Project Design

ISA EPS team members work with local farmers, other local leaders, and environmental and agricultural experts from the public and private sector to design programs and projects that meet local needs for understanding and addressing resource concerns. Principles of cooperative conservation and locally-led planning, along with assessment and evaluation, adaptive implementation, integration of multiple goals (agronomic, economic, environmental, and social), and leveraging private and public funding sources are used to design programs and projects that suit local conditions and are geared toward performance.

Examples:

Boone River Watershed MRBI Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative

Cooperative Conservation for Watershed Health

Lyons Creek Watershed Project 

Project to Build Science Capacity and Facilitate Dissemination of an Approach to Monitoring (with Agriculture's Clean Water Alliance)