California Watershed Management Forums
#3 - Shaping a Robust, Collaborative Framework
February 2, 2000
Agenda
9:00 a.m. Introductory Comments: Dennis Pendleton, U.C. Davis
9:05
a.m. Overviews:
State Budget Proposals for Watersheds - Maria Rea, Resources
Agency
Developing a Watershed Network - Martha Davis, Californians
& the Land
Today’s Procedures - Sari Sommarstrom, Watershed Management Council
9:30 a.m. Small Group Session #1: 4 concurrent sessions & topics
10:30 a.m. Break
10:50 a.m. Small Group Session #2: 4 concurrent sessions & topics
11:50 a.m. Lunch
12:50 p.m. Small Group Session #3: 4 concurrent sessions & topics
1:50 p.m. Small Group Session #4: 4 concurrent sessions & topics
2:50 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Summary of Small Group Session Results
4:15 p.m. Adjourn
I. Principles
Various watershed principles are in circulation: CBC, CALFED, WPRC, WMI, Sierra Nevada Alliance, and For the Sake of the Salmon. We’ll take a look at these and see which ones we agree with, don’t agree with, and offer suggestions for better language if needed.
II. Definitions of Watershed, Watershed Management, and Watershed Groups / & Watershed Scale
A. Rising to the challenge to come up with a workable and supportable definition of these terms is the first task. Some sample definitions will be provided as a place to begin word-smithing.
B. This issue has 2 parts: the political and technical scales. What are the relations and divisions among state, regional, and local scales of watershed groups? How do we deal with nested basins? Is there an ideal watershed scale for the state to support groups in? What about the level of data being collected at each scale?
C. What are the goals of watershed management on a statewide basis?
III. Accountability and Governance
A continuation of the lively debates begun in Forum #2. Review the Summary notes from that discussion and pursue the topics & principles that needed more exploration yet aren’t being covered in the other three sessions. What lessons can be learned from the three state experiences we heard about in Forum #1?
IV. Integration of Watershed Approaches
We have inclusive and exclusive watershed groups as well as those in advisory
and independent roles. We have voluntary groups doing voluntary plans but in
a regulatory environment. How do we set up a framework to address where these
various approaches all fit together? What are reasonable expectations for them
to accomplish? Does the State provide clear direction to support collaborative
partnerships to restore California’s watersheds?