Links to Other Web Resources
American Rivers
"American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy natural rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish, and wildlife.
We deliver innovative solutions to improve river health; raise awareness among decision-makers; serve and mobilize the river conservation movement; and are collaborating with our partners to develop a national "river agenda," which will create a unified vision for improving river health across the country."
- from the American Rivers 'What We Do, Where We Work' web page www.americanrivers.org/whatwedo/
Aquatic Network
"The Aquatic Network provides information about living resources and technology relating to marine and freshwater environments. The Aquatic Network's mission is to:
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Promote sustainable use of aquatic resources
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Serve as a clearinghouse for information relating to aquatic environments
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Explore the use of the Internet and other new technologies to foster global communication and networking
The Aquatic Network includes a diverse collection of services, databases, news, editorials, art forms, advertisements, and products."
- from the Aquatic Network 'About the Aquatic Network' web page www.aquanet.com/about.htm
River Network
"River Network's Mission is to help people understand, protect and restore rivers and their watersheds.
River Network was founded in 1988 with the conviction that the solutions to river degradation are primarily local and must be created by citizen action watershed by watershed. While working for the Trust for Public Land in New Mexico, Phil Wallin led the campaign to protect the Rio Chama from a Corps of Engineers project. He felt that nonprofit river groups suffered because there was nowhere to turn for help in starting up their organization.
The original concept of River Network was to provide support to the hundreds of grassroots organizations (river guardians) across the country that are working to conserve their local rivers. Our tenet was that a corps of circuit riders could help river guardians get campaigns under way to conserve their local streams. The River Conservancy, our land acquisition program was envisioned as a powerful tool for conserving rivers that could also generate revenues for River Network."
- from the River Network 'About River Network' web page www.rivernetwork.org/aboutrn/abomis.cfm
USGS Water Resources of North Carolina
"The North Carolina District of the U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information to describe and understand water resources issues of interest to people of North Carolina and the nation. We accomplish this through data collection and dissemination, hydrologic investigations, and water-resources research."
- from the USGS Water Resources of North Carolina 'USGS Mission' web page nc.water.usgs.gov/info/mission.html