Innovative Community Based Watershed Solutions For A Changing Southwest
Our mission is to help design, implement, and communicate on the ground applied ecology solutions to the growing water crises in the West.
Watershed Issues-First Step- Apply the Scientific Method
Do you or your community have water issues? Many communities, landowners, and interest groups face water access, water quality, and conservation issues. River Rat can help you. First and foremost, we will help you define your question or problem. Then, we will determine the data to help with these questions. River Rat can design and implement a cost-effective, problem-relevant study plan if more data is required. Finally, River Rat will help apply the data to the problem and solution. Once the client decides on a data-supported solution, River Rat will produce data sets, reports, and presentations to help build stakeholder cooperation.
Communicating Science To Non-Science Communities
Database solutions to watershed issues are the easy part. Once the problem has been defined and data compiled, the solution is often there. The hard part is constantly getting stakeholders to agree and implement the true spirit and intent of the solution. This requires communication. Too often, advice on communication needs to be more formulaic and contrived. Truly effective communication involves honest, respectful, and down-to-earth conversations with stakeholders. This is often as much art as science, and River Rat can help you by facilitating these conversations or helping with messaging.
“River Rat Aquatic Ecologists have a creative and unique way of solving applied aquatic ecology problems, using pragmatic innovative solutions and down to earth communication .”
— Amy Vinturella
Watershed Solutions Can Not Wait - Give River Rat a Call and Let Us Help You Implement Them
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