New Tools to Measure Environmental Benefits of Watershed Restoration
October 14, 2015 - Portland OR USThe Freshwater Trust
danielle@thefreshwatertrust.org
Phone:5032229091
Join The Freshwater Trust to explore new tools to measure and track environmental benefits from various watershed conservation and restoration projects. The main focus will be the StreamBank® BasinScout suite of tools, which are used to coarsely survey large landscapes and watersheds to estimate the potential for different types of environmental benefits and to prioritize restoration actions. This informative webinar will cover: • How to target restoration efforts and farm management practices toward properties and actions that will yield the greatest environmental results • How to visualize watershed data to create a restoration plan and set and track towards goals • Inputs into the tools, including topographic and hydrographic data, tax-lot boundaries, LiDAR and aerial photography • Outputs from the tools, including maps of prioritized sites and estimated benefits We will provide an in-depth example of how BasinScout was deployed to underpin a phosphorus trading feasibility analysis in a Lower Boise River subwatershed to meet compliance goals for a regulated wastewater facility, and also how the BasinScout methodology was applied to a groundwater budgeting and trading prototype in the Salinas basin. Following this discussion, there will be brief examples of how watershed-scale tools can be applied to source water protection, stormwater, corporate sustainability, and agricultural supply chain programs. Additional time will be allotted for a Q&A.