Roaring Fork Waterhshed Plan

Five graduate students from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) have completed their year-long master’s project to help implement the Roaring Fork Watershed Plan. Amanda Barker, Bethany Hellmann, Anne Kohl, Angela Michalek, and Kathleen McIntyre and their project advisor Professor Julia Wondolleck undertook research to evaluate and recommend potential implementation and education strategies for the Roaring Fork Watershed Plan. The team identified models of watershed-scale governance systems to promote collaborative watershed scale management and identified approaches to public outreach and education in watershed. These efforts will greatly enhance implementation of the watershed plan. The University of Michigan students presented their findings at the Roaring Fork Watershed Collaborative Meeting on January 7, 2011 in Carbondale (View Presentation). The entire report is available for download online at www.roaringfork.org/watershedplan.