Geography Summer Institute for Teachers K-6: Children Caring for Local Environments

Resources on the Web

  Maps & Tools 

Cumberland Head (Terra Server)          Dead Creek (Terra Server)

Point Au Roche State Park        Point Au Roche Lighthouse

Lake Champlain Basin Atlas       Lake Champlain Watershed       Lake Champlain Viewed from Space  

Saranac/Chazy Basin      Chazy Lake (DEC Contour Map)       Lake Alice Wildflower Checklist (DEC)

Lake Champlain Marshes Bird Conservation Map (DEC)    Ausable Marsh Wildlife Management (DEC)

Watershed Management (DEC)         Hydrologic Prediction Service (NWS): Saranac River

DEC Map Gateway       TerraServer

       Information & Issues      

New! Report on Water Quality from the Adirondack Council (be prepared to hear a loon)

Clinton County Historian, Plattsburgh, NY          Clinton County Historical Society Museum

Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Society, Keeseville, NY

Samuel de Champlain Open Portal            New York State Newspapers on Microfilm

National Register of Historic Places, Clinton County

The Shoreline Stabilization Handbook

"10,000 Snow Geese use the wetlands along Lake Champlain at Point Au Roche," according to a report prepared for Noble (wind power in Clinton County).

Draft Environmental Impact Report on planning for the New York State Wireless Network (a massive PDF file, but it has a useful glossary and bibliography and offers an overview of agencies, laws and planning procedures.)

American Whitewater: Saranac River (Issues)

Fishing (All Points North)          Little Ausable River Trail 

Lake Champlain Land Trust: Paddling Through History

Historic Flood (1996) in the Champlain Basin (NWS)

Ausable River Watershed (National Resources Conservation Service)

      Community Agencies  

Lake Champlain Basin Program

 Cornell University Cooperative Extension  

     Clinton County Cornell Cooperative Extension 

 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) 

Saranac Waterkeeper (Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc.)

Historic Lakes ( & Valcour Bay Research Project)

New York State Soil & Water Conservation Committee, County Water Quality

Vermont Land Trust

      Stewardship     

Watershed Stewardship

Friends of Point Au Roche

Adirondack Architectural Heritage

Four Winds Nature Institute (offers workshops for parents, too!)

Lake Champlain Farm Award

              Community Connections       

LocalSustainability.com

H2O Conserve

Lakes to Locks Passage

   Local Resources 

"Down the Saranac" Stan Ransome's History in Music

    Regional and National Resources  

CO-SEED at Antioch New England

State Education & Environment Roundtable (SEER)

Boston Experiential Environmental Education (E3) Programs