The Partnership for Coastal Watersheds is a collaborative community-driven project guided by a diverse group of community-spirited local citizens and technical advisors.  Staff from the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Coos Watershed Association serve as project facilitators.  

Geographically focused on areas surrounding the Coos estuary, the Partnership for Coastal Watersheds’ mission is to collaborate to understand local watershed conditions and address their capacity and resiliency to serve ecological, economic, and social needs for present and future generations.

• A Community Vision which articulates the community’s ideal environmental and socio-economic conditions in 20 years
• A State of the Watersheds assessment which characterizes status and trends of environmental attributes and socio-economic conditions in the project area; and 
• An Action Plan which describes what the community can do to address the environmental and socio-economic conditions that impede progress towards the community vision

• The Coos Estuary Inventory Project, an in-depth assessment of environmental and socio-economic status and trends,   
• The Estuary Monitoring Tools and Indicators Project, a set of monitoring tools to track and model estuary conditions over time, including a hydrodynamic model of the Coos estuary and an indicators program, and 
• Implementation of the Phase 1 Action Plan

Authored by Jennifer Schmitt, Assistant Coordinator/Data Manager, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve 2013

Phase 1 Documents:

Phase 2 Documents: