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50 Ways To Love Your River

Author
Reprinted from the Oregon Environmental Council
oeconline.org

More and more, people forget the impact they have every day on their rivers. Most clean water regulations focus on reducing pollution from big sources such as factories and sewage treatment plants. Although industry needs to be cleaned up further, it’s time we turned our attention to forestry, agriculture and the behavior of each resident of the watershed.

Rain, Rain, Where Do You Go?

Resources
Planting for Clean Water www.bluethumb.org

Friends of the Mississippi River www.fmr.org

Minnesota Associate of Watershed Districts www.mnwatershed.org

Alien Invasion: Invasive Exotic Species in Minnesota

Author
Erin Hendel

 

"We are in a period of the world's history when the mingling of thousands of kinds of organisms from different parts of the world are setting up terrific dislocations in nature." - Charles S. Elton

Resources

Web Resources

Plant Conservation Alliance    www.nps.gov/plants/alien/

 

Books

Going Native: Prairie Restoration Handbook for Minnesota Landowners, Rebecca Kilde and Ellen Fuge, ed.

Gardening with Native Wildflowers, Samuel B. Jones and Leonard E. Foote, 1990

Alien Invasion: America's Battle with Non-native Animals and Plants, Robert Devine, 1998

 

Organizations

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Department of Ecological Services
500 W. Lafayette Rd.
Box 25
St. Paul, MN 651-296-2835
www.dnr.state.mn.us

Great River Greening
35 West Water St.
Suite 201
St. Paul, MN 651-665-9500
www.greatrivergreening.org
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