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The Good Roads, Clear Creeks program is designed to assist landowners in identifying, prioritizing, and (where possible) repairing potential sediment sources in a watershed context. Participating landowners receive detailed information on potential problems on their own lands as well as an overview of their home sub-basins.
A training program in the Star Worksheet protocol for up to twenty watershed restorationists will occur early next year with the assistance of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and state agencies. We will be requesting applicants for this training in the near future.
The MRC seeks to provide information and community outreach to unite diverse landowners and associations within the watershed. Our programs include:
- A resource center that provides residents and land managers with the most current available information on local ecological systems, land use history, and best land management practices.
- A reforestation program that has planted over 300,000 native trees, at no cost to landowners, on previously forested lands.
- An environmental education program that works with the public schools within the watershed to produce an annual Watershed Week and to coordinate and assist in the inclusion of the Adopt-a-Watershed curriculum throughout the school year.
- A Geographic Information System program that provides computer mapping services to residents and other non-profit groups, and maintains up-to-date graphics on many aspects of watershed-wide conditions in the form of maps and other digital files.
- A Forest Practices review program that participates in the THP public comment process within the watershed and informs residents about forest management practices.
Resource Center hours are 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Tuesday-Thursday, or by appointment.