Resources: Watersheds

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Helpful Watersheds Web pages

• Watersheds Home
• Watershed Central
• Biological Indicators of Watershed Health
• Technical Tools for Watershed Management
• Watershed Approach
• Watershed Funding

Helpful Watersheds Documents/Guidance

• Getting in Step: Engaging and Involving Stakeholders in Your Watershed (PDF) (80 pp, 1.34MB)
• Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters (PDF) (400 pp, 13.64MB)
  (EPA 841-B-08-002, March 2008)
• Integrating Water And Waste Programs To Restore Watersheds (PDF) (197 pp, 8.17MB)
  (EPA 540-K-07-001, August 2007)
• EPA Watershed Training Opportunities (PDF) (33 pp, 629.74K)
  (EPA 841-B-06-001, February 2006)
• Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program (NEP) (PDF) (112 pp, 4.2MB)
  (EPA 842-B-05-003, February 2005)
• Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook (PDF) (120 pp, 1.44MB)
  (EPA 841-B-04-001, November 2004)
• Getting In Step: A Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns (PDF) (136 pp, 3.28MB)
  (EPA 841-B-03-002, December 2003)
• Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds: Status, Trends, and Initiatives in Watershed Management
  (EPA 840-R-00-001, June 2001)
• Watershed Success Stories: Applying the Principles and Spirit of the Clean Water Action Plan
  (EPA 800-R-00-003, September   2000)
• Watershed Analysis and Management (WAM) Guide for Tribes
  (EPA 841-B-00-008, September 2000)
• Watershed Approach Framework
  (EPA 840-S-96-001, June 1996)