YUKON TERRITORY
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
BRITISH COLUMBIA
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR
ALBERTA Vancouver
Fraser Basin Council
Bow River Basin Council
North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance Meewasin Valley Authority
Muskoka Watershed Council Grand River Conservation Authority Upper Thames River Conservation Authority Figure 1: Watershed Case Studies 38
Districts Act) enabled the respective for- mation of Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities and Manitoba’s 18 conservation districts. Over the past two decades, the watershed approach has gained popularity among governments and civic society in other parts of Canada. As a result, many new watershed organizations have formed.⁴ Starting in the mid-1990s, watershed
organizations began developing watershed report cards and many have produced sev- eral successive editions. The actual versus anticipated values and benefits of these planning tools have not been systematic- ally assessed and compared in Canada. To address this knowledge gap, research to compare and contrast the substance and influence of 39 watershed report cards
produced by 13 watershed organizations from across Canada was conducted (Figure 1).
METHODS
An analysis of watershed report card charac- teristics was supplemented by information obtained from 109 semi-structured inter- views and structured questionnaires. Of these, 49 were completed with chiefs-of- staff, senior technical staff, and board chairs, vice-chairs, or past-chairs. The remainder were undertaken with additional stakeholders in the Fraser Basin and Humber River watershed to further explore opinions and perceptions about the value of water- shed report cards. Participants included
representatives from the Board of Directors, watershed municipalities, non-government organizations, and, in the case of the Fraser Basin, provincial and federal agencies. Questions focused on: 1) how closely con- nected the watershed organization Board of Directors are to the watershed report card process and how it influences decision- making at the board level; and 2) whether or not there is a difference between the perceptions of people associated with the watershed organizations and others regard- ing the use and effectiveness of watershed report cards. Face-to-face or telephone inter- views were conducted with about half of the respondents, while the remainder of the participants responded in writing to the questionnaire.
Kitchener London
Toronto
Calgary Edmonton
SASKAT- CHEWAN
MANITOBA Saskatoon ONTARIO NEW BRUNSWICK QUEBEC P.E.I. NOVA SCOTIA
Clean Annapolis River Project
Miramichi River Environmental Enhancement Committee
Credit Valley Conservation Humber Watershed Alliance Don Watershed Regeneration Council Richelieu Basin Enhancement Committee
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