Curated and created to support your success as a watershed leader
Use the filters below to discover resources designed to help watershed leaders achieve their goals.
Skills for Building Farmer Networks for Conservation
A curriculum to deliver training to farmers to build their confidence and capacities to engage other farmers about conservation and build local networks.
Source: SERA-46
Owner’s Guide to Wells
Resources to help well owners keep their drinking water safe from the Minnesota Department of Health. These can also be helpful examples for other states.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health
Lake Conservation Webinars
Upcoming and archived webinars from the Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership webinar series. It covers a variety of topics related to protecting, rehabilitating, and enhancing sustainable fish habitats in glacial lakes in the Midwest.
Source: Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC) is a multidisciplinary journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy, and perspectives. The journal has two sections: the A Section containing editorials and discussions, and the Research Section containing peer-reviewed research articles. Topics include, but are not limited to, erosion control, watershed management, forestry, agroecology, hydrology, soil science, […]
Source: Soil and Water Conservation Society
Farmmaps
A farmer-to-farmer networking tool providing case studies of Minnesota landowners who have adopted agriculture and forestry practices to improve soil health, the environment, and often the grower/landowners bottom line. Farmmaps provides an online platform for landowners, growers and natural resource professionals interested in learning about new practices, connecting with farmers/landowners with experience with those practices, […]
Source: University of Minnesota
Adopt a River Toolkit
This toolkit will walk you through the steps of organizing a cleanup, as well as the cleanup event itself. It will give you the knowledge you need to have a fun and effective cleanup.
Source: Freshwater
Logic Model Template
The logic model is a framework and a way of thinking that helps practitioners design results-based programs and have data to answer important questions: “What difference are you making? How do you know it? What is the value of your program?” This template is from a course called Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension
Strategic Communications Plan Template
A template for creating a strategic communications plan from the book Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations: Seven Steps to Creating a Successful Plan, Second Edition by Sally J. Patterson and Janel M. Radtke.
Source: Wiley Online Books
Community-Based Social Marketing
Training and resources about how to develop effective community-based social marketing programs that foster sustainable, healthy, and safe behaviors.
Source: McKenzie-Mohr & Associates
Guiding Principles for Tribal-University Collaborations
Key principles for transforming relationships and research within collaborative tribal-university partnerships, with relevance to other partnerships with tribal communities.
Source: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities