Learn More About Guide		Publication of A Guide for Understanding Rivers and Watersheds Press Release-For Immediate Release Education/Environment/Outdoors/Water Date: 12-30-02 Contact: Savannah Barnes, Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) 406-994-1913 sbarnes@montana.edu Title: A Guide for Understanding Rivers and Watersheds Discover a Watershed: The Watershed Manager Educators Guide (written and published by Project WET-Water Education for Teachers, 2002, ISBN 1-888631-11-2, $23.95) contains 19 science-based, multidisciplinary activities that teach what a watershed is, how it works, and why watershed management is up to all of us. Although the guide targets K-12 educators and students, anyone interested in learning or teaching about watersheds will find this curriculum a useful key to watershed concepts, data, terminology, maps, photos, and illustrations. The goal of The Watershed Manager Educators Guide is to help people of all ages understand rivers, watersheds, and associated issues from science and education perspectives. Actions affecting land and water resources happen every day in homes, offices, farms, industries, reservoirs, mountains, prairies, deserts, and deltas. This book demonstrates the common elements and issues of watersheds and guides readers to increased awareness of and participation in their watershed. Watershed boundaries are set by nature, and cross state and national borders. Understanding how small watersheds fit within large watersheds, and that a watershed is the land mass drained by a river, can be difficult without seeing the whole picture. The Watershed Manager Educators Guide comes with a full-color wall map that is the first to use data provided by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to create an unbroken image of the continent's watersheds and illustrate the interdependence of all water users. The map is also sold separately. This is the third book in Project WET's Discover a Watershed Series. Prior publications include The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo (available in English and Spanish) and The Everglades. Works in progress cover the Colorado, Missouri, and Columbia Watersheds. Each educators guide is complemented by an outreach program, a 16-page KIDS (Kids In Discovery Series) activity booklet, and a network of support services. International Project WET is an award-winning nonprofit science, natural resources, and heritage education program and publisher located in Bozeman, Montana, on the campus of MSU. For more information or to order materials, go to www.projectwet.org, or call toll free 1-866-337-5486.