Announcements and Recent Updates

2010 Ohio Watershed Leaders (OWLs) Workshop

OSU Extension is now accepting registrations for the 2010 Ohio Watershed Leaders Workshop. This annual two-day workshop is open to the public and will be held at Stone Lab, Ohio's premier Lake Erie research facility on Monday, August 30 and Tuesday, August 31. Participants will participate in a science cruise on Lake Erie and learn from some of Ohio's most experienced watershed and water quality specialists. As an added bonus, we will have a presentation by Kristin Stanford who appeared on the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" for her research on the Lake Erie water snake.

Registration Form: 2010-owls-registration.doc

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Buckeye Basins

The Spring 2010 issue of the Buckeye Basins newsletter is now available. Click here to check it out.

Raising Funds for Watersheds: Learning from Others, Learning from Ourselves

As you're probably already well-aware, watershed management can be expensive. This makes fundraising a critical, and yet often difficult and poorly understood, part of watershed management. In light of this, we invite you to join others in sharing an account of a fundraising effort you played a part in. We hope to capture some of the collective wisdom that's been gained through both successes and failures. Please follow the link below to give a brief (approximately 10-minute), instructive account of this effort. Instructive accounts are not always "success stories" in the traditional sense, but rather stories that teach us something helpful. Your participation will be anonymous unless you choose otherwise. Please restrict your story to a fundraising effort that was not related to grant fund-seeking. Complete the survey...

Primer on Climate Change and Implications for Land Use and Watershed Management

New presenations on climate change and implications for watershed professionals. View Material...

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A Plane View of the Landscape: How Aerial Photography Can Enhance Ohio Watersheds

Read more to find out how the aerial perspective has assisted land management efforts, and explore the possibility of using it in your watershed...

When the Rain Falls at Honda: Storm Water BMP in the Darby Creek Watershed

This short article presents a tour of Honda's storm water management initiatives in the Darby Creek watershed. Honda's facility is in a strategic location with much of the water from their 8,200 acre campus draining into the Flat Branch and, eventually, the Big Darby Creek. Read more to learn about these initiates...

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