. Conservation 2000 : six-year report. Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources; Critical Trends Assessment Program; Ecosystem management; Water conservation; Water quality management; Watersheds; Conservation of natural resources. Pilot Watershed Program Bringing together broad-based interagency participation and long-range monitoring. Creek Hurricane Creek = -v- Sugar Creek •• / ^ 'i 'Big Creek V In 1997, four pilot watersheds; Court Creek, Hurricane Creek, Sugar Creek, and Big Creek were selected to study the broadest spectrum of natural resource stream management practices. The areas were chos
. Conservation 2000 : six-year report. Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources; Critical Trends Assessment Program; Ecosystem management; Water conservation; Water quality management; Watersheds; Conservation of natural resources. Pilot Watershed Program Bringing together broad-based interagency participation and long-range monitoring. Creek Hurricane Creek = -v- Sugar Creek •• / ^ 'i 'Big Creek V In 1997, four pilot watersheds; Court Creek, Hurricane Creek, Sugar Creek, and Big Creek were selected to study the broadest spectrum of natural resource stream management practices. The areas were chosen because of high levels \, of local interest and availability of participating agencies. '-. Their purposes include developing focused plans, ; implementing restoration practices, monitoring successes, and transferring experience gained to local partnerships. / Pilots are a learning experience, and an opportunity to try out new approaches. They are designed as a means to examine rela- tively discreet and small changes over a long period of time. As a way to measure best management practices (BMP), Pilot Watersheds bring together broad-based interagency participation. That means the Pilot Watershed Program is working with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the Illinois Department of Agriculture, the Farm Bureau, the Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the Nature Conservancy to name a few. By setting up models of stream stabilization, wetland and prairie restoration, water and sediment control basins and tree planting for example, the Pilot Watershed Program adds to the base of natural resource knowledge. The key is long-range monitoring, tracking the changes in these sample areas over a greater period of time. Finding out what works well and what doesn't work saves the local partnerships time and money when it comes to designing C2000 projects for their watershed. Developing new ways to coordinate funding benefits the local watershed Please
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