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National Governmental Agencies 

 
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United States Department of Agriculture
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State Agencies

 
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Department of Food and Agriculture
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Other State Programs
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Educational Programs
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Educational Resources
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Water Science for Schools
Minnesota Division of Natural Resources
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National Extension Water Outreach Education
USGS Water Cycle
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Educating Young People About Water
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)
Water Recycling in Schools  

For Kids
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Robo-cow: Water Quality Protection
Aqua Venturer: Water Timeline
Water Science for Schools
Water Education Foundation
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Drinking Water Information
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Public Citizen's Water for All  

Community Services and Programs
Cache Valley Clean Team
Surf Your Watershed
BLM Vernal Field Office
Water Drop Patch Program for Girl Scouts
Clean Water Action  

Other Interesting Sites
Bear River Watershed Information System
Little Bear River Conservation Effectiveness Assessment Project
Bear River Water Quality Task Force
Stormwater Authority
American Rivers
River Network
Trout Unlimited
H2Ouse
Utah Native Plants
Friends of the Great Salt Lake
North American Lake Management Society
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EPA Targeted Watershed Draft Report, updated 11-11-08
8.0 APPENDICES
8.1 The Bear River Watershed Information System
8.2. Technical Memo: Integration of the Water Quality Modeling Results into the Watershed Information System
8.3  Watershed Modeling for Water Quality Trading
8.4 Assessing the Potential for Water Quality Trading in the Bear River watershed:
8.4A Assessing the Potential for Water Quality Trading in the Bear River watershed by Jason R. Whitehead
8.4B Survey of Effluent Managers
8.5 Estimates of Phosphorus Abatement Costs
8.6 Cooperative Surplus Sharing
8.7 Examples of Pollutant Trading
8.8 Trading Strategies
8.9 Steps to Trading
8.10 Technical Memo: Specific Requirements of and Objectives for the Water Quality Model to Support Water Quality Trading in the Bear River Basin
8.11 Technical Memo: Review and Summary of Water Quality Modeling Approach to Support Water Quality Trading in the Bear River Basin
8.12 Technical Memo: Flow Chart of Water Quality Trading Modeling Structure
8.13 Technical Memo: Scalability of the Selected Modeling Approach
8.14 Typical Bear River Watershed Outreach Presentation
8.15 Other Outreach materials produced
8.16 Bear River WIS Newsletter, August 2007
8.17 Bear River Water Quality Trading Workshop Summary, August 2007
8.18 Bear River Symposium, September 2007:
8.18 A Bear River Symposium Agenda
8.18 B Abstracts
8.18 C Symposium photographs