Links

Useful Websites

Red Lodge Clearinghouse

5280 Magazine, April 2010 Article: Dry Times

Project WET: Educational Resources

EPA Healthy Watersheds

EPA Releases Recovery Potential Screening Website to Assist Restoration Planners
EPA announces the release of a new technical assistance tool for state and watershed-level surface water quality protection and restoration programs: the Recovery Potential Screening website (www.epa.gov/recoverypotential/).  Recovery Potential Screening is a flexible approach for comparing relative differences in restorability among impaired waters across a state, watershed or other area.  The website provides step-by-step screening directions, restorability indicators and literature, and tools for scoring and displaying results.

Informative Websites for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds:

Drinking Water SRF overview

How the Drinking Water SRF can be used for water conservation and efficiency.

Conservation Maven
This website is an online hub that profiles the latest groundbreaking conservation studies, field news, books and funding opportunities.

USFS Water Web Resources
The Forest Service has designated water as a top priority and is working to build awareness of the forest-to-faucet link through web-based public education.

Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council
The Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council serves as a statewide collaborative body, open to all, to help achieve effective goal identification, data collection, data analysis, data retrieval, and reporting/dissemination of water quality data, and monitoring information.

Wildlands CPR
Wildlands CPR revives and protects wild places by promoting watershed restoration through road removal, preventing new wildland road construction and stopping off-road vehicle abuse.

Good Samaritan: Educating the Public About the Imperative for Legislation to Support Private Mine Reclamation Efforts
This website is designed to inform and educate people about a legal issue that severely hampers mine remediation and reclamation at inactive and abandoned mine sites. Visit the website.

EPA's website on green infrastructure .

Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority

Watershed Central
This website is designed to provide state, local, and voluntary watershed management entities with a variety of tools and information that will aid in successful watershed management.

Western Hardrock Watershed Team
WHWT is a coalition of community/watershed improvement groups, confronting the challenges that remain from historic mining in the West.