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YOUR LAND | YOUR WATER YOUR VOICE

YOUR LAND | YOUR WATER YOUR VOICE. What We Heard at the November 2011 Community Workshops. Community Meeting Locations. Community Workshops. Purpose:

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YOUR LAND | YOUR WATER YOUR VOICE

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  1. YOUR LAND | YOUR WATERYOUR VOICE What We Heard at the November 2011 Community Workshops

  2. Community Meeting Locations

  3. Community Workshops • Purpose: • Share information from the SOW report to increase understanding and awareness of the current conditions and issues that exist in our watersheds • Encourage dialogue on the issues and opportunities facing our watersheds • Provide an overview of the watershed management planning process and allow opportunity for feedback

  4. Who came?

  5. Who came?

  6. Focus Questions • What do you appreciate about this watershed? • What do you appreciate about the place you live? • What are your concerns related to land and water management in our watershed? • What are the major issues facing our watershed? • What are your hopes for a resolution to these issues? • What needs to change to resolve these issues?

  7. What We Heard: Appreciation

  8. Social Biodiversity Landscape Watershed Management, Education, and Action Rural Natural Features and Functions Recreation Water Supply Culture and History Economic

  9. What We Heard: Concerns

  10. Biodiversity Watershed Health Water Quantity Land Management Education, Awareness, and Action Water Quality Wetlands and Riparian Areas Governance and Watershed Management

  11. What We Heard: Hopes

  12. Know Act Care Education, Awareness, Participation and Action Governance and Watershed Management Cooperation and Collaboration Policy and Legislation On-the-ground Action

  13. Next Steps

  14. Watershed Management

  15. Purpose of a comprehensive watershed management plan for the Battle River and Sounding Creek watersheds : • to develop recommendations for policy directions and management practices that lead to the protection, improvement and long-term sustainability of our watersheds’ environmental, social and economic values.

  16. Watershed Management Components

  17. Prioritizing Watershed Management Components

  18. Dotmocracy • Three dots per person • Place your three dots on your top three priorities • Each dot must be placed on a different priority What will be done with this information? • Dotmocracy results will help the WMP Steering Committee to determine a schedule for completion of all watershed management components • Schedule will be based on the dotmocracy results as well as consideration of the relative urgency and potential impact of each component

  19. Questions? Cactus at Big Knife Provincial Park, in the Battle River watershed

  20. Dotmocracy Ranking Surface, ground and source water protection: 33 Point Source Pollution Management: 10 Surface Water Quantity: 12 Ground Water Quantity: 15 Native and invasive species: 10 Environmentally Significant Areas: 12 Fish and Wildlife: 7 Land Use Practices: 27 Wetlands: 12 Riparian Areas: 14 • Our promise to you: These results will be taken back to the WMP Steering Committee and will form the basis of future watershed management initiatives

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