Rogue River Watershed Council

Engagement - the council uses a variety of strategies to communicate and engage with community members about stream processes, functioning watersheds, resilient communities, and council activities. Engagement strategies include active social media accounts, a regularly updated website, short video productions, and video library, as well as short newsletters (every other month) and lengthier newsletters (biannual). Engagement actions supplement and promote the council's restoration efforts.

Water quality improvement - the council works to address issues that pollute and warm the streams in our region. The council has developed a collaborative water quality improvement program that will help achieve the goal of cleaner water. Specifically, the intent of the program is to address persistent water quality problems that include high temperature, low dissolved oxygen levels, sedimentation, bacteria presence, and nutrient loading. Continued on schedule o. Projects such as side-channel reconnection, streamside rehabilitation, converting from flood to sprinkler irrigation, and reducing stormwater runoff in urban areas provide water quality benefits including decreased stream bank erosion, increased shading, and decreased nutrient and bacteria entering the stream. The council also works with drinking water providers to strategically locate ecological restoration practices and on farm agriculture improvements to benefit source water protection efforts.

Monitoring - the council uses monitoring information to assess actions, guide decisions, determine ecological limiting factors, and measure the success of the council's activities. Currently, the council monitors water quality parameters in bear, little butte, and elk creeks as they relate to wildfire, the upper rogue coho strategic action plan, and a large-scale irrigation system improvement.