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Archaeology

Biology

• Birding in Upstate AZ - Northern AZ Audubon Society
• Rocky Mountain Research Station (U of A, Flagstaff Lab) Beaver Creek Plants and Animals
• Animal Diversity Web - University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology
• Natureserve Explorer - An Online Encyclopaedia of Life

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Climatology

• Rocky Mountain Research Station (U of A, Flagstaff Lab) Climate
• Rocky Mountain Research Station (U of A, Flagstaff Lab) Precipitation

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Conservation

• Fossil Creek Watershed Restoration- NAU Water Research and Education Program
• Man and the Biosphere in Beaver Creek
• Center for Watershed Protection - provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations
  around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the nation's most precious natural resources: our streams, lakes and rivers.
• Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned - from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds .
• Designer Partnerships -- A Watershed Approach to Ecosystem Management by Barry Lewis, Science Writer, Environmental Associates, Academy of Natural Sciences, January, 1995.
• WaterWiser - provides a Drip Calculator and consevation tips, maintained by the American Water Works Association.

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Education

• RMRS - Resources for Kids and Teachers
• Adopt-A-Watershed is a K-12 school-community learning experience, using a local watershed as a living laboratory in which students engage in hands-on activities.
• What is a Watershed -- a brief video on the web illustrates what a watershed is. If you can't access it, you may need to download a plug-in like Apple Quicktime to view it. Other videos: Everyone Impacts a Watershed and Potential Sources of Pollution .
• Water Science for Schools from the U.S. Geological Survey, including a great glossary of water terms:
• Water-Science Glossary of Terms
• Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) Resources - lists sites about rivers, water quality, and a wide variety of water topics. Covers sites of interest to researchers and K-12 teachers.
• Fossil Creek Watershed Restoration- NAU Water Research and Education Program

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Geology

• RMRS - Geology of the Beaver Creek Watershed

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Geography/ Maps

• EPA - Water Mapper
• Paleogeography of the Southwestern US (NAU Geology professor Dr. Ronald Blakey's scientific and artistic renditions of Arizona geography through geologic time)

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GIS

• Arizona Land Resource Information System - GIS dataset downloads
• USDA Data Gateway - GIS dataset downloads

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Government

• Coconino National Forest
• EPA on Streams

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Hydrology

• USGS Study of Upper Verde River Water Resources (Owen-Joyce and Bell, 1983)
• AZ Dept of Water Resources - Verde Watershed
• Verde River Basin Real-Time Surface Water Data - USGS now provides near real time access to water flow data. This page covers the Verde River Basin, with Beaver Creek about in the middle.
• Verde River Watershed , includes maps of soils, wells, stream gauging information.
• EPA - Water Mapper
• Rocky Mountain Research Station: Runoff, Sedimentation, and Erosion
• USGS - Arizona Rural Watershed Initiative - provides live data on groundwater, seepage, meteorology
• Daily Stream Flow Gage Measurements for Wet Beaver Creek (USGS)

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Images

• RMRS Beaver Creek Management Photos

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Management

• Watershed Management Council provides a newsletter, a calendar of relevant meetings and conferences, and a database of its full-text publications.
• Managing Watersheds to Improve Land and Water - good background and current policy on watershed management in the Southwest.
• FRAME
• NPS - Montezuma Castle
• International Arid Land Consortium
• RMRS-Managing Arid Watersheds -Beaver Creek
• Man and the Biosphere in Beaver Creek

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Maps

• Rocky Mountain Research Station - Driving Tour of the Beaver Creek Watershed
• Arc-IMS Dynamic Map of Beaver Creek -RMRS
• USGS Interactive Map - Upper/Middle Verde Watershed

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Scientific Literature

• Water and Climate Bibliography by Pacific Institute. A comprehensive database of scientific literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources worldwide. The current version contains 3600 entries.

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Tourism

• NPS - Montezuma Castle
• Rocky Mountain Research Station - Driving Tour of the beaver Creek Watershed

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Water Use

• Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database - A project of the Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences to aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution.

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Watersheds

• Know Your Watershed - maps of watersheds and a variety of full-text guides about watershed issues, includes a Watershed IQ Test, by Conservation Technology Information Center.
• Science in Your Watershed - by the U.S.G.S., the purpose of this site is to help you find scientific information organized on a watershed basis.
• Surf Your Watershed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows searching by zip code or state or other factors to identify particular watersheds. This site offers a facility to create maps of particular watersheds.
• Verde Watershed Research and Education Program

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