Member Publications

Connecticut NEMO

Colorado

Contact:
Cynthia Peterson

www.awarecolorado.org/resources.html

AWARE Colorado’s new guide, "Water Protection Toolkit for Local Officials: Connecting Land Use with Water Quality," was developed to help land use decision makers better understand proven approaches to protect water quality through community planning.

The toolkit has ideas about ways to safeguard water resources, examples from Colorado communities, and suggested resources for learning more. With sections on the water and land connection, reducing impervious surfaces, collaboration, planning and zoning tools, reducing transportation-related impacts, improved landscaping and regulatory programs, the toolkit raises awareness of the importance that planning plays in protecting the state’s water bodies.

Northland NEMO (Minnesota)

www.northlandnemo.org

Northland NEMO's New "Natural Resource Information" Collateral

Northland NEMO, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District are pleased to introduce two new products to help local communities incorporate natural resources into their activities:

The Brochure, "A Quick Guide to Using Natural Resource Information" and companion CD-rom "Guide to Using Natural Resource Information in Local Decision Making" are now available in hard copy from the DNR (see below) or in electronic form at the DNR's website: www.dnr.state.mn.us/nri.

The Guide illustrates how using natural resource information in the local land use planning process can ensure that land use decisions are made in an environmentally sensitive and fiscally responsible way. It outlines a step-by-step Natural Resource-based Planning Process designed to provide planning guidance for people with a wide range of backgrounds and interests, including: local officials, local staff, concerned citizens, developers and other land use professionals.

The Quick Guide brochure serves as an introduction to the much more in-depth CD rom, which provides details about how to do a natural resource inventory, including where to find critical pieces of natural resource data that may already exist for your community.

The CD rom also includes numerous case studies of how communities have used natural resource information in a wide variety of ways.

Mississippi

Contact:
James MacLellan

MS NEMO (a.k.a. Community Growth Readiness - NEMO), in partnership with the Mississippi Forestry Commission and Mississippi State University, has developed a package of educational materials designed to help communities use urban forest management plans to manage stormwater and heat effects in urban areas. The package includes a manual on developing urban forestry management plans and several related presentations.

deq.state.ms.us/MDEQ.nsf/page/NPS_Publications_Literature?OpenDocument

Nevada NEMO

Nevada NEMO has been honored with “Outstanding Educational Materials Awards” from the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP). Susan Donaldson won a Silver award for her adaptation of the NEMO Fact Sheet series in the “Long Publication” category (she also copped a Gold award for her Truckee Meadows Weed Coordinating Group Public Outreach Campaign and a Silver award for her Are Invasive Weeds Ruining Your Neighborhood? publication).

The Nevada fact sheets focus on runoff issues concerning communities in a desert climate. The following are currently posted on the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension website.

• Nonpoint Source Water Pollution
• The Effects of Urbanization on the Water Cycle
• Water Quality Challenges Facing Our Community
• Impacts of Development on Waterways
• Strategies for Coping with Polluted Runoff

www.des.state.nh.us/coastal/resources/index.html

NROC's new publication Setting Goals, Redefining Boundries

The New Hampshire NEMO program (NROC - Natural Resource Outreach Coalition), has just released a new publication, Setting Goals, Redefining Boundries, highlighting what many of the towns they have worked with have accomplished. The publication is an impressive array of changes coastal communities have made, from building the capacity of local land use decision makers to changes to plans, policies and regulations.

--> Read Setting Goals, Redefining Boundries

www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/NEMO/NEMOpubs.htm

The New York NEMO Program - Provides a background on New York's non-point source education program, as well as information on its workshops, related materials, and goals.

Nonpoint Source Pollution: New York's Primary Water Quality Problem - Why is there still water that's too dirty for swimming, fishing, or drinking? Why are native species of plants and animals disappearing from many rivers, lakes, and coastal waters? Find out more about the impacts of non-point source pollution (NSP) and runoff contaminants and the "watershed approach" to managing NSP.

Impacts of Development on Waterways: Linking Land Use to Water Quality - Learn how altering the land disrupts the water cycle and its balance with surrounding habitat as well as how towns can "pitch in" to make a difference.

The Nissequogue River: A River of Special Significance - The Nissequogue's resources are rich, unique, and regionally important. As a result, New York State has officially recognized certain areas within the river's drainage basin as being of statewide significance. Find out more about this river, it's fish and wildlife, conservation issues, recommendations, and partnerships.

http://nemo.osu.edu/factsheet.html

• Non Point Source Water Pollution (html format)
• Stormwater and Your Community (html format)
• Coping with Stormwater Runoff (html format)
• Multi-Functional Landscaping: Putting Your Parking Lot Design Requirements to Work for Water Quality (pdf format)

Texas