Watershed Management
Overview
FEATURED INITIATIVES
Social Indicators for Nonpoint Source (NPS) Management
Effective management of NPS water pollution requires addressing both environmental conditions and the choices people make that can have an impact on the environment. Social indicators for NPS management provide information about awareness, attitudes, constraints, capacity, and behaviors that are expected to lead to water quality improvement and protection. By measuring these
indicators over time, water quality managers can target their project activities and assess whether their projects are accomplishing changes expected to improve and protect water quality. Read more...
Expanding Freshwater Estuary Research and Education in the Great Lakes Region
The National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) System is a nation-wide network of protected coastal estuaries that are designated and supported through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NERR program integrates research, outreach, and stewardship activities related to estuary resources, including Great Lakes freshwater estuary resources. NERR sites represent a partnership between federal and state governments that often leverage substantial additional resources. Read more...
Resources
Documents
The program provides shoreland property owners, the landscape and nursery industry, natural resource professionals, realtors, developers and local government agencies with workshops, hands-on field experience, educational materials, and research and demonstration sites to help them restore and maintain shoreland ecosystems. For more information, please visit:
Shoreland Management Resource Guide
http://www.extension.umn.edu/shoreland Improving Stormwater Management in the Great Lakes Region
This initiative is responsible for the development and implementation of a system of web-based tools that will increase the capacity of local communities, regulatory agencies, and others to collect, store, view, query, manipulate, analyze, and mine spatially referenced data on stormwater best management practices. For more information, please visit: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/regionalwaterquality/flagships/stormwater
http://www.iwr.msu.edu/dw/ Extraordinary People Making an Extraordinary Difference
This project uses multi-state video conferences with local facilitated meetings, a website, and watershed leadership trainings to share the stories of decision makers who have improved their communities and watershed by linking land use and watershed planning. Website available at http://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/ep/ Indiana's Watershed Leadership Academy
The Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy educates watershed coordinators, teachers, volunteers, engineers, state and federal agency staff, non-profit organizations, and others to lead watershed efforts that improve water quality in Indiana. Website available at http://engineering.purdue.edu/watersheds/. The Wisconsin Basin Education Initiative
The Wisconsin Basin Education Initiative involves a team of 15 University of Wisconsin-Extension Basin Educators located throughout Wisconsin in areas coinciding with the state’s major river and Great Lakes basins. The Initiative delivers research-based information and promotes cooperation and communication among the numerous agencies and organizations active in protecting Wisconsin’s water and land resources. Visit this program at Basin Initiative Website. Water Outreach Education - University of Wisconsin
Research-based information on target audiences of strategic interest to water educators and resources for water educators (e.g., program planning, evaluation, Best Education practices, strategies). Further information available at http://wateroutreach.uwex.edu Digital Watersheds - Michigan State
Watersheds mapped at 8-digit scale will be refined to 11-digit. Further information available at http://www.iwr.msu.edu/dw/ Ohio Watershed Academy
The Ohio Watershed Academy (OWA) is a professional-development course designed to help you develop and execute watershed action plans that involve, excite, and commit your community. OWA includes web-based lessons and in-person meetings with peers and instructors and is typically offered once a year. Further information available at http://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/owa/ USEPA & Tetra Tech Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters
This draft handbook is intended to help communities, watershed organizations, and state, local, tribal and federal environmental agencies develop and implement watershed plans to meet water quality standards and protect water resources. Further information available at http://www.epa.gov/nps/watershed_handbook/
