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  1. Streamside Landowner Guides

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/watershed-management/streamside-landowner-guides

    Streamside Landowner Guides Background These online guides were created as a result of interviews ... objectives is a series of practices streamside landowners can take to achieve this objective and maintain ... conducted with 24 streamside landowners in two urbanizing watersheds in central Ohio. The purpose of this ...

  2. Mental Models

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models

    was used to understand how streamside landowners and students' understanding of streams and ... identifying factors that are most influential on streamside landowner decision-making and reviews implications ... This webinar was offered in December of 2010, the second in the series "Research to Practice ...

  3. Suburban

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans/suburban

    is a problem that suburban streamside landowners are concerned about. In some cases (especially in ... older neighborhoods) erosion was so severe that streamside landowners were concerned about it ... important step suburban streamside landowners can take to protect the health of their family and the ...

  4. Stream Buffers

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans/stream-buffers

    Conservation District, stream buffers are one of the most cost effective practices suburban landowners can ... Safety and Emergency Management Homeowners Guide to Streamside Gardening Although created for streamside ... homeowners in Oregon, this colorful nine page guide offers plenty of practical guidance for creating a now ...

  5. Rural Residential

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans/rural

    Reduce maintenance time Rural residential landowners mentioned that they were spending a lot of ... time and energy maintaining their streamside property through removal of log jams and vegetation from ... in and around their stream, and mowing in and around streamside areas.  According to stream ...

  6. Agricultural

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans-0

    Financial security We spoke with a few agricultural landowners who were retired and are no longer ... to put a conservation easement on some of their streamside property and enroll some in a conservation ... continue to be productive.  These farmers were interested in practices that could help them maintain ...

  7. Low-impact Lawn Care

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans/low-impact-lawns

    describes a number of practices streamside landowners can use to protect the environment and promote ... Many of the landowners we spoke with were concerned with lowering the impact their lawn care had ... lawn care utilizes practices like soil testing, water conservation, careful cultural practices and ...

  8. OSU Extension Factsheets

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/best-practices/osu-extension-factsheets

    knowledge of best management practices, and for educational, technical and regulatory agency personnel who ... a summary table to assist managers select best management practices to reduce those impacts. Coping with ... United States are included. This fact sheet is intended for farmers and landowners who have a basic ...

  9. Paint Creek Watershed Project

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/groups/paint-creek-watershed-project

    practices and education. The Project provides cost share to landowners and a multitude of education ... together in the Paint Creek Watershed to improve the water quality and management through best management ...

  10. Backyard Conservation

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/basic-stream-and-watershed-ecology-lesson-plans/backyard-conservation

    Many of the landowners we interviewed enjoyed viewing wildlife in and around the stream on their ... to a suite of practices (e.g., planting trees) that suburban homeowners can implement to provide ... habitat for wildlife, beautify their yard, and protect stream quality. Benefits Many of the practices that ...

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