Stewardship

What is Stewardship?

At CWC, we define stewardship as taking steps to make a positive difference. Watershed stewardship, therefore, involves taking actions to improve the health of your local watershed.

CWC’s water quality monitoring programs focus on measuring the levels of key contaminants in local streams and storm drain outlets. The results of these monitoring programs in turn inform our education and stewardship programming. CWC’s education efforts aim to inform school children and members of the public about basic watershed concepts, with the key message that whatever we do on land affects the health of local streams. CWC’s stewardship programs aim to take the next step, from information to action.

Our main stewardship focus is to communicate the critical message that you can make a difference! What can you do? We answer that question by compiling a wide variety of ideas in one place:  our Stewardship Toolkit gives you numerous examples. After you take steps to improve the health of your local watershed, you can document what you’ve done and post it on our Stewardship Portal. Sharing the stewardship steps you’ve taken encourages others to follow suit, it creates a sense of community and responsible citizenship, and it demonstrates to local leaders that residents really do care about these issues. So we’re asking you to read our Stewardship Toolkit and visit our Stewardship Portal to join us in preserving and protecting coastal watersheds. Together we’re making a difference.