Are We Doing Our Best To Restore Watersheds? Lessons from a 10-Year Watershed Restoration Strategy

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Reeve, T. and R. Warren. (2015). Are We Doing Our Best To Restore Watersheds? Lessons from a 10-Year Watershed Restoration Stratefgy. Solutions 6(1): 54-63. https://thesolutionsjournal.com/article/are-we-doing-our-best-to-restore-watersheds-lessons-from-a-10-year-watershed-restoration-strategy/

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Are We Doing Our Best To Restore Watersheds? Lessons from a 10-Year Watershed Restoration Strategy by Todd Reeve and Robert Warren

David Merwin

The Upper Deschutes River in Oregon. The Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, the Deschutes Basin Land Trust, and the Deschutes River Conservancy have partnered with BEF to restore healthy trout and salmon populations.

In Brief For the past decade, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) has explored ways to make community-based watershed restoration more effective. Through the application of an unconventional, 10-year funding strategy, BEF has identified important challenges and has also explored solutions that may increase the scale of impact produced by watershed restoration initiatives.

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