The following are links to online resources we have found while researching the restoration and protection of the creek. Please let us know if you have any you’d like us to consider including.
Online Resources
Federal
- Environmental Protection Agency
- US Army Corps of Engineers – New England Division
- US Commission on Ocean Policy
- US Department of Agriculture
- US Department of Environmental Protection – Wetlands, Oceans, & Watersheds
- US Department of Fish & Wildlife Services
- US Department of Transporation
- US Geologic Survey
State
- Maine Land Trust
- Maine Nature News
- Maine Rivers
- Natural Resources Council of Maine
- State of Maine Site
- Buffer Handbook and Plant List
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Conservation
- Depatment of Environmental Protection
- Bureau of Land & Water Quality
- Education Resources
- In Our Backyard – weekly column
- Maine Stream Teams
- Overboard Discharges & Failing Septic Systems
- Streams & Rivers
- Deptartment of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife – “Maine Wetlands Protection Coalition”
- Department of Marine Resources
- Department of Transportation
- Maine Geological Survey
- Maine Coastal Program
- Shore Stewards Grants
- Coastlinks: Resource guide to Maine’s coastal organizations
- Additional Links
- MEPDES Stormwater Information
- Other Maine Town Sites
- State Planning Office
- Wastewater and Plumbing Control Program
- State of Maine Coastal Zones Map
- Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve – Links provided by Wells Nationatl Estuarine Research Reserve
- Spruce Creek Overview (This handout was taken from the Spruce Creek Watershed Conservation Strategy report, one of seven written for Southern Maine watersheds, produced by the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in April 2003.)
- Stormwater Management in Cold Climates Conference (proceedings and abstracts of the papers presented)
- Maine Sea Grant
- University of Maine
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Local
- Kittery Land Trust
- Great Works Regional Land Trust – Mission is to conserve natural, historic, agricultural, scenic and recreational resources within the Maine communities of Eliot, the Berwicks, Wells and Ogunquit.
- Town of Kittery Website
- York Rivers Association
General
- Center for Watershed Protection
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
- Forest Cover, Impervious-Surface Area, and the Mitigation of Stormwater Impacts (Study from Washington State)
- Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia: Publications
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Its mission as a school is to study and teach land policy, including land economics and land taxation.
- The Nature Conservancy
- Tide Chart
- Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO – Linking Land Use to Water Quality)
- River Network
- Smart Growth Online
- Sustainable Communities Network
Spruce Creek Association 