real-time monitoring, integrated adaptive
changing weather patterns and rapid urbaniza-
management, restoration asset management
tion. The Tree for All program’s partners have
systems, and the list goes on. Ultimately, this
made transformative progress regarding water-
required—and will continue to require—proj-
shed health and resiliency. However, there are
ect delivery methods that deliver multiple
always new opportunities to innovate, collabo-
outcomes, including clean water, healthy soil,
rate, and achieve results. The Tree for All story
community engagement, and the ecological
demonstrates that a regulatory obligation can
diversity essential for a resilient and healthy
serve as a catalyst for landscape conservation.
watershed.
It also prompts us to consider the role that landscape conservation plays in the emerging
THE UTILITY OF THE FUTURE?
Utilities of the Future paradigm.
As the utility industry continues our One
vation, scale, and watershed resiliency. They appear to be important topics as we think about
Bruce Roll is the Director of Watershed Management for Clean Water Services and the nonprofit Clean Water Institute in Hillsboro, OR, a founding member of the Intertwine Alliance, and a key developer of the Tree For All Landscape Conservation Program. 23 Winter 2018
paths with concepts like landscape conser-
CLEAN WATER ADVOCATE
Water journey, we find ourselves crossing