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SWCD Partnership Projects Opportunities for Engagement, Consensus and Execution

Nicole Bernd District Manager

Partnerships are complex vehicles for delivering practical solutions to social and community issues.

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Partnerships

SAND HILL RIVER ROCK RIFFLE PROJECT

Partners:

• Sand Hill Watershed District
• Funding/Engineering (Houston

Engineering)

• DNR Ecological Resources
• Permitting/Funding (Lessard-Sams Outdoor

Heritage Fund)

• US Army Corp of Engineers
• Funding/Permitting
• Board of Water and Soil Resources
• Funding (Clean Water Legacy Fund)
• West Polk SWCD
• Project Manager/Grant Awardee/Permitting

RED LAKE WATERSHED PROJECT 134, POLK COUNTY DITCH 63

Partners:

• Red Lake Watershed District
• Funding/Permitting
• Board of Water and Soil Resources
• Funding (Clean Water Legacy Fund)
• Landowner
• West Polk SWCD
• Project Manager/Grant Awardee/Permitting
• Red River

Valley Conservation Service Area Engineering

BURNHAM CREEK WATERSHED RESTORATION PROJECT

Partners:

• Red Lake Watershed District
• Funding
• DNR Ecological Resources
• Funding/Permitting
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Funding
• US Army Corp of Engineers
• Permitting
• Natural Resource Conservation Service
• Board of Water and Soil Resources
• Funding (Clean Water Legacy Fund)
• West Polk SWCD
• Project Manager/Grant Awardee/Permitting
• Red River

Valley Conservation Service Area Engineering

Partnerships are complex vehicles for delivering practical solutions to social and community issues.

(strenghtingnonprofits.org)

Courtesy of ThoughtCo./Pinteres t

Partnerships

EXPECTATIONS

• Natural resources professionals work in a variety of fields that are focused on

conserving and protecting waterways, oceans, soil and wildlife. They are often involved in management and policy development for sustainable use and harvesting to ensure that natural resources are available for future

• generations. (Learn.org)
• Conserving and using natural resources in a balanced manner that provides

environmental and public health, recreational and economic benefit is one of the largest challenges state lawmakers face. (ncls.org)

Natu tural R Resou

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Counties SWCD Watershed Districts USFWS DNR BWSR TNC Cities Consultants USACE MPCA Legislature USDA Universities Stakeholders MDA MDH Environmental Economic Benefit Recreational Public Health Communities

Engagement Consensus

Is it easy to engage? Is there common interest/concern? Is it there always100% agreement/participation? What to do with Nay-Sayers? How to keep the momentum? Are you herding cats!?

Implement

(Execution)

THANK YOU

ABSTRACT

As professionals, we are expected to utilize a range of networks to implement economically and environmentally successful projects which meet not just our own mission, but those of our partners as well. The definition of “natural resources” may have many interpretations which can be as diverse as fluvial geomorphology on a section of stream to who to call to get a skunk out of an outhouse. This connation with varied mission statements greatly influence on-the-ground benefits and may be highly dependent upon interpretation of “natural resources “encountered within any project goal. The challenges of interpretation and consequent alignment of partners’ goals are engagement, consensus and execution. Once these goals are met it will provide a competitive advantage when seeking funding to implement the management strategies that hold the same belief or mission of preserving, restoring, protecting and enhancing our natural resources. This session structure will be interactive by encouraging conversation of success stories, examples, questions, and scenarios.