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Documents: Focusing Freshwater Efforts in Specific Locations

Documents on How to Strategically Focus Efforts in Specific Locations

  • Watershed-Scale Abatement of Threats to Freshwater Biodiversity: The Nature Conservancy's Sustainable Waters Program (.pdf, 1.0 MB)
    This paper summarizes the goals, methods, and challenges of the Sustainable Waters Program's threat abatement program and provides examples of its adaptive management approach. This paper was published in the Proceedings of the Watershed Environment Federation Conference WATERSHED 2000, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 9-12, 2000. Copyright Water Environment Federation. Used with permission.
     
  • Working with Communities: Building Long-Term Support for Freshwater Conservation (.pdf, 92 kb)
    This is the written proceedings from a workshop convened by The Nature Conservancy for site-based freshwater conservation practitioners in December, 1998. This document provides an overview of tools for assessing communities, community relations skills, techniques or strategies for engaging stakeholders, conflict assessment skills, and tips for communicating messages to stakeholders and community members.
     
  • Developing Strategies to Abate Water Quality Degradation (May 1998, .pdf, 145 kb)
    The target audience for this document is freshwater conservation areae teams and others working in places where polluted run-off and erosion from agricultural practices (and to some degree from residential use and urban activities) threaten the persistence of the full compliment of freshwater species and communities.
     
  • Agricultural Nonpoint Source Threat Abatement: Are We Doing Enough? (.pdf, 908 kb)
    This pdf file includes Powerpoint slides and notes from a presentation given in the workshop "Abating Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution" at The Nature Conservancy's 2000 Conservation Strategies Conference, November 15-17, 2000.
     
  • Developing Strategies to Abate Hydrologic Alteration (April 1998, .pdf, 168 kb)
    The target audience for this document is freshwater conservation area teams and others working in places where flow alterations caused by dams, diversions, and groundwater pumping threaten the persistence of the full compliment of freshwater species and communities.

Documents on Measuring Success and Adaptive Management

  • Ecological Integrity at Freshwater Sites (.pdf, 202 kb)
    This document is based on the content of a workshop help by The Nature Conservancy in July, 1999. It includes an examination of background concepts - adaptive management, functionality, monitoring and indicators - and a primer for adaptive management of freshwater ecosystems. While recognizing the importance of ecological integrity, this primer advocates the conservation of ecosystem “functionality” as a more pragmatic standard for the conservation of biodiversity.
     
  • Monitoring Program Design and Performance Measures (July 1998, .pdf, 77 kb)
    The target audience for this document is FWI site teams and others working to develop effective monitoring plans and performance measures.

Links Related to Agricultural Practices

Links to Information About Groundwater

Links to Information About Wetlands