Watershed Pilots
This will mostly be a state effort to select local collaborative efforts that could be instructive for regional work. The states themselves will select projects currently underway in their states which have extensive monitoring components. It will be important to search out projects that use monitoring data from a variety of sources. These projects can be assessed for lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful monitoring collaborations, as well as recommendations for improvements. Other alternative pilots may include work on watersheds that straddle state boundaries (e.g. the St. Joseph River watershed).