Follow these links for more information.
Organizations
• Waterkeepers Alliance http://www.waterkeeper.org
• National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org
• Clean Water Action http://www.cleanwateraction.org/co
• Cache la Poudre River Foundation http://www.poudrefoundation.org
• Defenders of Wildlife http://www.defenders.org
• WildEarth Guardians http://www.wildearthguardians.org
• The Xerces Society http://www.xerces.org
• Environment Colorado http://www.environmentcolorado.org
• Lighthawk http://www.lighthawk.org
• Colorado Water Trust http://www.coloradowatertrust.org
• Paddler's community website http://www.mountainbuzz.com
• Western Resource Advocates http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org
• Colorado Environmental Coalition http://www.ourcolorado.org/
• Sierra Club, Poudre Canyon Group http://rockymtn.sierraclub.org/pcg/index.html
• Friends of the Poudre http://friendsofthepoudre.org/
• Poudre Paddlers http://www.poudrepaddlers.org/
• Trout Unlimited, Rocky Mountain Flycasters http://www.rockymtnflycasters.org/
• Fort Collins Audubon Society http://www.fortnet.org/Audubon/
• Citizen Planners http://www.fortnet.org/cp/
• Wolverine Farm Publishing http://www.wolverinefarmpublishing.org
• The Bean Cycle/Matter Bookstore http://www.thebeancycle.com/
Legal/Institutional Links
• Colorado Water Congress http://www.cowatercongress.org/
• Status of in-stream flow rights in Colorado. http://www.cotrout.org/Default.aspx?tabid=110
• Julesburg water needs http://www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/esb/2004/august/aug048.htm
Agricultural Issues
• Fiscal consequences of losing irrigated ag land, see page 4 in http://cwrri.colostate.edu/pubs/newsletter/2005/FEbr%2005COWater.pdf
Water Quantity
• Streamflow data
• Poudre River at Poudre Rock (Pineview) Gage
• USGS Water Alerts for low or high water at any gage
• Poudre River at Canyon Mouth Gage
• Poudre River at Lincoln Street Gage
• Poudre River above Boxelder Creek Gage
• Poudre River at Greeley
• Workings of the South Platte alluvial aquifer http://capp.water.usgs.gov/gwa/ch_c/C-text2.html
• illustrations http://capp.water.usgs.gov/gwa/ch_c/jpeg/C023.jpeg
• City of Boulder's Instream Flow Program http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2765&Itemid=1245
• The USGS authoritative Water Use in the United States http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
Water Quality
• Thermal study on the Poudre through Fort Collins http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products/Publications/4061/4061.pdf
• USGS NAWQA study summary http://co.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/splt/html/spbasininfo.html
• USGS NAWQA study full report http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ/circ1167/
• Feedlot links
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra01/jarrett.html
http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/factor/stcol.asp
• Pesticide issues http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/dw_contamfs/atrazine.html
• Mutant Fish from Sewage Plants http://www.jcaa.org/JCNL0411/MutantFish.htm
Other
• "On the Cache la Poudre River", by Worthington Whittredge, 1876. An image and description can be found at: http://www.cartermuseum.org/Inspiring_Visions/Whittredge/whittredge_art.html
• “How to Save A River” http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/155963250X/interactiveda164-20/002-7093597-8220824
• Wockner drought article http://garywockner.home.comcast.net/Duped1.htm
• New York Times editorial on western rivers and development http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30sat3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
• New Belgium Brewery's environmental responsibility site, including a "save the rivers" campaign http://www.followyourfolly.com/folly_save_our_rivers.html
• Colorado River Water District site explaining link between western and eastern Colorado water http://www.itsthesamewater.com/index.html
• Photos of trashed out Cache la Poudre River http://endangeredpoudre.org
• Nature Conservancy on the Heartbeat of Rivers http://nature.org/RIVER
NISP Info From The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
For NISP related information presented by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (NCWCD), please click here. But be forewarned that the information presented changes frequently and its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.




