WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Natural Resource Concerns and Environmental Effects Matrix
Instructions:
Review columns labeled "Resource Concerns" and "Environmental Effects to be Mitigated or
Prevented". List other concerns and/or effects as needed to more accurately inventory this
watershed and/or project. Complete the Natural Resource Concerns and Environmental Effects
Matrix by completing appropriate cells relating natural resource coconcerns with the
environmental effects to be mitigated or prevented. Indicate which cells in the matrix are the
primary (P) and which are the secondary (S) reasons for developing a Watershed Management Plan
by entering a P or S in the appropriate cells. Use a 0 to indicate cells where the resource
concerns are non-existent or they are minor in comparision with other reasons.
Definitions:
Sustainability: Resource degradation causing or threatening sustainability of
agricultural, economic or other resource uses that can be identified through this planning
process which may be prevented or mitigated by implementing selected management alternatives.
For example: Conversion of agricultural land for suburban and urban development, if continued
at current rates, will preclude agricultural production.
Natural Environment: Resource degradation causing or threatening to damage the
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems identified through this planning process which may be
prevented or mitigated by implementing selected management alternatives. For example: Niangua
Darter habitat degraded by loss of riparian vegetation, trampling of stream banks, and
sedimentation from adjacent cropland.
Human Health: Resource degradation causing or threatening decline in human
health identified through this planning process which may be prevented or mitigated by
implementing selected management alternatives. For example: Atrazine levels in public drinking
water supply reservoirs that currently exceed the maximum contaminant level for drinking
water.
Watershed and/or Project Name: 
Hydrologic Unit Number(s):
County:
Here is the Effects
Matrix. Designed to be printed in Landscape mode. |
