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Title: Bureau of State Parks Watershed Education
Format: Workshop/Environmental Education Program
Audience: Students and teachers (grades 6-12)
Length: Varies (fee varies across state)
Contact: PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Bureau
of State Parks
Description: This watershed-based program promotes classroom and field
research, investigations and partnerships to produce environmentally literate
citizens
Title: Citizen's Handbook To Address Contaminated Coal Mine Drainage
Format: Book
Audience: Citizens and grassroots groups
Length: 105 pp
Contact: Environmental Protection Agency - Region III
Description: A guide for citizens who want to join with other watershed
stakeholders to do something about coal mine drainage from abandoned mines
Title: Clean Water in Your Watershed
Format: Book
Audience: Citizens
Length: 90 pp ($19.95)
Contact: EnviroScape®
Description: Information on designing and completing a watershed protection
or restoration project.
Title: Dennis Creek: A Working Partnership
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 17 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: How a creek is protected through cooperating organizations
Title: Enviroscapes® Make Your Own Watershed Kit
Format: Kit
Audience: Students and general
Length: 3-D model ($29.95)
Contact: Enviroscape®
Description: A fun, 3-D model of a watershed you create and paint.
Title: GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Know Your Watersheds, Watersheds
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various
environmental issues
Title: Keystone in the Cleanup
Format: Newsletter
Audience: Youth
Length: Varies
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Youth oriented publication featuring water quality articles,
stories, Jake the Otter
Title: Know Your Watershed Starter Kit
Format: Kit and Brochures
Audience: General
Length: Seven 20 pp guides and video ($18)
Contact: Conservation Technology Information Center
Description: Promotes understanding of watersheds and encourages voluntary
partnerships for natural resource concerns
Title: Life In A Watershed
Format: Video
Audience: General and teachers
Length: 16 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Enhances knowledge of the environment and how to protect
one's watershed
Title: Potential Funding Sources for Watershed Groups
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Watershed organizations, volunteers
Length: 3 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Listing of potential funding sources and references for
use by watershed groups
Title: Snapshots 2001 & 2002
Format: Publication
Audience: General
Length: 70 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Report and summary of findings from the Watershed Snapshot
events in 2001 and 2002 (Watershed Snapshot is a 10 day period each year where
citizens and groups evaluate water quality and related parameters on their favorite
streams and lakes across PA)
Title: Streamkeeper's Field Guide: Watershed Inventory and Stream Monitoring
Methods
Format: Book/Field Guide
Audience: Watershed groups, teachers
Length: 300 pp ($29.95)
Contact: Adopt-A-Stream Foundation
Description: The Streamkeeper's Field Guide provides comprehensive and
entertaining in watershed inventorying and stream monitoring techniques. Includes
protocols for monitoring physical, chemical and biological parameters, info.
on quality assurance, EPA guidelines and success stories from real Streamkeepers
Title: The Streamkeeper; starring "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
Format: Video
Audience: Teachers, students and community groups
Length: 25 minutes
Contact: Adopt-A-Stream Foundation, PA Association of Conservation Districts,
Inc.
Description: Video outlining the process of how to become a Streamkeeper,
discusses basic concepts of the hydrologic cycle
Title: Susquehanna River Basin: Everybody Lives In A Watershed
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Description: Provides information and a map about the Susquehanna River
Basin
Title: Susquehanna Watershed Education Program
Format: Field experience
Audience: Secondary students
Length: Variable
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Water quality studies on Susquehanna River tributaries including
canoe trips
Title: Taming Pennsylvania Waters
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: General
Length: 11 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: The Watershed Program; land treatment, water quality and
wildlife habitat reviewed
Title: Top Ten Tips for Watershed Organizations
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Watershed organizations, volunteers
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Advice gathered from various successful watershed groups,
organized into ten tips
Title: Watershed Effects of Biosolids Land Application: Literature Review
Format: Book
Audience: Watershed Organizations, biosolids managers
Length: 221 pp ($65 for WEF members, $85 for non-members)
Contact: Water Environment Federation
Description: A comprehensive review of biosolids research, dating all
the way back to the 1800s
Title: Watershed Health
Format: Materials
Audience: General
Length: Poster
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Actions to improve natural resources in watersheds, communities
or backyards; how individual actions affect neighbors in a watershed
Title: Watershed Management 2000 Conference Proceedings
Format: CD-Rom
Audience: Watershed Organizations
Length: CD, slides, audio, book/cd sets ($62.50 for WEF members, $80
for non-members
Contact: Water Environment Federation
Description: The latest information on implementing watershed planning,
protection, restoration and education. Real-life experiences and lessons are
outlined
Title: Watershed Management, A Community Process
Format: Puzzle
Audience: Students and general
Length: 550 pieces ($9.80)
Contact: EnviroScape®
Description: It contains beautiful illustrations and how each of us can
make a difference in preventing water pollution
Title: What Is A Watershed?
Format: Brochure
Audience: General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Natural Resource Conservation Service
Description: Color brochure that explains how a watershed works, the differences
among them and that everyone lives in a watershed