This Watershed Group Development Guide has been organized into six major topic areas; Leadership, Watershed Group Development, Performance-based Environmental Management, Water Quality and Watersheds, Water Quality, Strategies for Teaching, and Topics of Interest. The topics can be utilized separately, or as a complete curriculum, according to the skill sets and information needs of the participants. Modules 4 and 16 have been included as topics of interest; other related topics could be substituted according to the interests of the group.
Concepts & content
Leadership
Module 2- Helping local champions lead.
Module 3- Citizen leaders and the performance-based management model.
Module 8- Leadership is influence. How can leadership change your watershed?
Module 9 - Neighbor-to-neighbor: farmers share their experiences with the performance based model.
Module 12- Building a culture of conservation.
Module 18- Forming the Watershed Group
Watershed Group Development
Module 2- Helping local champions lead.
Module 3- Citizen leaders and the performance-based management model.
Module 6- Facilitating social and environmental successes in performance-based environmental management.
Module 9- Neighbor-to-neighbor: farmers share their experiences with the performance based model.
Module 12- Building a culture of conservation.
Module 13- Sharing a watershed vision
Module 14- Building a watershed team.
Module 15- Creating a watershed plan.
Module 17- Watershed plan discussion
Module 18- Forming the Watershed Group
Performance-based Environmental Management
Module 5- Measuring water quality.
Module 6- Facilitating social and environmental successes in performance-based environmental management.
Module 10- Using agronomic tools in watershed decision-making.
Module 11- Decision tools- working with leader’s data
Water Quality & Watersheds
Module 1- Knowing your watershed.
Module 7- Mapping your own watershed: the geography, hydrology, and people.
Module 9- Neighbor-to-neighbor: farmers share their experiences with the performance based model.
Module 13- Sharing a watershed vision
Module 14- Building a watershed team.
Module 15- Creating a watershed plan.
Module 17- Watershed plan discussion
Module 18- Forming the Watershed Group
Water monitoring
Module 4- What does the water quality problem look like? To whom is it a problem?
Module 5- Measuring water quality.
Strategies for teaching
Module 19- Evaluating progress
Module 20- Strategies for teaching
Topics of interest
Module 4- What does the water quality problem look like? To whom is it a problem?
Module 16- Residue Management
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