Working Toward Sustainable Communities and Healthy Ecosystems

Some of the following documents require Adobe Acrobat .

• Soil Based Recommendations for Storm Water Management Practices (1.5 MB)
• Agriculture and Community: A Case Study - Woodstock, Connecticut (10.5 MB)
  The study looks at the importance of agriculture to the community of Woodstock and the reciprocal importance and support of that community to agriculture. It also documents both typical and creative steps that can be -- and have been -- undertaken to support and conserve agriculture, shared community values, and the land as examples for other communities.  (Prepared for the Town of Woodstock, Eastern Connecticut RC&D Area, and USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service by Assistant Professor Mark Westa, the Program of Landscape Architecture, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut.)
• Assistance to Communities: Conservation Technical Assistance Program Fact Sheet Book (2.08 MB) (HTML version)
  NRCS in Connecticut has produced two documents to help people understand how groups function and to suggest ideas for groups to use for implementing conservation and meeting challenges.
• An Action Plan Booklet: Ideas for Working Together to Address Natural Resources Issues (890 KB)
  While anyone can use this booklet, it is primarily intended for people who are new to natural resources management efforts or for people who are looking for ways to move ahead with their group and effort. The booklet discusses what an action plan is, why it is useful, the elements found in an action plan, and how to put a plan together. The thoughts are meant to explore ways to engage a community in the natural resources decision making process, and illustrate how to accomplish goals by formalizing tasks and decisions.  (The Action Plan booklet was produced in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Long Island Sound Study.)
• Community Collaboration Guidesheets (324 KB)
  Each of these guidesheets addresses one aspect of working in collaborative processes with groups. The sheets are intended to introduce and familiarize readers with the concepts and issues that are part of working in collaborative processes with groups. (The Collaboration Guidesheets were produced by NRCS.)
• 2001 Open Space Initiative
• Collaboration in Community Based Partnerships
• Connecticut's Streamwalk Initiative
• Ecological Landscaping Network
• Information for Communities
• The Guilford Community Landscape Analysis Project

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