What you can do
Landowners along the more than 14,700 river and stream miles of the Lake Champlain watershed play a vital role in maintaining healthy and resilient ecosystems. Their efforts—your efforts!—help protect our community infrastructure against floods, provide good water quality, create endless recreation opportunities for us and for future generations, and provide home to diverse fish and wildlife. Stream Wise promotes eight steps to support healthy streams and build community resilience. They range from stopping a harmful practice, to doing nothing and letting nature heal with ecological succession; or actively stabilizing soil, planting native species, and other practices to restore natural structures and functions of the land near rivers and streams.
8 Steps for Streams:
Do you want to help protect and improve your local stream community? Become a Stream Steward! Learn more about Stream Wise, explore our resources for streamside property owners and Stream Wise partners. Follow Stream Wise on social media @streamwisechamplain..
If you own streamside property, ask about our FREE property assessment. If not, reach out for volunteer opportunities with Stream Wise. Contact us.
Advisory Committee: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Adirondack Park Agency, The Vermont Nature Conservancy
2023 Community Partners: Ausable River Association, Franklin County Natural Resource Conservation District, Franklin Watershed Committee, Friends of the Winooski River Inc., Lake Champlain Committee, Lamoille County Conservation District, Missisquoi River Basin Association, Organisme de basin versant de la baie Missiquoi, Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute
Stream Wise is a project of Lake Champlain Basin Program and NEIWPCC