Community-Based Watershed Management, March 2012, Juneau Alaska. Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition

1. Cook Inletkeeper
• Nonprofit organization formed
in 1995
• Mission: Protect the Cook Inlet
watershed and the life it sustains
• 9 staff, contractors, volunteers,
members
• Offices in Homer and Anchorage

2. Lower Kenai Peninsula
Watershed Health Project
• Five year project to inventory
baseline water quality in four lower
Kenai Peninsula salmon streams in
response to community concerns
• Two strong partners with discreet
roles
• Community support through land
owner access and field help

3. CEMP Partnership
of Southcentral Alaska
• CEMP: Citizens’ Environmental
Monitoring Program was designed to
actively engage citizen volunteers in the
collection and distribution of important
habitat and water quality data.
• The Partnership is made up of watershed-
based organizations following a common
Quality Management Plan (QMP).
• Each organization has its own QAPP and QMP
local volunteers but the Partnership
comes together annually for training and
discussion.

4. Stream Temperature
Monitoring Network
• Collect 5-year water temperature
data sets in Cook Inlet salmon
streams.
• Identify watershed characteristics
with the greatest potential to buffer
stream temperatures from climate
and land-use change
• The Network is made up of Tribal,
federal, state and local partners
with project coordination by Cook
Inletkeeper.

5. The Nature Conservancy of Alaska
Kenai Watershed Forum
Wasilla Soil and Water Conservation District
Upper Su Soil and Water Conservation District
Anchorage Waterways Council
Aquatic Restoration and Research Institute
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
National Park Service
U.S. Forest Service
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Native Village of Tyonek
Seldovia Village Tribe
Nanwalek Traditional Council
The Wildlifers
Denali Trekking Company
Community volunteers