Our purpose is to protect & restore Alabama's rivers. To do this, we advocate smart water policy, organize at the grassroots level, and teach citizens how they can protect their water. Our goal is to achieve healthy rivers, healthy people, and a healthy system of government for the state of Alabama.

Alabama's Water Environment Association (AWEA) is a service organization providing information and education for industrial environmental issues including air, water and solid waste. Members of AWEA include environmental professionals, municipal system operators, industrial operators, environmental engineers, state regulators and other individuals in environmental occupations.

The Cacapon River, located in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia's eastern panhandle region, is a beautiful and scenic river known for its outstanding fishing, boating, wildlife, and scenery.  The Cacapon, and the Institute, gets its name from a Native American word meaning "healing waters".  As part of the Potomac River watershed, it is an American Heritage River.

This online Conservation Planning Tool is designed to provide web-based conservation assistance to help landowners on the urban fringe understand the importance of their land in preserving their local rural heritage, local water quality and water supplies, and wildlife habitat.

A cooperative effort being piloted in central Tennessee, this planning tool provides case studies of local landowners who are implementing land conservation practices and best management practices. It highlights farmland preservation strategies, provides online tutorials, fact sheets and an email link for requesting technical assistance.

The feed-back e-mail system monitored by the Southeast Watershed Forum staff will direct requests for assistance to the appropriate program partner; the Land Trust for Tennessee, Harpeth River Watershed Association, Williamson County Soil and Water Conservation District, NRCS staff, or the Extension office.

It is hoped that this user-friendly web-based tool will encourage farmland preservation on the urban fringe and encourage installation of best management practices to maintain and improve local water quality and quality of life. It is hoped that this pilot will be expanded regionally to serve other counties facing similar threats to their rural heritage.

Delta F.A.R.M. or Delta Farmers Advocating Resource Management is an association of growers and landowners that strive to implement recognized agricultural practices which will conserve, restore,and enhance the environment of the Northwest Mississippi. In joining this association,growers and landowners agree to use the environmental program to access their farms and to guide them in attaining the highest possible level of land and water resource stewardship in order to ensure a more sustainable and profitable future for agriculture.

The Eastern Coal Regional Roundtable (ECRR) was established to be a helping hand for grass-roots watershed groups striving to provide solutions to environmental problems in Appalachia's coal country.  Recognizing that these groups often experience similar challenges, ECRR provides informational resources to watershed groups so they can more effectively deal with those challenges. 

The purpose of the Society is to promote understanding, protection, restoration and comprehensive management of lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, and their watersheds. The objectives of the Society are to:

• Provide a forum for sharing of information and experiences on scientific, administrative, legal, and financial aspects of lake, wetland, and watershed management.
• Foster the development of local lake and wetland restoration and protection programs in accordance with appropriate management strategies and techniques.
• Encourage the development of local, state, and national programs, policies and legislation promoting lake, wetland, and watershed management.
• Encourage the cooperation and interaction of organizations, agencies, units of government, and individuals concerned with lake, wetland, and watershed improvement and protection.
  

Green Building Community Case Studies - 2012

The report identifies why and how local governments have developed green building programs. It appears the motivating factors have been many, from meeting air quality standards, to reducing infrastructure costs, to saving energy costs and promoting a green image. The 125-page report contains highlights of the economic benefits from green building programs, factors that encourage green building programs, 16 case studies of community green building programs, a chart comparing 48 communities and their green building practices, and an appendix with additional information and web links.

The project was conducted on behalf of the Southeast Smart Growth Network, a consortium of over 20 universities, organizations and agencies working in southeastern communities to help implement smart growth policies and practices. Additional information on green building practices is also available from the EPA's Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Communities available at: www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/tools.html.

Or, go to http://www.southeastwaterforum.org/ to view individual state / city case studies.

Green Building Report - Spring 2012

The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) is a diverse network of local, regional and national groups dedicated to protecting and restoring the valuable resources of the Gulf of Mexico. The GRN has members in the five Gulf states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and nationwide.

The Harpeth River Watershed Association (HRWA) in middle Tennessee is dedicated to preserving and restoring the ecological health of the Harpeth River and its Watershed. Our work leverages the scientific and technical training and experience of our staff and advisors with the efforts of a diverse corps of volunteers who are crucial to every aspect of our programs.

The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway seeks to understand, to demonstrate, and to promote excellence in natural resource management and conservation on the landscape of the southeastern coastal plain of the United States.

Land Trust for Tennessee

The Land Trust, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, works exclusively with willing landowners to find ways to preserve forever the scenic and natural values of their land. Our main tool for ensuring this preservation is called a conservation easement, and it is an alternative to just selling the land for development.

The Land Trust of Huntsville & North Alabama offers a balance between growth and preservation. We are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for present and future generations. This quality of life will ensure our region's prospects for continued economic prosperity.

The Mississippi River Basin is the largest watershed in North America, draining 41% of the continental United States and discharging into the Northern Gulf of Mexico.  Aquatic ecosystems, and national and local economies, depend on healthy, oxygen-rich Gulf waters, which can be negatively impacted by excess nutrients (eutrophication). In 1997, a coalition of federal, state, and tribal agencies established the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force to understand the causes and effects of eutrophication in the Gulf of Mexico and to coordinate activities to help reduce the area of oxygen-depleted water in the Gulf, also known as the hypoxic zone.

The Potomac Highlands Watershed School is a place where students in the Potomac Highlands and the rest of the Chesapeake Bay region can learn about the watershed issues, and teachers can come for educational support with lesson plans and ties to curriculum standards.  Just click on any door and make yourself at "home."  

Preserve Our Lowcountry, founded by the Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS, is about preserving the way of life that is uniquely Lowcountry.  It’s time to protect our quality of life and focus our efforts on reducing road congestion, creating better paying jobs, improving the quality of our schools, ensuring that our residents have affordable places to call home andthe preservation of our pristine environment.

The Red River Watershed Association is a community-based organization made up of Kentucky and Tennessee residents. We are all stakeholders in the watershed - farmers/landowners, homeowners, business people, agency representatives, local government representatives, concerned parents, environmentalists, and others - who are dedicated to enhancing and protecting the quality and quantity of water in the creeks and streams that flow into the Red River. We accomplish this mission through education, by promoting cooperation with communities, business, and agencies, and encouraging responsible stewardship.

The Saluda-Reedy Watershed Consortium is a collaborative effort by organizations and individuals concerned about the impacts of changing land use on the purity and abundance of water in the Saluda-Reedy basin. The Consortium includes a wide variety of partners from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Its work has earned the support of a growing list of community leaders in government, business, and academia.

The Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (SAFC) is a regional non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and restore the wildlands, waters, native forests and ecosystems of the Southern Appalachian landscape. SAFC formed in 1994 when conservation groups determined a regional voice was needed to address the increasing threats facing Southern Appalachian public lands. Our objectives are to create a unified and compelling regional conservation vision for the 21st Century; to achieve greater representation in Washington DC; and to strengthen grassroots groups with the tools and leadership needed to protect the forests at the local level - with organizational development, science, mapping, and regional coordination.

The Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN) is a consortium of public and private partners who work together to build and maintain an integrated information system that serves as the gateway to regional biological information to enable the use of science and information technologies for decision-making, sustainable development, research, education, and outreach.  

The Teaming with Wildlife Coalition is organized on the state level, where state wildlife agencies and leading conservation groups are building a diverse movement of organizations and businesses that support the goal of restoring and conserving our nation's wildlife.  Look up all of the state coalition websites in the Southeast.   

Upstate Forever promotes sensible growth and the protection of special places in the Upstate region of South Carolina.  The membership-based, nonprofit organization covers nine counties: Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and Union.