When working on riparian issues, employ multiple interactions and a mix of many extension methods to offer opportunities for diverse information and ideas and methods of providing them, and to meet individualized learning needs. Methods may include presentations, field days, workshops, individual landowner visits, riparian health inventories and reports, written materials, technical advice, and web site information on riparian areas and grazing management. Continue reading →
Audience: Government agency/University extension professionals 
Planners and outreach educators who work for government or a land grant university and who may lead water-related outreach initiatives with groups
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Ambrose, N. E., Fitch, L., & Bateman, N. G. (2006) Finding 4
Participating as part of community and watershed groups is more likely to lead to learning new information and making management changes. Continue reading →
Ambrose, N. E., Fitch, L., & Bateman, N. G. (2006) Finding 5
To help landowners learn new information, about riparian areas, landowners prefer that staff characteristics include knowledge about riparian management and understanding of the practicalities of living and working near riparian areas. Continue reading →
Bidwell, R. D., & Ryan, C. M. (2006) Finding 1
To assure that watershed groups can play a valuable substantive role in states’ watershed management programs, encourage and maintain heterogeneous participation in watershed partnerships as they work through assessment, planning or day-to-day operations of the partnership, wrestle with internal differences, and establish new collective goals and strategies to achieve them. Continue reading →
Bidwell, R. D., & Ryan, C. M. (2006) Finding 2
To assure that watershed groups can play a valuable substantive role in states’ watershed management programs, encourage active recruiting to include a variety of perspectives. As collaborative policies are developed, sponsors must strike a balance to achieve an appropriate balance of participants to address each concern. Continue reading →
Bidwell, R. D., & Ryan, C. M. (2006) Finding 3
Explicitly recognize the implications of organizational affiliation when designingpolicies that foster collaboration in watersheds. Organizational culture and preexisting constituent relationships may dictate definitions of the problem and the range of preferred alternatives in agency-affiliated partnerships. Continue reading →
Henriksen, H. J., Rasmussen, P., Brandt, G., Von Buelow, D., & Jensen, F. V. (2007) Finding 3
Bayesian Belief Network decision support systems are most effectively used as part of a participatory process. It is imperative to get active involvement of stakeholders in this process for a proper construction of variables, selection of states, identification of links, etc. Continue reading →
Hibbard, M., & Lurie, S. (2006) Finding 2
Investigate watershed council community involvement characteristics to promote effective engagement:
- involvement with other organizations;
- involvement at the local level (with government, private sector, and nonprofit organizations);
- regional collaboration.
Hibbard, M., & Lurie, S. (2006) Finding 3
Build watershed council ability to:
- to bring people together to learn about watershed health and to learn to dialog in new ways;
- build trust;
- identify win-win and creative solutions
Henriksen, H. J., Rasmussen, P., Brandt, G., Von Buelow, D., & Jensen, F. V. (2007) Finding 1
The use of Bayesian Belief Network decision support systems for groundwater management requires full involvement of stake holders during the inplementation phase. Bayesian Belief Network decision support systems organise the body of knowledge in any given area by mapping out cause-and-effect relationships among key variables and encoding them with numbers that represent the extent to which one variable is likely to affect another. Continue reading →
