References and Resources

River History

Albers, Jan. Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Ewald, Richard J. and Mulligan, Adair  D. Proud to Live Here: In the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Connecticut River Joint Commissions, Charlestown, NH, 2003.

Historical Themes: Themes in Vermont History. The Vermont Heritage Network. The University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. www.uvm.edu/~vhnet/hertour/hthome01.html

Meeks, Howard. Vermont’s Land and Resources. The New England Press, Shelburne, VT, 1992.

Nading Hill, Ralph. The Winooski: Heartway of Vermont. Rhinehart & Company, Inc. NY, 1949.

Wetherall, W.D. This American River: Five Centuries of Writing About the Connecticut. University Press of New England, Lebanon, NH, 2002.

River Geomorphology

Allan, J. David. Stream Ecology: The Structure and Function of Running Waters. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004.

Firehock, K., and J. Doherty. A Citizen’s Streambank Restoration Handbook. Izaak Walton League of America, Save Our Streams Program: 707 Conservation Lane; Gaithersburg, MD 20878; Tel:1(800) Bug-IWLA.

Gordon, Nancy S., et al., Stream Hydrology: An Introduction for Ecologist, Second Edition. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2004.

Riparian Buffer Information Fact Sheets. Connecticut River Joint Commissions.
Charlestown, NH, 2000. www.crjc.org/riparianbuffers.htm

The Best River Ever: A Conservation Plan to Protect and Restore Vermont’s Beautiful Mad River Watershed. Mad River Planning District and the Friends of the Mad River: P.O. Box 255; Waitsfield, VT 05673, 1995.

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Vermont Stream Geomorphic Assessment: Handbooks 1-3. April, 2005.


River Biology

Behar, Sharon. Testing the Waters: Chemical and Physical Vital Signs of a River. River Watch Network, Montpelier, VT, 1997.

Dates, Geoff and Byrne, Jack. Living Waters: Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Habitat to Assess Your River’s Health. River Watch Network, Montpelier, VT, 1997. http://www.rivernetwork.org

Mitchell, Mark K. and Stapp, William B. Field Manual for Water Quality Monitoring: An Environmental Education Program for Schools. Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, MI, 1996.

McCafferty, W. Patrick and Provonsha, Arwin V. Aquatic Entomology: The Fishermen’s and Ecologists’ Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, MA, 1998.

Voshell, Jr., J. Reese and Wright, Amy Bartlett. A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America. The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, VA, 2002.