Watershed Initiatives, LLC, and Paul Hoobyar facilitate decision-making in the development of public policy for domestic water supplies, industrial and municipal water uses, salmon and watershed restoration, agricultural water use, and other natural resource management issues.

Klamath Basin: Metadata Inventory Project
The Klamath Basin: Metadata Inventory Project report has now been posted to the Watersheds.com site (March 6, 2010).
View the case study.
Click here to download the entire report in PDF format.
Click here to view an interactive map of the Klamath Basin Metadata Inventory Project.

The Challenge
News headlines tell us every day that water quality and watershed health are important for:

• domestic water supplies
• salmon restoration
• industrial and municipal water uses
• agricultural uses

Stakeholder involvement is expanding as water quality and watershed management issues become more complex. Citizens, businesses, property owners, and scientists are more involved in developing water quality and watershed management strategies.

Agreement on such strategies, and developing scientifically credible solutions, are both difficult and essential. When groups are searching for new outcomes, a third-party professional who is well-versed in the history, evolution and current status of the issues, and who is a skilled facilitator/mediator, can make the difference between success and failure.

The Solution
Watershed Initiatives has specialized in facilitating and mediating agreements between interested parties, agencies, scientific groups and public constituencies wrestling with natural resource and watershed issues since 1996. We have also helped groups develop strategic plans and manage large restoration projects.

What we can do for your group or business:
Facilitate group decision making: Design and facilitate a group decision-making process, or facilitate large, public policy forums, based on the outcomes you or your group want to achieve.

Mediate contentious natural resource issues for multi-stakeholder and representational groups having difficulty finding agreement.

Educate: Design and execute educational forums that bring resource professionals, agency representatives and citizens with experience to your group or business to learn more about the challenges faced in watershed management and effective approaches to restoration.

Strategic Planning: For groups, agencies, businesses and governmental bodies wanting to develop strategies for more effective resource management, we can lead you through a planning process that identifies achievable goals and the methods you and your staff or stakeholder group can use to achieve these goals.

Project Management: Watershed Initiatives has managed watershed restoration projects involving the U.S. Forest Service, private industrial timber land managers, local watershed councils, state resource agencies and public interest groups. Through strong facilitation and communication, the development and tracking of participant work plans, and the establishment and monitoring of benchmarks to assess project success, we have helped groups succeed in developing scientifically credible restoration projects.

Welcome to Watershed Initiatives
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