Large Watershed Collaborative Cases

Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee demonstrates partnerships between multiple jurisdictions in an urban setting.

The Applegate Partnership involves industry, conservation groups, natural resource agencies, and residents cooperating to encourage and facilitate the use of natural resource principles that promote ecosystem health and diversity, and contribute to economic and community stability in Oregon's Applegate Valley.

Over 36 partner organizations have joined forces to restore and protect the Conasauga River watershed, in Georgia and Tennessee, asking and answering questions like "what's killing our mussels?"

Henry's Fork Watershed Council illustrates successful collaboration among irrigation, environmental, and tourism interests for the restoration and management of an Idaho watershed.

Nanticoke Watershed Alliance

Potomac Watershed Partnership serves as a model for other large-scale watershed partnerships in both developing a meaningful strategic plan and adopting measurable goals and objectives that can be tracked over time in order to ensure that the group is achieving progress.