FLOOD05967

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Rivers Without Boundaries: Proceedings of the Second Biannual ARMS Symposium on River Planning and Management
• Date: 4/18/1994
• Prepared By: American River Management Society
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

Table of Contents

Foreword

LuVeme Grussing, President, American River Management Society ......................................iii

Keynote Address

Rivers Without Boundaries: Lessons from the Colorado Plateau
Charles F. Wilkinson......................................... ............................................................ 1

Track I: Cooperative Strategies
Moderator: Barry Beasley, South Carolina Water Resources Commission, SC
Competition or cooperation? Critical to the success of holistic river management is working
effectively with private landowners and other managing agencies, overcoming opposition. and
improving public involvement. Two sessions allow an in-depth look at the Mississippi Headwaters
Program.

Mississippi Headwaters Case Studies, Part I & II
The Mississippi Headwaters Board (MHB) works to protect the natural, culwral, scenic, scientific and
recreational values of the fIrst 400 miles of the Mississippi River. These two sessions provide an in-depth look
at the work of MHB, ranging from biological assessments of the corridor to creating long-term management
sttategies based on culwral and other resource values. Other topics include using volunteers to gather reliable
data, zoning issues, and the various impacts on private property owners.

Protecting the Natural, Cultural, Scenic, Scientif1c and Recreational Values of the
First 400 Miles of the Mississippi River
Molly MacGregor............................................ ............ ............ ......................................9

Obtaining Reliable Water Quality Data With Volunteer Monitoring Networks
Steve Dillman ............................................................................................................ 15

Managing Rivers in the Public Interest: Survey Methods to Assess
Public Attitudes and Values
Patrick Welle, NormtUl Baa ..........................................................................................21

Public Involvement Across Boundaries (Workshop)
More and more, our public is demanding a participatory role in river management planning and agencies are
responding with a new direction to increase their public involvement efforts. Why then are so many efforts
thwarted? This session includes an honest discussion of the problems with public involvement and is designed
so the audience can fully participate in sharing problems, asking questions and discussing solutions. Why is the
public so mad and why should the agency care? How can different agencies (basin-wide) work together to reach
the same public? How do you involve special interest groups early and positively?

Public Involvement Across Boundaries
Paul D. Cowles, Edwin E. Krumpe, Ph.D., K. Lynn McCoy.............................................. 39