the interface of community and watershed restoration · questions for you….. what makes watershed...

The Interface of

Community

and Watershed

Restoration

Questions for you….. What makes watershed restoration important in

this region?

What would a healthy, functioning watershed entail for this region?

How could a healthy watershed improve the lives of the residents in your communities?

How does the resiliency of a local community in terms of economics relate to the health of its watersheds?

How could an effective network of restoration activities improve the well being of watershed communities?

Until the 1990’s

The Pine River

was

jurisdictionally,

“no-man’s

land”

PRWIN Board

PRWIN Projects Coordinator

Education & Outreach

Increase Permanent or Semi- Permanent Vegetative Cover

Increase Water Storage on Landscape

Erosion Control Structures

Sufficient Funding

available to implement restoration

Evaluate affect of Restoration Efforts on the

function of the PRW

Understand the Ecologcial History and Threats to

theWatershed

Design Restoration

Projects that are Ecologically

benefical to PRW

Increase Landowner uptake of Ecological Restoration

The Pine River Watershed is a small sub-watershed

•The Pine River and its tributaries drain 19 700 ha of land

•Each stream within the Pine River system has a distance of roughly 26 km from Headwater to Mouth

The Landuse in this watershed is predominantly cash crop agriculture

•Only 7% of the Pine River Watershed remains forested and there are no major wetlands

•Streambank erosion due to undercutting by highflow velocities, lack of vegetated buffers and erosion by cattle were identified as major issues affecting water quality

Since the advent of PRWIN in the year 2000

the following measures have been taken

according to recommendations outlined in

the Pine River Watershed Study

Over 200 000 trees have been planted since 2006

5 cattle crossings have been installed

4 nitrate filters installed

Over 7 kms of cattle exclusion fencing has been built

6 alternative water sources have been provided to livestock

3 Wetland complexes have been created

5 Water and Sediment Control berms

McLarty Environmental Study

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Education and Treeplanting

Day at the McLarty ESA

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Volunteer Tree

Planting:

Intergenerational ,

And Inspirational

Questions for you…. What makes watershed restoration important in

this region?

What would a healthy, functioning watershed entail for this region?

How could a healthy watershed improve the lives of the residents in your communities?

How does the resiliency of a local community in terms of economics relate to the health of its watersheds?

How could an effective network of restoration activities improve the well being of watershed communities?