Watershed Planning: Designing and facilitating public involvement in the development of watershed plans for Fairfax County, Virginia. These watershed plans will provide an assessment of management and resource needs by defining problems within the watershed and prioritizing appropriate and workable solutions.
Virginia Tech Community DECISIONS: Designed and facilitated stakeholder involvement in the development of a real-time, micro-computer based watershed planning tool by Virginia Tech for the North Fork Shenandoah Watershed.
Community Watershed Forums: Developed a model forum for communities to develop watershed management plans and a guide for forum implementation funded by the Chesapeake Bay Program. The first forum was the Rockfish River Forum held in Nelson County Virginia and the second form was the Anacostia River Forum was held in Washington, D.C. Two additional forums were held in collaboration with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. These projects produced watershed action plans and published a handbook Community Watershed Forums — A Planner’s Guide to allow others to follow and replicate similar processes in their watersheds.
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A Stream Corridor Protection Strategy for Local Governments: This practical guide can help Chesapeake Bay states move toward implementing the many facets of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement such as the goal of 2,010 more miles of forested buffers by 2010 and a goal of locally devised watershed plans to encompass two thirds of the Bay’s drainage basin. Written in collaboration with local governments, the 63-page handbook contains the cumulative wisdom of the many expert reviewers from across the Bay’s watershed and covers stream protection strategies, tools such as stream buffers and zoning overlays and resources for conducting a protection strategy. The handbook was funded by grants from the Land Growth and Stewardship Subcommittee of the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Virginia Environmental Endowment. Printed copies of the handbook are available from our UVA Institute for $8.00 each (shipping included) or $7.00 each for two or more books.
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Elizabeth River Watershed Plan Revision: Helped with a series of stakeholder meetings convened over the course of a year to evaluate existing and continuing problems (environmental, social, political) associated with the restoration of the Elizabeth River.
Loundon County Strategy for Watershed Management: Designed a process modeled on the Virginia Solutions process, convened the large stakeholder “Solutions Team,” and successfully facilitated the development of a consensus strategy for the Loudoun watershed planning effort.
Watershed Planning Primer: Wrote the Virginia guide to watershed planning for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.