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Partners

		New York City Department of Environmental Protection
		Watershed Agricultural Council
		Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene and Ulster Counties
		Greene County Soil & Water Conservation District
		Delaware County Soil & Water Conservation District
		Sullivan County Soil & Water Conservation District
		Catskill Watershed Corporation
		The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
		Trout Unlimited
		Schoharie County Soil and Water Conservation District

**Featured Event(s)**

* Third Annual Batavia Kill Festival - August 1, 2009 in Ashland, NY - contact Michelle Yost - michelle@gcswcd.com - for more info click here.

* Batavia Kill Festival Volunteers - Volunteers Needed! Want to help at a community event that’s full of activities centered on watershed stewardship? Then come join the Greene Stream Team! Volunteers receive food vouchers and beverages throughout the day. The first 20 to sign up also receive a free Batavia Kill Stream Celebration t-shirt! Call 518-589-6871 or email michelle@gcswcd.com.

* Didymo Alert - Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata), also known as "rock snot," is a non-native invasive microscopic algae that can produce large amounts of stalk material to form thick brown mats on stream bottoms. Didymo threatens aquatic habitat, biodiversity and recreational opportunities. Didymo has been confirmed in the following rivers in New York: Batten Kill and one tributary, EB Delaware River below Pepacton Reservoir, WB Delaware River below Cannonsville Reservoir, Mainstem Delaware River (Delaware and Sullivan Counties), Esopus Creek downstream of the Shandaken Portal. Click here for more info

Job Opportunities (Click position for more info):

Welcome to Catskill Streams, devoted to inspiring streamside landowners and the larger watershed community to live in harmony with Catskill creeks and rivers and the beautiful landscape they support. Please click on the links to the left or within the map below to read about stream stewardship and watershed protection efforts and how to get involved.

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The natural and cultural heritage of the Catskill region is inextricably linked to the unique high quality streams that course through its mountains and valleys and play a defining role in the character of its landscape. Recreation in and around these Catskill streams provides residents and visitors with a myriad of opportunities to reconnect with the natural world. The streams also provide 1.4 billion gallons of clean drinking water each day to over nine million residents in New York City and some smaller municipalities (nearly half the population of New York State).

Well-informed living along Catskill streams begins with understanding stream basics – the important environmental functions and services streams provide and the relationships among these functions. With this foundation, the visitor can view stream stewardship from three stream locations: instream, streamside or watershed community.

Please contact our partner agencies and organizations for further information.

For more information, e-mail info@catskillstreams.org
Jenn Grieser, Public Liaison, Riparian Buffer Working Group
71 Smith Ave., Kingston, NY 12401 · phone: (845) 340-7852· fax: (845) 338-1296

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