have signed several agreements to reduce pollution and restore the Bay.

  • Elwha River Restoration
    Webcams and information about the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, which took place in Fall 2011, west of Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Provided by Olympic National Park, National Park Service.

  • Everglades Digital Library
    A comprehensive portal to high-quality Internet resources related to the south Florida environment, including online texts, articles, reports, photographs, maps, datasets, educational materials, and historical records, as well as links to organizational web sites and agency home pages. These materials come from libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and others.

  • KlamathRestoration.gov
    This is the official website of the Department of the Interior, and other federal and state agencies that are involved in carrying out obligations set forth in the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement, including the Secretarial Determination on Klamath River dams.

  • LaCoast.gov
    Covers restoration of Louisiana coastal wetlands through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act.

  • SalmonRecovery.gov
    The website of the Federal Caucus, a group of ten federal agencies operating in the Columbia River Basin that have natural resource responsibilities related to the Endangeed Species Act. They organize, and coordinate the federal fish recovery and water quality efforts in order to improve the Columbia River Basin aquatic ecosystem, and coordinate execution of federal trust and treaty responsibilities to Basin Native American tribes.

  • Western Waters Digital Library
    Contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins.

 

U.S. Government Organizations
 

North American Organizations
 

International Organizations
 

  • Wetlands International
    Wetlands International is the only global non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands.

 

Other Resources
 

  • FracFocus 2.0
    Established in 2011, FracFocus is the "national hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosure registry." It is managed by the Groundwater Protection Council, a nonprofit group of state groundwater regulatory agencies, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, an agency made up of governors of oil- and gas-producing states.

  • Imperiled Freshwater Organisms of North America
    Provides access to maps and lists of imperiled freshwater organisms of North America as determined by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) Endangered Species Committee (ESC). One can find lists of animals by freshwater ecoregion, by state or province boundary, and plot distributions of these same creatures by ecoregions or political boundaries.

  • National Wetland Plant List
    A national effort led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to update the North American Digital Flora: National Wetland Plant List (NWPL). The NWPL is used extensively in wetland delineation, wetland restoration and research, and the development of compensatory mitigation goals, as well as in providing general botanical information about wetland plants. It covers all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Caribbean and Pacific islands that are considered to be territories of the U.S.

    Updating the NWPL has been a cooperative effort of the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, The Biota of North America, states, Indian Nations, the academic community, and the scientific portion of the public.

  • Polluted Runoff: Nonpoint Source Pollution
    Provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Stream Restoration Information
    The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has collected links to documents that describe current best practices, including the Federal Stream Corridor Restoration Handbook and the Stream Restoration Design handbook.