Programs

Klamath Watershed Partnership Mission

To conserve, enhance and restore the natural resources of the Klamath Basin, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communities.

Who is the Klamath Watershed Partnership?

The Partnership is a community-based organization that provides watershed education and restoration in the Upper Klamath Basin. A diverse Board of Directors includes members of the Tribal, agricultural and conservation communities, as well as representatives of eight local working groups. Together they help direct the activities of the Partnership in ways that sustain, not only the ecosystem, but also local economies.

The Partnership is involved from start to finish in a wide range of large and small voluntary restoration projects throughout the Basin. The project begins when a landowner contacts the Partnership with an interest in restoration work, such as riparian fencing to help reduce stream bank erosion, screening diversions, or a new irrigation system that uses water and power more efficiently. Staff from the Partnership then works closely with them to design a project that fits with their values and also pencils out economically for them. Learn More>





 

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News Updates:

Welcome:

2010 was a productive year for the Klamath Watershed Partnership. Organizationally and operationally, we made some great advances, and we look forward to continuing our progress in support of our mission to conserve, enhance and restore the natural resources of the Klamath Basin, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communties.

KWP has been, and continues to be, involved in the development of a Klamath Tracking and Accounting Program. We view this tool as a way to articulate the benefits of the restoration work that we do, and effectively target the funding we receive, which will allow us to be more efficient in our restoration activities. This program has a long way to go before it is ready for use, but has the potential to be a way to direct restoration funding from a local level.

We continue to work closely with our partners, communicating regularly with our agency and technical partners and the landowners that are the most important piece of the restoration puzzle.

The backbone of the Klamath Watershed Partnership, our restoration program, continues to produce results that we are all proud of. Our work with landowners to improve the state of the natural resources we all depend on, while ensuring long-term sustainability for farming and ranching operations and communities, provides benefits for the entire Klamath Basin. A review of our restoration program work for 2010 can be found in the 2010 Annual Report>.

We will be updating our strategic plan over the next several months, to help us focus our efforts where they will be most useful. The Board of Directors and staff will b examining our organizational priorities, and developing a plan with both short and long-term goals. This is one of the many examples of why being involved in the leadership of this organization is important. Leadership must come from a grass roots level, and our leadership only works if we have broad based involvement.

Our job at the Klamath Watershed Partnership, and for everyone in the Klamath Basin, is to look out for the ecosystem. All the parts of an ecosystem must be healthy for the ecosystem as a whole to be healthy. People and communities are an important part of our ecosystem. In order for us to move forward in the Klamath Basin, we must have direction from grassroots level. There are solutions to our collective challenges, and together we can ferret those solutions out, in ways that are acceptable to all of us. We are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities a new year presents.

Best, Nathan Jackson, Executive Director