Watershed Planner’s Resource Guide

Working at the Watershed Level and Characterizing Your Watershed

• Why Work at the Watershed Level
• Characterizing Your Watershed
• Watershed Stressors, Sources, and Indicators
• A Quick Guide to Developing Watershed Plan to Restore and Protect Our Waters
• Watershed Groups Literature Review
• Glossary of Watershed Terms

Engaging Communities and Forming Partnerships

• Building Watershed Partnerships – a cheat sheet
• Building Successful Partnerships
• Collaborative Watershed Planning – problem solving
• Collaborative Watershed Planning – reaching agreement
• Collaborative Watershed Planning – searching for agreement
• Tools for Effective Outreach
• Stakeholder Matrix

Funding Watershed Projects

• Sustainably Funding Your Watershed Efforts

Setting Goals and Objectives

• Setting Goals and Objectives
• The Logic Model for Program Planning and Evaluation
• Goals of Sample Watershed Plans

Implementing Your Plan

• Implementing Your Plan
• Funding Technical & Peer Support

Nine Elements Plan

• 9-Element Plan
• A Simplified Guide to Writing Watershed Restoration Plans

Sample Watershed Plans

• Black Creek Watershed Assessment, Monitoring, & Planning
• Bolin Creek – Town of Chapel Hill
• Mattamuskeet Watershed Plan
• Oconaluftee Watershed Plan Development 2010
• Smith Creek Watershed Restoration Plan

Case Studies and Guest Presentations

• Meeting Watershed Goals in Ellerbe Creek 
• Economic Case for Watershed Planning 
• McDowell Creek Watershed Management 
• A 319 Grant in Stokes, Rockingham and Caswell Counties
• NC Coastal Federation watershed planning  
• Little River Watershed Restoration Project