Learn from your peers about their success and failures before starting a new project. Peer learning can be a great way to figure out what works with your audience and what doesn’t. Please submit your successes and failures when starting a new program or outreach event.
Case studies
Landowner Adoption of Water Quality Best Management Practices: Motivations and Barriers
Link to PDF from Journal of Extension
Survey of 275 landowners in Texas's Little River Watershed.
Fostering and Facilitating Farmer Leadership in Watershed Management Projects
Link to PDF from North Central Region Water Network
Report on a project to build capacity for watershed leadership and management in 12 Mississippi River Basin states.
Get involved - connect with peers
The Confluence for Watershed Leaders
The Confluence for Watershed Leaders is a community of and for people who work to achieve healthy watersheds and thriving communities in the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Red River Basins of the U.S. Midwest and Mid-South. This online community is a place for watershed leaders to connect with peers, seek and share advice and opportunities, and feel part of something bigger.
Life Hacks over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects.
Metro Watershed Partners is a coalition of more than 70 public, private, and non-profit organizations in the Minneapolis/ Saint Paul metro area, who work together to inspire people to protect water quality in their watershed. Founded in 1996, the Metro Watershed Partners is a project of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
The Association is a nonprofit organization which exists to provide leadership and a common voice for Minnesota’s soil and water conservation districts and to maintain a positive, results-oriented relationship with rule making agencies, partners and legislators; expanding education opportunities for the districts so they may carry out effective conservation programs.
Formerly the Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts, this 501(c)(4) non-profit and membership-based organization's mission is to support and advocate for leaders in watershed management and a vision to establish excellence and innovation in member organizations.