Watershed Monitoring Can Make All the Difference

Are your monitoring efforts producing measurable results or action and how do you know? Whether your monitoring program is 50 years old or brand new, is a state agency implementing the Clean Water Act or a volunteer program monitoring a local stream, our efforts should be relevant. Have you ever evaluated your monitoring program in context with your organizations mission, motivation or needs of volunteers collecting the data or targeted decision maker's information needs? In the first part of this workshop you evaluate your monitoring program for its ability to produce measurable results. You will learn how to design a measurable effort if you have not started monitoring. The second part of this workshop will be sharing of tips and a range of real life examples of citizen action and the difference it made. Each participant will receive a mini-work book and the entire Rocky Mountain Watershed Networks Monitoring and Assessment Design Workbook on CD.

Presenter: Barb Horn, Rocky Mountain Watershed Network and Colorado Div of Wildlife