The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program produces publications meant to inform streamside landowners, visitors, and other interested parties about our program activities and to provide guidance on a variety of stream management topics. Below you will find links to our program brochure, annual report, newsletter, our “Stream Guide” factsheet series, and other reports for general audiences. For technical documents and stream management plans, see the links at left.
AWSMP Program Brochure
The Program Brochure provides an overview of AWSMP, its partner agencies and mission. (1.3 MB, pdf)
Annual Plan
Adventure Guide
Explore the Ashokan Reservoir watershed and take the adventure guide challenge to receive a badge.
Ashokan Watershed Adventure Guide
Stream Guide Factsheet Series
Anyone who lives beside a stream knows the joys and challenges of living in close proximity to moving water. This series provides resources for landowners to learn more about living in harmony with streams.
- Landowner’s Guide to Substantial Improvement and Damage
- Landowner’s Guide to Live Staking
- Homeowner’s Guide to Mitigating Flood Risk
- Sediment Management
- Native Plant Guide
- Guide to Large Woody Debris Management
- Guide to Flood Emergency Preparedness
Additional Resources
- Common Invasive Species of Catskill Riparian Areas
- Guide to Stream Friendly Practices
- Knotweed_Brochure
- Knotweed-Spread the Word Not the Weed
- Catskill Streams Buffer Initiative
Videos
Links below will open a Vimeo or YouTube channel.
Esopus Creek Watershed
- Exploring the Upper Esopus Creek Watershed (short film)
- Conservation with Adam Doan: A Career in Stream Management
- Tale of a Stream Educator: Conversation with Tim Koch
Youth Education
- Snapshots from the Field – Bennett Science Kids
- The Movement of Stream Sediment
- Stream Erosion
- Watershed Animal Spotlight – The American Robin – (Birding in the Watershed blogpost)
- CCEUC Storytime: Little One and the Water
- Watersheds and River Systems – (Activity Sheet, Key)
- Watershed Animal Spotlight – The American Beaver (webpage) – (Video youtube; Beaver Quiz pdf; Beaver Quiz pptx; Drawing a Beaver pdf)
- Sketching a Site Map – (Activity Sheet)
- Igenous and Metamorphic Rock
- Stream Cross-Sections – (Activity Sheet, Key)
- Stream Features – (Activity Sheet, Key)
- Sedimentary Rocks
- Introduction to Road-Stream Crossing Assessment – (Activity Sheet)
- Introduction to Rocks
- Stream Ecosystems – Bennett Science Kids
- The Importance of Streams – Bennett Science Kids
- All About Water – Bennett Science Kids
- The Watershed – Bennett Science Kids
Streams 101
- Stream Channel Stability
- Reference Reach Survey
- Hydrograph of Tropical Storm Isaias
- Bank Erosion Monitoring
- Stream Restoration Project Monitoring
- Stream Feature Inventory
Flood Mitigation
- What is a Stream Gage?
- How to Use a Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
- How to Read a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
Ashokan Watershed Conference Series
- Meditation to Connect with the Natural World
- River Meditation
- Streamside Qigong
- River Yoga: Gentle Flow
- Blues Spaces, Healing Spaces: Lecture on Health Benefits of Time Near Water
- Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species
- Get to Know Invasive Plants
- Invasive Species Management
- Invasives: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Emerald Ash Borer
- History and Future of the Esopus Creek Fishery
- Managing for Sustainable Ecotourism
- Sustainable Fisheries
- Stream Experts Panel
- The Rivers Future Generations Will See
- Building the Ashokan Watershed
- Why We Are Here
- Bark Peeling
- Cultural History of the Ashokan Watershed
- Climate Change: Less and More Water
- Rivers are Dynamic and Evolve
- Stable Rivers Need Room
- Let’s Talk About Dredging
- Sizing Infrastructure for Increased Flood Flows
Newsletters
- The Trib Late Winter 2025
- Esopus Creek News Winter 2025
- Esopus Creek News Spring 2024
- The Trib Winter 2024
- Esopus Creek News Fall 2023
- The Trib 2023 Summer Edition
- Esopus Creek News Fall 2022
- The Trib 2022 summer
- Esopus Creek News Winter 2022
- Esopus Creek News Summer 2021
- Esopus Creek News Winter 2021
- The Trib 2020 Spring Edition
- Esopus Creek News Summer 2019
- Esopus Creek News Winter 2019
- Esopus Creek News 2018 summer
- The Trib 2017 summer
- Esopus Creek News 2017 winter
- The Trib 2016 summer
- Esopus Creek News 2016 spring
- Esopus Creek News 2016 winter
- The Trib 2015 summer
- Esopus Creek News 2015 spring-summer
- The Trib 2014 summer
Flood Hazard Mitigation
Training and information resources for Town flood advisory committee or board members and others engaged in local flood hazard mitigation.
Local Flood Analysis Reports
Lanesville Local Flood Analysis Report (June 2025)
Pine Hill Local Flood Analysis Report (November 2022)
Shandaken and Allaben Local Flood Analysis Report (February 2018)
Phoenicia and Mt. Tremper Local Flood Analysis Report (October 2016)
Boiceville and West Shokan Local Flood Analysis Report (August 2017)
- Boiceville and West Shokan LFA Report
- Boiceville and West Shokan Appendix A
- Boiceville and West Shokan Appendix B
Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) – Training by Dave Murphy, MMI
Navigating Benefit-Cost Analysis (6 mb, pdf)
River Hydraulic Modeling – Training by Roy Schiff, MMI
River Hydraulic Modeling_Part I – Hydraulics (4.4 mb, pdf)
River Hydraulic Modeling_Part II – Model Steps (3.7 mb, pdf)
River Hydraulic Modeling_Part III – Case Studies (4.5 mb, pdf)
How to Use Depth Grids – Training by Phil Eskeli, NYC DEP
How to Use Depth Grids (2.1 mb, pdf)
FEMA Flood Documents
Ulster County Flood Risk Report
Ashokan Watershed Hydrologic Study
Esopus Watershed Hydraulic Study
Websites
At the Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection, learn about the major hatches of insects in Catskill streams, particularly the Esopus Creek.
The Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring Conference, a gathering of environmental scientists and resource managers, is held every other year in the Ashokan watershed.
The catskillstreams.org website is for streamside landowners and the larger Catskills watershed community with information on projects and activities underway to protect streams.