Presenter: Jake Powell, Extension Specialist – Utah State University Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.

Abstract: Watershed planning can be hard. It is a process that requires an understanding of the physical landscape, processes, and the people. Sometimes in grappling with the inherent complexities of the physical landscape we relegate the “people” portion of the plan into only the implementation phase of the plan. Is there a place for people to come to the preverbal planning table not as stakeholders only, but as content experts, collaborators, and family? It is perhaps a thorny proposition and opens up a more unstable process, but it has benefits that are transformative and long lasting for the planning process, the landscape, and the people.

This is part of the Water for Ag Engagement series, of which UNL is a project lead.

For more information and register for free: https://water4ag.psu.edu/calendar_event/ensuring-people-are-front-and-center-in-watershed-planning/?fbclid=IwAR1_80A7uVetpY3LXnzkQlez8D0VcsCJnkIZwA3myHJZ88MUEDknI9nfSfA