The importance of headwater streams has become increasingly recognized, as have the programs and resources to support their protection over the last decade.  The following is a list of links to headwater stream programs, projects and resources.

• Headwater Streams: Implications for Conservation and Management (2005) 

• Headwater Streams and Tiered Aquatic Life (2012)
  

• EPA Headwater Streams (2011)

• Headwater Stream Index 

• Ohio EPA Headwater Streams Resources
  

The Importance and Benefits of Primary Headwater Streams

Ohio EPA’s Primary Headwater Stream Project: Key Findings 

• North Carolina Headwater Streams Spatial Dataset Development
  

• Corps Savannah District SOP, Headwater
  

• EPA Indicators and Associated Field Methods (2006)

Manual that describes indicators and associated field methods for characterizing flow permanence (ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial) of headwater streams.