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.
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
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
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