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La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership: Organizing for Success

La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership: Organizing for Success. Dan Moorehouse & Jeff Boeckler. INGREDIENTS for a PLAN. Outreach to community Diversity Organize Opinion Survey Technical committee Put the science together. COMMUNITY OUTREACH. Watershed Surveys. Watershed Opinion Survey

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La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership: Organizing for Success

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  1. La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership:Organizing for Success Dan Moorehouse & Jeff Boeckler

  2. INGREDIENTS for a PLAN • Outreach to community • Diversity • Organize • Opinion Survey • Technical committee • Put the science together

  3. COMMUNITY OUTREACH

  4. Watershed Surveys • Watershed Opinion Survey • Focus Groups • Landowner Survey • Local Environmental Educator Survey

  5. Watershed Bus Tour

  6. Features: • Mostly rural • Pop ≈ 68,000 • Historically • ≈ 50% Prairie • ≈ 50% Forest • 6th largest tributary to the Illinois River

  7. Citizen Science

  8. THE PLAN Community Involvement Technical Committee (Science) Landowner Survey Watershed Opinion Survey Environmental Educator Survey Landowner education Goal Development Willing Landowners Publicity Partner Organizations Partnership Formation

  9. Putting the plan into action Money People Projects Ideas Implement

  10. FOREST GAP RESTORATION PROJECT

  11. Projects with other Organizations • Problem – Soil Erosion • Getting funds to landowners to install BMP’s • Partners – LMREP, SWCD, and WIU • Funding • C2000, IEPA 319

  12. Introduction • Organizing for Success • La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership • Success stories and why • Challenges and resources • Current Projects • 319, CREP • Watershed Planning • Process • Project Example: Putting the plan into action

  13. La Moine River Watershed Management Plan • Issues and concerns • Identified through a series of meetings in the watershed • Identified water quality impairments and other watershed problems • Prioritized concerns that the partnership will address • Goals, Objectives, Strategies, Action Items • The who, what, and how of the plan • Developed out of issues and concerns identified by the data and stakeholder meetings • Physical and biological resource inventory • For each of the 62 subwatersheds, collected and analyzed all data pertaining to a particular sub basin

  14. La Moine River Watershed Management Plan • Social Inventory • Conducted resident survey, teacher survey, and willing landowner survey • Collected other demographic data such as % households • Priority subwatersheds • The where • Identified priority watersheds

  15. La Moine River Watershed Management Plan • Identified Best Management Practices or implementation strategies • Location, type, and load reductions for each and every possible BMP • Location of sites in need of protection • Location of high quality areas

  16. Best Management Practices:Pollutant Load Reduction Model • In priority restoration, water quality, and erosion subwatersheds: • Digitized the location and extent of potential BMP’s • Buffer strips, filter strips, grass waterways, dry dams, wetlands, forest restoration, streambank stabilization, and prairie restoration

  17. Best Management Practices:Pollutant Load Reduction Model • Purpose • To identify specific projects and project locations and to quantify anticipated environmental benefits • To provide direction and options for focusing project implementation in areas where it will have the most benefit • To match areas of stakeholder concern with actual locations on-the-ground

  18. Best Management Practices:Pollutant Load Reduction Model • Limitations • Limited to a selection of BMP’s where literature sited removal efficiencies • Pollutant loads based on averages and estimates (but better than nothing) • I tried to use the most recent and most reliable data • Based on interpreting aerial photos • Actual locations and current site conditions may or may not warrant the particular BMP

  19. Putting the Plan Into Action • Project Example: Livestock Management Project: • Identified “Willing Landowners” located in priority subwatersheds and those sites where BMP’s would have the highest load reductions • Contacted landowners and arranged site visit • Evaluated site and drafted project scope • Verified that the primary stakeholder concerns and year one objectives we met by project • Identified funding programs and drafted grant application

  20. Putting the Plan Into Action • Project Example: Livestock Management Project: • Livestock fencing, crossings, pasture management, watering system, wetland and riparian zone restoration, streambank stabilization, upland erosion control, modeling • Funding sources: NRCS EQIP, SSRP, C2000, Trees Forever

  21. Questions / Comments?

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