Step 5: Implement Watershed Plan (cont.)

Conduct Outreach Activities
Ongoing communication with the public is an essential component of successful plans. Keeping the community in which you are working both informed and involved will generate support in many forms. The more people who are educated about what’s happening in the watershed, the more people who will be likely to want to donate the time, services, money, knowledge, personal connections....all the things that keep programs running and successful, not just in reaching short-term goals, but successful in the long run. To ensure that support for the watershed project continues, consider holding events that target specific segments of the community. Hold a watershed week and hit a different audience each day...turn your work into community fun. The plan is already important to you and your team, but making it important to the rest of the people who will bear some role in its implementation is what will make the difference.