Big Ideas, Real Impact
In the El Dorado Countywide Plenary for Water in 2024, state, federal and local governments, agencies, utilities, and interested parties came together to brainstorm ways to improve watershed health and community resilience. The two wheel figures from two separate and parallel efforts are a perfect pair to show the intent of our holistic approach to landscape-scale watershed projects. The ecosystem goods and services wheel developed for our Programmatic Watershed Plan shows the interconnected ecological values provided by the working landscape in our watershed. The pillars of resilience described in the Framework for Resilience by Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative shows what we could accomplish when we embrace the interconnectedness of these ecological values for multi-benefits.
Where scale matters
The design of the solutions need to match the scale of our problems. Landscape-scale projects with multi-SOLVE benefits require all of us to exercise a collective focused, resourceful, and creative mindset. This is what Headwaters Connect is all about.
At Headwaters Connect, we seek connectivity and leverage opportunities that are multi-jurisdictional, multi-sector, and multi-disciplinary to expand existing resources and assets for broader support and coalition, as well as maximizing state and federal assistance and incentivizing industrial and societal investments for our headwaters.
Here we celebrate some of our major initiatives.
