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For UNM Community and Regional Planning, CRP527Presenter/instructor: Rich Schrader
Myths & objectivity in a watershed worldview:
Community-based approaches to watershed planning challenges in
the New West
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Stewardship & Sense of Place
• Stories in culture shape historic use and vision for the future use of land.
• Top-down designs of objective science often ignore community questions about indicators.
• The community-based approach to watershed stewardship and monitoring projects have more staying power if well designed and adapted as community learns.
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
River Source Inc.
Founded in 1996 with grant from McCune and contract w/Dr. William Fleming to help run the NM Watershed Watch program. Rich Schrader is a graduate of the Community & Regional Planning program. Carol Schrader is the company’s only other employee.
Go to: www.riversource.net
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Quality assured volunteer data IS POSSIBLE!
Pennsylvania Watersheds Data System
http://207.140.67.52/default.aspx
• Quality Assurance Program Plans are not uncommon anymore throughout US and increasingly in the west.
• Citizen-science is becoming more than a buzzword. It’s becoming an objective way for people to have converstation and better understand watershed conditions.
• How would this be concept be developed and practiced in multi-cultural New Mexico?
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
So what is a myth and what is objective anymore?
• Community-based approaches to watershed stewardship can appear threatening to the scientific establishment.
• Who is right in choosing what indicators to use for establishing watershed “health”
• What the heck is “health” anyway?
• Oh yeah…..it is both community-based and scientific.
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Stories can accomplish what no other form of communication can – they can get through to our
hearts with a message.
For land conservationists, what matters [is] the relationship between community and the land,
between people and places.
We will need to help create a fundamental change in how our society thinks about and treats land; we will need to nurture the flowering of a new land ethic. Will Rogers in the introduction of The Story Handbook:
Language and storytelling for land conservation (Peter Forbes, 2002, Trust for Public Land publication)
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Purposes for Watershed Plans
Education/Community Inquiry: Scientific understanding & stewardship building efforts through language and culture
Community or Agency Advocacy: To advance values or promote program goals for community or agency.
Regulatory or Legal: To satisfy legal requirements such as ESA, NEPA, CWA.
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Example of Data Use Matrix for Agency and Community interests go to http://rmwn.org/
Watershed Assessment
Study Reason(s) Rocky Mountain Network (2005)
Data Use(s):
IEducation/Community
Inquiry
IICommunity or
Agency Advocacy/Planning
IIIRegulatory/
Legal
A. Condition and Trend Investigation
Assessment A-IGeneral background
information
Assessment A-IIWatershed Management Planning; 305(b) report
N/A
B.ImpactInvestigation
Non Point Source
Assessment B-IEducate community or
students about pollution
Assessment B-IIIdentify impacts for
remediation
Assessment B-IIICWA Violations
Point Source
Assessment B-IVEducate community or
students about pollution
Assessment B-VIdentify impacts for
remediation
Assessment B-VICWA Violations
C. Effectiveness Investigation
Assessment C-IEducate students about effectiveness of BMPs,
restoration projects
Assessment C-IIEvaluation of effectiveness
of BMPs, restoration
N/A
D. Use Support Investigation
Assessment D-ICommunity
or student ed. on impacts
Assessment D-IIWatershed Management Planning; 303(d) report
Assessment D-IIICWA violations
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Plan Purposes Areas of Activity in Landscape Planning (Marsh 1991)
• Environmental Inventory
• Opportunities and constraints – including land suitability analysis
• Hazard Assessment
• Forecasting impacts
• Site selection
• Special environments
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Building Social Network and Shared Language
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Watershed Principles & Complexities
• Everything is connected
• Separation anxiety: How the heck do we tell what is human-caused impact and what is natural?
• Ecosystem =
Bio – Chem - Physical
ConnectionsEPA Rapid Bio Assessment
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Theories in Watershed Problem Solving
Exposure (such as concentration of suspended sediment in a river)
Stress (such as massive erosion)
Response (such a an increase of tolerant insects in the benthic macroinvertibrate community)
After Geoff Dates (River Network) and Karr (??)
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Challenges in Identifying Causes vs. Symptoms
• Soil erosion (cause or symptom)
• Catastrophic fire
• Massive bark beetle infestation and pinyon kill
• Bank failure of a steep slope after a drought
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Multi-metric Indices (Karr 1981) Multi-metric indices as a standard for accurately assessing watershed health. Five activities to make multimetric biological indexes effective.
THIS CAN BE DONE IN COMMUNITY-BASED SETTING
• Classifying environments to define homogeneous sets within or across ecoregions (e.g., streams, lakes, or wetlands; large or small streams; warm-water or cold-water lakes; high- or low-gradient streams).
• Selecting measurable attributes that provide reliable and relevant signals about the biological effects of human activities.
• Developing sampling protocols and designs that ensure that those biological attributes are measured accurately and precisely.
• Devising analytical procedures to extract and understand relevant patterns in those data.
• Communicating the results to citizens and policymakers so that all concerned communities can contribute to environmental policy.
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by River Source, UNM CRP 527
Steps for Creating Successful Watershed Plans
• Understand who is the client and what they need
• Facilitate creation of a profound and meaningful vision (10 year minimum)
• Make it real with milestones in shorter term first, longer-term later in process.
• Develop learning capacity of plan users (shared language & group/institutional commitment)
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If in doubt, Wing – It with care
• We are experimenting with our environment and our culture
• Don’t forget to consider the precautionary principle
Do cows have culture?