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The Citizen Limnologist

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Big Picture

http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/macarthur/ecofutures2_files/frame.htm
Steve Carpenter's 2001 address to the Ecological Society of America, on the occasion of his presentation of the MacArthur lecture, "Ecological Futures: Building an Ecology of the Long Now." This is a great summery of the complexities of water quality management!

Lake Management

http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu
This site provides a wealth of information about Florida lakes and limnology in general. Florida Lakewatch is a particularly good example of an organization that involves the public in lake management. Florida Lakewatch is a volunteer citizen, lake-monitoring program that facilitates "hands-on" citizen participation in the management of Florida lakes through monthly monitoring activities.

Restoration

The National Academies Press
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/1807.html
The website is for the 1992 U.S. National Research Council Committee on Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems—Science, Technology, and Public Safety.