SUPPORTING BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION PARTNERS:

Eric’s Canoe Rental: www.ericscanoerental.com

Leaves No Trace: www.lnt.org

Pardun’s Canoe Rental: www.pardunscanoerental.com

St. Croix River Fishing: www.stcroixriverfishing.com

Summer of Paddling 2012: http://www.sop2012.org/Home.aspx

Studio Northwoods (custom necklace for SCRA 100th anniversary & paddle): www.studionorthwoods.com

Wild Mountain (and Taylors Falls Canoes & Kayak rental): www.wildmountain.com

Wild River Outfitters: www.wildriverpaddling.com

ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMATION:

The Star Prairie Land Preservation Trust preserves environmentally sensitive land, to protect water quality and wildlife habitat for future generations. Efforts are focused on northern St. Croix and southern Polk Counties, currently protecting more than 300 acres through ownership and conservation easements.

The Heritage Initiative is a community-based project asking our neighbors in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s St. Croix River region — including those who live near its many tributaries — if a National Heritage Area would be a good fit for our area

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/watertrails/index.html

Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee

Wisconsin Land Trusts blog: www.wisconsinlandtrusts.org

 St. Croix National Scenic Riverway: www.nps.gov/sacn

Wisconsin Stewardship Network: www.wsn.org

Kinnickinnic River Land Trust: http://www.kinniriver.org/

River Alliance of Wisconsin: www.wisconsinrivers.org

Canoes on Wheels: http://canoesonwheels.org/

Izaak Walton League - http://www.iwla.org/

Midwest Environmental Advocates: http://www.midwestadvocates.org/

Ducks Unlimited: http://www.ducks.org/

Clean Wisconsin: www.cleanwisconsin.org

General Water Resource Information

National Geographic Water is Life

Triclosan – Environmental Science and Technology
Star Tribune: Down the drain and into the lakes
StarTribune:Protecting Minnesota waters from triclosan

Nutrient Policy and Studies

EPA’s new website on nutrient pollution policy and data to help individuals access information on EPA actions to reduce nutrient pollution, state efforts to develop numeric nutrient criteria, and EPA tools, data, research, and reports related to nutrient pollution: http://epa.gov/nandppolicy. Interactive map: http://epa.gov/nutrientpollution

Minnesota Environmental Partnership: www.protect.MN

St. Croix Falls Historical Society: http://fallschamber.org/history/scf-history/

Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctuary: www.hunthill.org

Outdoor Discovery Adventures: 715-294-2490

Conservation Programs

St. Croix Conservation Collaborative: http://basineducation.uwex.edu/stcroix/ConCollaborative/HomeSCCCollective.htm

The Nature Conservancy conservation program for the St. Croix: http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/stcroix/documents/

The Nature Conservancy study to identify areas of aquatic biodiversity significance in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: http://www.natureserve.org/publications/upperMSriverbasin.jsp

Standing Cedars Community Land Conservancy: www.standingcedars.org

Minnesota Board of Soil & Water Resources Clean Water Fund: http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/cleanwaterfund/index.html

Groundwater Studies

Groundwater susceptibility in the St. Croix Basin: 
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5112/

Highlights of the St. Croix Valley: 
http://www.gordonflowage.com

Natural Treasures of the St. Croix River Valley: http://www.greatrivergreening.org/treasures/default.asp

St. Croix Scenic Byway: http://www.stcroixscenicbyway.org

MDNR rivers managed for canoeing and kayaking: http://www.mndnr.gov/watertrails

St. Croix River Crossing Project

The “Annual Project Summary Report” for the St. Croix River Crossing Project, covering the period from March 1, 2010 thru February 28, 2011 has been completed and is available on the project’s website at http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/stcroix/status.html or http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/stcroix/documents.html

Invasive Species

Conference Presentations for Minnesota-Wisconsin Invasive Species Conference (MNWIISC) 2010 “Working Together to Control Invasive Species” http://mipn.org/MNWIISC_2010_Conference.html

Minnesota Noxious Weeds Guide

 

Modeling Systems

TAPwaters project: http://www.smm.org/scwrs/tapwaters

USGS SPARROW modeling: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow

USGS Gulf Hypoxia modeling: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow/gulf_findings

Monitoring Data

NPS Inventory & Monitoring Program: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/glkn/

EPA STORET: http://www.epa.gov/storet/dw_home.html

St. Croix River Monitoring report, 2008
 http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/GLKN/reports/WaterQuality/2007_SACNwq_report_final.pdf

St. Croix Watershed Research Station

Annual Research Rendezvous abstracts: http://www.smm.org/scwrs/publications/conference/

TMDL

Lake St Croix TMDL- Excess Nutrients: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/tmdl/project-stcroix-nutrients.html

Completed TMDLs: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/tmdl/tmdl-approved.html

Lake TMDL protocols: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/publications/wq-iw1-10.pdf

Bioavailable P: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/publications/reports/pstudy-section3-4.pdf

EPA’s Nineteen Allocation Schemes: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/models/allocation/19schemes.htm

USGS Gage Site

Prescott: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mn/nwis/uvcb_00045=on&cb_00065=on&cb_00055=on&cb_00011=on&format=gif_default&period=7&site_no=05344490

St. Croix Falls: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?05340500

Norway Point: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?05336000

Danbury: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?05333500

Namekagon River near Cable: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?05331833

USGS Publications used in the Phosphorus reduction goal setting

Lenz, Bernard N., Dale M. Robertson, James Fallon, and Randy Ferrin. 2001. Revised 2003. Nutrient and Suspended-Sediment Concentrations and Loads and Benthic-Invertebrate Data for Tributaries to the St. Croix River, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 1996-1999. U.S. Geological Survey. Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4162.
 http://wi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/wrir-01-4162/

Robertson, Dale M., and Bernard Lenz. 2003. Response of the St. Croix River Pools, Wisconsin and Minnesota, to Various Phosphorus-Loading Scenarios. United States Geological Survey. Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4181. http://wi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/wrir-02-4181/ (Note the publication year on this is 2002)

Lenz, B.N., 2004, Analysis of stream flow and water-quality data at two long-term monitoring sites on the St. Croix River, Wisconsin and Minnesota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03–4334, 8 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri034334

Watershed District Information

The Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District: http://www.clflwd.org

Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed District: http://cmscwd.org/default.aspx

Watershed Studies

St. Croix Reconnaissance Study: http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/docs/projs/1008stcroixrecon.pdf

Water Safety

http://www.webrangers.us/activities/watersafety/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56j-TQBofo

Videos

St. Croix River Association 2011 paddle down the St. Croix River

Tribute to Walter Mondale