What is Stream Management Planning and why should you care? In Colorado, stream management plans have become a directive from the State Water Plan as a method to address water resource challenges on a local scale and allow opportunity for place-based, stakeholder driven solutions. This presentation will discuss how watershed groups and local government, such as County Open Space departments can work together to implement stream and watershed management plans and identify collaborative restoration potential.
Results/Conclusions
Community partnerships improve watershed management and stakeholder buy-in on collaborative restoration projects. Community member inclusion and public input in the planning process can improve long term sustainability of management decisions, and there is an interesting, and powerful, role for nonprofits as liaisons.