This page provides a brief bibliography and links to non-EPA studies, reports and resources that are useful supplements to the healthy watersheds documents created within the EPA program. All links below exit EPA’s website.The following links exit the site Exit

General background

Baron, J. S., Poff, N. L., Angermeier, P. L., Dahm, C. N., Gleick, P. H., Hairston, N. G., et al. (2003). Sustaining Healthy Freshwater Ecosystems. Issues in Ecology. Number 10 (PDF)  (18 pp, 276K). Exit

Doppelt, Robert; Scurlock, Mary; Frissell, Chris; Karr, James. (1993) Entering the Watershed: A New Approach To Save America's River Ecosystems. Island Press. Washington D.C.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (2005). Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Washington D.C.: Island Press. Exit

The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. (2008). The State of the Nation's Ecosystems. Exit  Island Press.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2002). A Framework for Assessing and Reporting on Ecological Condition. Science Advisory Board (PDF) (142 pp, 1.4MB) Exit

Protection

Kansas Heritage Streams: Identification and Protection of Healthy Watersheds (PDF) (2013) (163 pp, 6.4MB) Exit

Chesapeake Forests: Conserving the Bay’s headwaters - A Green Infrastructure Assessment and Plan for Nelson County (2011) Exit

Mapping Green Infrastructure in Ulster County, New York (PDF) (2013)( 28 pp, 4.2MB) Exit

Evaluating and Conserving Green Infrastructure Across the Landscape: A Practitioner’s Guide (2013) Exit

Green infrastructure and landscape ecology

Benedict, M. A., & McMahon, E. T. (2006). Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities. Island Press.

Duerksen, Christopher and Snyder, Cara. Nature Friendly Communities, Habitat Protection, and Land Use Planning. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 2005.

Forman, R. T. T. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

The Heritage Conservancy. (2003). Growing with Green Infrastructure (PDF). (20 pp, 4.54MB) Exit

The Nature Conservancy. (2008). The Active River Area: A Conservation Framework for Protecting Rivers and Streams (PDF). (64 pp, 4.84MB) Exit

Economic benefits

Socioeconomic Value of the Delaware River Basin in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (PDF) . (103 pp, 2.6MB) Exit

The Economic Value of Protected Open Space in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Exit

Financial Returns to Industry from the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Program (PDF) . (96 pp, 2.2MB) Exit

Sportfishing in America: An Economic Force for Conservation (PDF). (12 pp, 1.1MB) Exit

Common Waters Healthy Forests, Healthy Watersheds Initiative Exit

Comprehensive Study on Economic Valuation, Economic Impact Assessment, and State Conservation Funding of Green Infrastructure Assets in Michigan (PDF) . (108 pp, 11.5MB) Exit

Hydrology

Arthington, Angela H, S.E. Bunn, N.L. Poff and R.J. Naiman. (2006). The Challenge of Providing Environmental Flow Rules to Sustain River Ecosystems. Ecological Applications 16(4): 1311-1318.

Ernst, C., Gullick, R., & Nixon, K. (2004). Protecting the Source: Conserving Forests to Protect Water. Opflow, 30(5) (PDF). (5 pp, 484K) Exit

Fausch, K.D., C.E. Torgersen, C.V. Baxter, and H.W. Li. (2002). Landscapes to Riverscapes: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Conservation of Stream Fishes. BioScience 52:483-498.

Kendy, E., Apse, C., and K. Blann. (2012). A Practical Guide to Environmental Flows Policy and Planning (PDF). (74 pp, 1.5MB) Exit

Montgomery, D. R., & Buffington, J. M. (1998). Channel Processes, Classification, and Response. River Ecology and Management. 13-42.

Poff, N.L., J.D. Allan, M. B. Bain, J.R. Karr, K.L. Prestegaard, B. Richter, R. Sparks, and J. Stromberg. (1997). The Natural Flow Regime: a new paradigm for riverine conservation and restoration. BioScience, 47: 769-784.

Poff, N.L., et al. (2010). The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards. Freshwater Biology, 55.1: 147-170.

Richter, B.D., J.V. Baumgartner, J. Powell, and D.P. Braun. (1996). A Method for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration within Ecosystems. Conservation Biology. 10:1163-1174. Exit

World Resources Institute. (2013). Natural Infrastructure Investing in Forested Landscapes for Source Water Protection in the United States. Exit

Biological condition

Flebbe, P., L. Roghair, and J. Bruggink. 2006. Spatial modeling to project Southern Appalachian Trout distribution in warmer climate. Transaction of the American Fisheries Society, 135:1371-1382.

Jelks, H.L., et al. (2008). Conservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes. Fisheries, 33(8): 372-407.

Karr, J. R. (1981). Assessment of Biotic Integrity Using Fish Communities. Fisheries, 6: 21-27.

Master, Lawrence L., Stephanie R. Flack, and Bruce A. Stein, eds. (1998). Rivers of Life: Critical Watersheds for Protecting Freshwater Biodiversity. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia (PDF). (77 pp, 7.26MB) Exit