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Creeks & Communities:

A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management. Creeks & Communities:. Bear Creek OR 1976. Lots of creeks look like this. We know they can be better. Bear Creek OR 2003. Dixie Creek NV 1989. Why isn’t it happening in more places?.

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Creeks & Communities:

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  1. A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management Creeks & Communities:

  2. Bear Creek OR 1976 Lots of creeks look like this We know they can be better Bear Creek OR 2003

  3. Dixie Creek NV 1989 Why isn’t it happening in more places? Dixie Creek NV 1995

  4. Burro Creek AZ 1981 In part, it’s about having a common understanding of how streams work. And it requires working with people on their lands and their issues. Burro Creek AZ 2000

  5. Lawsuits and regulatory approaches often leave out the people who must implement solutions and who are typically most affected by their management

  6. Creeks & Communities Creeks connect people, science and communities. They must work together and individually for restoration and improvements on a large scale.

  7. Awareness Understanding/ acceptance Adjust Common Purpose Agreements Monitoring ACTIONS

  8. Good Science is Important: and seldom enough • Conflicting Science • “Good Science” changes over time. • Science from somewhere else. • Socio/Political factors important

  9. Our society is literally awash today in data, information & knowledge (science). And yet in many places our creeks are failing to produce the values they offer when healthy. What is often lacking is fully understanding what it all means, and then having the wisdom to apply what we know in ways that best meets the needs of people and the ecosystem. (Dee Hock 1999)

  10. Useful Scientific Information • Understandable to stakeholders with a range of scientific backgrounds • Seen by all parties as legitimate and valid (believable), relevant and trusted • Used to identify the costs/benefits and risks/tradeoffs of alternatives, not to make the decision

  11. Creeks & Communities By focusing on stream health, we help to create a common vision of what is possible and what is needed for management and/or restoration

  12. Focus on Function Water Vegetation Soil, Landscape

  13. “Information does not resolve social conflicts, people do.” (Duane 1997)

  14. Working Together for Creeks and Communities • Given that the situation is complex, fraught with conflict and views polarized, how can people work together for common solutions?

  15. If you bring together the right people, in constructive ways, with good information, they will produce: • Better decisions • Improved relationships • Sustainable communities and landscapes

  16. Build Ownership & Commitment

  17. Working Together for Creeks and Communities • Bring affected interests together • Create learning environments, build relationships/trust • Build community information base • Empower people

  18. Working Together for Creeks and Communities • Bring Affected Interests Together • - Has an interest or concern (self-identified) • - May be needed to implement the outcome • - May try to undermine the effort

  19. Working Together for Creeks and Communities Create Learning Environments • Safe atmosphere • Explain basic ecological processes in a way everyone can understand. • Listen to everyone for new possibilities and approaches

  20. Working Together for Creeks and Communities Build community information base • Common vocabulary • Understanding of physical function • Time, risk and cost • Individual and watershed choices

  21. Integrating Science into Collaborative Decision-Making • Joint Fact Finding • Structure the conversation

  22. Convener initiates collaborative process (situation assessment prepared) Convener & stakeholders decide whether to proceed (agree on process) *Figure adapted from Consensus Building Institute, 2002 Parties initiate JFF process to handle scientific & technical complexity Parties generate options, alternatives or packages for mutual gain Parties reach agreement (i.e., recommendations or proposals) Implementation, monitoring & program adaptation to meet objectives Return to any step above as appropriate

  23. Working Together for Creeks and Communities Empower people to Create Change (Community & Individuals) • Improved relationships • Trust • Technical know how and support • Financial support

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