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Watershed Action Plan
Complete Draft
Dan Cloak Environmental Consulting
April 3, 2003
Outline
Update●Review Action Plan process.●Review events since August
2002.●What’s new in the complete
draft?
Outline
Update●Review Action Plan process.●Review events since August.●What’s new in the complete
draft?Evaluate
●Outputs●Outcomes
Update
Jan. – March 2002
General Features
2001
ActionWorksheet
s
June 2002
Draft Chaps. 1 –
9
August 2002
Draft Chap. 10
“Strategic Policy Objectives”
WMI’s Role & Future
Next Steps for the WMI
Target Audience & Length
Objectives
Contents
Since August 2002
Regulatory Executive Forum Structure & Staffing Prioritization Exercise San Jose/District Joint Meeting Action Plan Revisions
Major Changes in This Draft
Expanded Chapter 1 to describe process used to create the Plan.
Moved “Strategic Objectives” and “Next Steps” to Chapters 3 – 9
Focused Chapter 10 on WMI role
Incorporated comments Notes & bibliography Added information resources Created an Executive Summary Graphics & layout
Evaluation
Output:●Did we do what we said we’d
do?Outcome:
●Will we achieve our aims?
Output Outcome
Evaluating Outputs
Primary ObjectivesAdditional ObjectivesTarget AudiencesCharacteristicsContentsOutline
WAPTAG Achievements
Stayed focused on objectives
Met commitments & deadlines
Delivered more than expected
Maintained our sense of humor
Desired Outcomes
How can we use the Watershed Action Plan to preserve and enhance Basin watersheds?
Strategic Objectives
Incorporate the Vision
into General Plans &
Specific Area Plans
Strategic Objectives
Drainage systems that
detain or retain runoff.
Strategic Objectives
Integrated planning of
floodplains & riparian corridors
Strategic Objectives
Integrated Water
Resources Planning
Strategic Objectives
Habitat Conservation
Planning
Strategic Objectives
Expand the Refuge
Strategic Objectives
Multi-objective planning and
adaptive management for in-stream projects
& programs
Strategic Objectives
Better assessments,
TMDLs & discharge permits
Action Plan Structure
IntroductionOverview to Narratives
●Vision●Natural & social history●Regulatory mandates &
programs●Strategic objectives●Next steps for the WMI
WMI Role
Achieving Strategic Objectives
Objectives Opportunities Implement multi-objective stream restoration projects using adaptive management
Stream Stewardship Plans for the Guadalupe, West Valley, & Lower Peninsula watersheds
Coordinate TMDL & permit requirements to support planning & long-term regulatory stability
Guadalupe Hg TMDL, SFC Sediment TMDL, PBDEs, EDCs, Trash “watch list”
Integrated multi-use planning of floodplains & riparian corridors
Water Resources Protection Collaborative
Protect natural communities and species diversity on a landscape or ecosystem scale.
HCP/NCCP process and planning for DESFBNWR expansion.
WMI Roles
Facilitate stakeholder processes
Bring consensus recommendations to decision-makers
Educate and involve the public
Some Lessons Learned
The process is the plan. Experience of collective learning,
discovery, and problem-solving. Examine political & scientific
facts & uncertainties. Prepare for ongoing
adaptive management. The ways that we learn, as well
as our knowledge, improve with experience.
Summary
The complete draft incorporates stakeholder comments and the results of Core Group discussions.
WAPTAG kept their eye on the ball.
The Action Plan can help the WMI achieve significant results.
Role described in Chapter 10 would require WMI to build capacity.
ConclusionEcosystems are integrated and complex; social, legal, and political systems are also integrated and complex. These systems are in constant change, and change each other.
Successful intervention follows from a common understanding of how our social, political, and natural environments interact.
This Action Plan is one step in the journey toward that common understanding.
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