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MANUALS/BOOKS

Forest Community Research compiled thirteen case studies to form the book, "The Forest Communities, Community Forest: A Collection of Case Studies of Community Forestry." This book was created for the Seventh American Forest Congress Communities Committee. It is divided into three categories: investment in natural capital, process to practice and land stewardship. The book highlights issues affecting watersheds and forestry management. To receive a hardcopy of this book, please send $6 to Will Kay P.O. Box 11, Taylorsville, CA, 95983.

Heroic Tales of Wetland Restoration - Published by the Wetlands Conservancy, this book tells of 12 rural landowners who changed their farming practices to reclaim wetlands, streams and rivers. More than 75 percent of wetlands in the lower 48 states are privately owned, making landowner stewardship a critical part of a wetland conservation strategy. Sections of the book include:
-heroic tales
-land conservation options
-grant and technical assistance
-governmental technical assistance
-non-governmental technical assistance
This 75-page book is available through the Wetlands Conservancy for $15.00 plus shipping. Call 503/691-1394 or email maryanne@wetlandsconservancy.org or check your local bookstores for availability.

The Center for Watershed Protection provides objective and scientifically sound information on effective techniques to protect and restore urban watersheds. They produce several publications:

The Practice of Watershed Protection: Techniques for Protecting and Restoring Urban Watersheds -- At $80, 150 articles are included on all aspects of watershed protection. Drawn from past issues of Watershed Protection Techniques as well as a wealth of other Center papers and reports, this 800-page book is organized around the eight tools of watershed protection, indexed for easy reference, and introduced by new material from Tom Schueler.

Urban Stream Restoration Practices: An Initial Assessment -- This $20 publication assesses the performance of 24 different urban stream restoration practices from sites around the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-west and provides recommendations for improving their application in a variety of urban stream environments.

National Pollutant Removal Performance Database - 2000 - 2nd Edition -- This edition modifies, clarifies, and expands upon the original National Database of BMP Pollutant Removal Performance. Summaries of more than 135 urban pollutant removal monitoring studies are included. The cost is $25. To order visit the website above, email dlb@cwp.org, or call 410/461-8323.

Biology and Management of Noxious Rangeland Weeds -- Edited in 1999 by Roger Sheley and Janet Petroff, this book provides a review of weed management in light of current knowledge of rangeland ecology and management. Twenty-nine of the most serious weeds in the West are highlighted. Weed identification, origin, history and distribution, invasion potentials, biology and ecology, and specific management options including integrated weed management are discussed. Full-color photographs and distribution maps are included. To order the $32.95 resource book, visit the website link above, email osu.press@orst.edu, or call Oregon University Press at 1-800-426-3797.

Protecting Local Wetlands: A Toolbox for Your Community -- Released by Save San Francisco Bay Association, this handbook helps government officials, public agency and nonprofit staff, community activists, and landowners protect and restore their local wetlands. Thorough attention is given to federal and state regulation. To order your free copy of this 142 page handbook visit the website above, email savebay@savesfbay.org, or call 510/452-9261.

Roadside Use of Native Plants -- Edited by Bonnie Harper-Lore and Maggie Wilson, this unique handbook provides information on how to make site-specific decisions on the types of native plants for roadsides and adjacent lands. Includes principles of ecological restoration and management from leading experts, maps, and native vegetation lists. Order online for $25 plus shipping from the link above, or call 800/828-1302.

River Quality: Dynamics and Restoration -- Written by Antonnius Laenen and David Dunnette in 1997, learn the physical, chemical, and biological dynamics of a river system and various monitoring programs and remedial measures that can restore a river's health. Includes a case study of the Willamette River in Oregon. $139.95 plus shipping, order online at CRCPress, call 800/272-7737, or email orders@crcpress.com.

California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual -- Available in PDF format from the California Department of Fish & Game, this 495 page manual describes salmon and steelhead restoration efforts in California, the watershed assessment process, habitat inventory, fish sampling methods, data interpretation, as well as project planning, implementation, and evaluation. For a free hard copy send $5 for shipping to California Department of Fish & Game, Fiscal Section/Control Accounts, 1416 Ninth St., Sacramento, CA 95814, or call 916/327-8842.

A Citizen's Streambank Restoration Handbook -- This 171 page guide to restoring eroding streambanks using vegetation and flexible systems, features installation guidelines, sample budgets, case studies and choosing the best restoration solution tips. $20 plus $5 shipping. To order contact Save Our Streams Program at 800/284-4952, visit the website above, or email sos@iwla.org.

Protecting and Restoring Watersheds: A Tribal Approach to Salmon Recovery -- A free 100 page handbook explaining the Columbia River treaty tribes' strategic approach to watershed restoration outlining how good science, good sense, and good partnerships produce good results. Includes watershed assessment, watershed protection, active and passive restoration, and monitoring strategies consistent with tribal philosophy. Intended for landowners, watershed organizations, and other resource conservationists, this resource utilizes sound science and easy-to-understand language. Extensive resource section includes web site links, bibliographies, and organization contact information to start on-the-ground projects. For a copy, contact: Catriona Black in the Watershed Department at Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission 503/238-0667, or email blac@critfc.org.

Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices -- Developed by an interdisciplinary team of stream and watershed management specialists, hydrologists, engineers and other EPA, federal agency, and private group representatives. A printed document is available for $71, a CD-ROM version sells for $60. To order, visit the website above.

How to Hold Up Banks: Using All the Assets -- An informative, well-illustrated booklet on controlling stream erosion. Produced by the Boquet River Association (BRASS), a small nonprofit group with extensive experience in stream monitoring and restoration, the book helps citizen groups tap community resources and find success with low-cost techniques. Techniques covered include streambank shaping; grass, seedling, and live posts planting; imbeddedness surveys; log cribbing and stone riprap installation. To order send $8 to BRASS, c/o Essex County Government Center, Box 217, Elizabethtown, NY 12932, or call 518/873-3688.

Saving A Stream -- A Practical Guide For Coldwater Habitat Projects -- From Trout Unlimited, 1500 Wilson Blvd., Suite 310, Arlington, VA 22209-2404. Send $6.50 or call 888/891-2634 for VISA or Mastercard orders (Item #RES445). A folded, 2-sided educational poster of endangered trout and salmon of North America for a junior high-adult audiences (poster item #RES200) is also available for $6.95.

A Guide To Placing Wood In Streams -- Published May 1995 by Oregon Department of Forestry Forest Practices Section 2600 State Street Salem, OR 97310 and the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife Habitat Conservation Division PO Box 59 Portland, OR 97207. 

Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices -- (1997. Williams, Wood, and Dombeck. 561 pp.) Excellent manual covering ecological principles, partnership building, restoration strategies, and case studies. $5.50 for first copy, $2.00 each additional. To view table of contents or order, visit the website above, or call 678/366/1411.

Fish Passage Design at Road Culverts -- A Design Manual for Fish Passage at Road Crossings. Comprehensive manual detailing the design of manual permanent, new, retrofit, or replacement road crossing culverts without harmful impact to salmonid migration. Intended for a private landowner or engineer in the process of designing a culvert. To view, visit the website above.

ARTICLES

The San Francisquito Watershed Council is pleased to announce the release of a new study funded by the California Department of Fish and Game entitled "Adult Steelhead Passage in the Bear Creek Watershed". The study is the basis for the continuation of fish passage work to improve migration within the San Francisquito watershed. It is available online or for further information email susanf@acterra.org or call (650) 962-9876 x305.

Pringle Creek Watershed Enhancement by John Taylor, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Published in December 15, 2000 issue of Oregon Insider, Issue #262. Learn more about non-point source (NPS) pollution and the benefits of a Watershed Enhancement Team (WET) pledge program.

NEWSLETTERS

Nonpoint Source News-Notes -- Newsletter sponsored by EPA and produced by Terrene Institute. Bulletin containing content on the condition, control, ecological management, and watershed restoration related to non-point source pollution. To subscribe visit the website above.

Restoration-- A Newsletter About Salmon, Coastal Watershed, and People -- Produced by Oregon Sea Grant. Provides objective information about the scientific, economic, political, and social issues surrounding salmon and watershed health. To subscribe write: Oregon Sea Grant Communications, OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331-2131, or visit the website above.

SoundWaves -- Bi-monthly newsletter from Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team. Contact P.O. Box 40900, Olympia, WA 98504-0900, 360-407-7300, 800/54-SOUND, or subscribe on-line at the website above.

GUIDES

Wetlands Management Handbook written by Steven W. Sprecher and Carolyn B. Schneider for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is intended to help land managers better fulfill their development and implementation obligations. The handbook covers wetlands functions and values, laws affecting wetlands management, wetlands classification systems, delineations, procedures, and permits, and wetlands mitigation, evaluation, and restoration. The PDF document is available at the link above.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, has recently posted several technical papers resulting from the Pacific Northwest Temperature Criteria Guidance Project. Learn more about the project and find PDF reports at the website above.

Know Your Natives-Pictorial Guide to California Native Grasses -- A detailed guide of 20 California native grass species with planting instructions. Color photographs of each stage of the species including seed, seed head, seedling, and as a mature plant. Also includes seeding rate calculations to determine amount of seed needed for restoration projects. Total cost is $15.00. To order call Yolo County RCD at 530/662-2037, ext 3.

A Review of the Scientific Literature on Riparian Buffer Width, Extent, and Vegetation and the Guidebook for Developing Local Riparian Buffer Ordinances by Seth Wenger are both excellent riparian buffers resources in PDF format.

Restoring Streams in Cities -- Ann Riley provides an interdisciplinary approach to repairing existing ecological damage utilizing practical alternatives including prevention. Topics covered include land-use planning, site design, watershed restoration methods, and relevant components of stream restoration projects. To order online visit the link above, or call 800/828-1302.

Protecting Coastal and Wetland Resources: A Guide For Local Governments -- Published April 1992 by EPA (EPA 842-R-92-002). Free from NCEPI, 11029 Kenwood Rd., Bldg. 5 Cincinnati, OH 45242, fax 513-489-8695. 

The Oregon Wetlands Conservation Guide -- Voluntary Wetlands Stewardship Options for Oregon's Private Landowners - Oregon Division of State Lands 775 Summer St. NE Salem, OR 97310 (503)-378-3805. 

Save Our Streams -- Packet of brochures and handbooks from the Izaak Walton League of America for watershed organizations and citizens interested in restoration and conservation of habitat. Includes a layperson’s guide to macroinvertebrates, resource lists, how to work with the media, related school projects, and more. Packet cost is $8.00. To order, visit the website above or call 301/548-0150.

VIDEOS

Plant it right: Restoring Our Streams is a 17-minute video focusing on proper planting techniques, hole preparation, tools safety and maintenance requirements. To order online, visit the website above or contact the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Bulletins Office at (800) 723-1763 and ask for Plant it Right: Restoring Our Streams; VT00013. The video is also available for viewing in its entirety at the website above.

California's Western Shasta Resource Conservation District released a DVD featuring a stream restoration project on Clear Creek in Shasta County. The 10-minute production highlights the renewal of the Lower Clear Creek Watershed through salmon spawning and rearing habitat restoration. It also provides an overview of this restoration project and will be used to attract and inform potential sponsors for the final phases of the project. For a copy email robert.bailey@ca.usda.gov or call (530) 246-5252.

Life on the Edge: Improving Riparian Function -- 12 minute video from Oregon State University Extension Service. Documents the transitional riparian zone between a water's edge and uplands, and how this area provides food and cover for fish and wildlife, controls erosion, filters runoff, and produces the ingredients for fish habitat and stream channel stability. Video covers various land-use practices impact to riparian areas, and the techniques landowners, volunteers, and professional resource managers use to improve and protect riparian function. To order email puborders@orst.edu, or send your request, check or money order (VTP 033, costs $19.95, including shipping) payable to Oregon State University to: Publication Orders, Extension & Station Communications, Oregon State University, 422 Kerr Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331-2119.

Urban Stream Restoration: A Video Tour of the Ecological Restoration Techniques with Ann Riley -- Video tour of six urban stream restoration sites. Background information on how the projects were funded and organized, and the history and principles of restoration. Ann Riley is a nationally known stream restoration professional and Executive Director of the Waterways Restoration Institute in Berkeley, California. 61 minutes. $39.99 plus tax and shipping. To order, call Nolte Media at 707/579-3902.

Restoring America's Streams -- Video from the Save Our Streams Program of the Izaak Walton League of America, and companion to A Citizen's Streambank Restoration Handbook. 28-minute video depicts bioengineering techniques for restoring degraded streambanks. Covers structural methods such as placing log and stump placement, and vegetative methods including planting willows and dogwood. Both video and handbook stress a watershed approach to designing stream restoration projects. Total cost of video is $24, handbook $22. For more information, call 800/BUG-IWLA or click here to view Save Our Stream's on-line catalog.

A PLACE TO COME HOME TO--Recovering Salmon Habitat In The West, an award winning 14 minute video from the Natural Resource Conservation Service. Free. Concentrates on the role of watershed groups and cooperative efforts at restoring salmon habitat. Easiest way to obtain a video is to contact the nearest NRCS field office. If you can't get it from that office contact: CA- John Lowrie or Sammy Moore, NRCS 2121-C Second St., Suite 102, Davis, CA 95616-5475; OR-NRCS Salmon Team Office, 101 SW Main St., Suite 1700, Portland, OR 97204-3225; WA-NRCS, Rockport Tower 2, West 316 Boone, Suite 450, Spokane, WA 99201-2348. 

THE RETURN OF THE SALMON--Restoring The Fish To Rivers and Watersheds. This excellent 30 minute video produced by Oregon Sea Grant video provides background to what watersheds are, salmon habitat needs, the impacts on the region from the loss of the salmon, provides a historic background to habitat problems and deals with solutions as being addressed by watershed groups. Send check for $30 to Sea Grant Communications, ADS 402, OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331 or order by phone 1-800-375-9360. A slightly shorter broadcast version is available by contacting Joe Cone, 503-737-0756 (talk to your local cable tv access station to see if you can get this aired). (Consider leaving a copy at your local video store too--for free check-out). 

Caring for the Green Zone, written for those people who can most effectively influence rangelands & riparian areas with their management- ranchers & livestock operators. The booklet "Caring for the Green Zone" $2 Canadian and a video "Along the Water's Edge" $8 Canadian may be obtained by contacting: Lorne Fitch at Alberta Fish & Wildlife YPM Place 530- 8th St. South, Bag 3014 Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J2J8. Phone (403)381-5281 or Fax: (403)381-5723. 

WEB RESOURCES

Every Last Drop Counts, sponsored by Oregon State University (OSU), provides water conservation advice for use in the home, garden, on the farm or the ranch. OSU compiled useful tips for anyone interested in becoming more water conservation savvy and related publications are also available on a range of topics; some at no charge, others for a nominal fee. To view the publication list, visit the website above and to order; download an application also from this site.

The Pacific Watershed Institute in Winthrop, WA, the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, the National Forest Foundation and the Methow Valley Ranger District recently completed a new website detailing habitat restoration in the Methow Valley. The site has an extensive list of completed fish and wildlife habitat restoration projects in the area and maps with many project locations. It is a great reference for anyone wanting to learn more about restoration in general and more specifically, in the Methow Valley.

Oregon Water Trust -- private, non-profit group that acquires consumptive water right and converts them to instream water rights as a way of augmenting flows on streams and tributaries important for salmon and steelhead.

The Watershed Institute is a direct action, community-based coalition of researchers, restoration ecolotists, educators, students, planners, and area voluteers dedicated to restoring the watersheds of the Monterey Bay region. The site includes information on restoration planning, implementation, and monitoring.

OTHER

Fish Passage Short Course consists of a number of PowerPoint presentations used at two-day workshops conducted at various locations around Oregon in the summer of 2000. For the Sake of the Salmon and a number of other agencies and organizations co-sponsored the workshops. This short-course was designed to bring into focus the relationship between fish biology, regulations, evaluating and prioritizing fish passage problems, and culvert design. A full-day of classroom learning was followed by a field day to help participants understand the need for proper culvert design and installation. These slide-shows cover information presented by speakers at the workshop.

FishXing 2.0 on CD-ROM and software is an interactive software package that successfully models hydraulic conditions throughout the culvert over a wide range of flows for numerous culvert shapes and sizes. The model incorporates fisheries inputs including fish species, size, and swimming abilities. Included with FishXing 2.0 on CD-ROM is a multimedia ‘learning system’ that provides audio-visual lectures about fish passage assessment, a great series of videos of fish passage situations, and other resources. The software, including the help files but not the multimedia presentations, can be downloaded from the link above. You can request the CD-ROM version of FishXing from the USDA-Forest Service, San Dimas Technology and Development Center, 444 East Bonita Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773; Phone: (909) 599-1267.

California Watershed Projects Inventory is organized by Division of Environmental Studies at U.C.Davis. This database contains extensive listings of projects, contacts, and associated data.