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DRAFT
The America’s Watershed Initiative Report
Card project continued with a regional
workshop for the Arkansas River and Red
River Basins, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May
14–15, 2014. At the workshop, stakeholders
and experts from social, economic, and
environmental sectors identified easily
understood and transparent ways to measure
status and trends for the Arkansas River and
Red River Basins in relation to six broad goals.
Similar workshops will be convened in each
of the remaining basins and results will be
integrated into a report card for the entire
Mississippi River Basin.
Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament on the Red River.
Image courtesy of Shreveport–Bossier Sports Commission
Cattle grazing in Oklahoma. Image courtesy of
Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association.
Aerial view of the Port of Catoosa in Tulsa. Image
courtesy of Oklahoma Dept of Transportation.
The map (top) shows land use in the Arkansas River and Red River Basins. The graph (bottom)
shows the gradient of average annual precipitation (in inches) across the basins from west to east.
AmericasWatershed.org/reportcard
America’s Watershed Initiative is a collaboration of
organizations, businesses, and agencies which will
bring a basin-wide perspective to the Mississippi
River Basin’s greatest challenges. Developing a
comprehensive watershed report card is an important
component of the Initiative. It will summarize and
communicate the status and trends in achieving
objectives for six broad management goals. The report
card results will encourage people and organizations
to engage in issues affecting the watershed.
Missouri
Arkansas &
Red
Upper
Mississippi
MOLINE, IL
CINCINNATI
, OH
LOUISVILLE
, KY
MEMPHIS, TN
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. LOUIS, MO
Lower
Mississippi
Ohio
Workshop participants:
Brian Haggard (Arkansas Water Resource Center,
University of Arkansas), Thomas Stiles (Bureau
of Water, Kansas Department of Health &
Environment), Lisa French (Cheney Lake Watershed,
Inc.), Carl Hayes (Cherokee County Health
Department), Stephen Greetham (Chickasaw
Nations), Jeremy Seiger (Dept of Agriculture,
Food & Forestry), Patrick Brennan (Ingram Marine
Group), George Herschel, Ronald Graber (Kansas
State University), Darrell Townsend (Grand River
Dam Authority), Carl Metcalf (Grand Lake O’the
Cherokees Watershed Alliance Foundation), James
Triplett (Grand Lake Watershed Alliance Foundation),
Robert Reschke, Matt Unruh (Kansas Water Office),
Shelly Morgan (Lake Texoma Association), Tom
Buchanan (Lugert-Altus Irrigation District), Michael
Kelsey (Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Assoc’n), Scott
Thompson, Jay Wright (Oklahoma Department
of Environmental Quality), Bret Sholar (Oklahoma
Department of Mines), Deidre Smith (Oklahoma
Department of Transportation, Waterways Branch),
Sue Ann Nicely, Diane Pedicord (Oklahoma Municipal
Brianne Walsh
Generating a report card requires participation
from managers, scientists, researchers, subject
experts, and other stakeholders knowledgeable
about resources and available data. The process
requires broad representation across sectors and
geographic areas throughout each basin. These
experts provide input on goals, values, desired
conditions, and indicators of watershed health in
each of the basins. The workshop process brings
different groups together to create a product
and promotes broad perspectives, dialogue, and
collaboration among different sectors and par-
ticipants. Information and feedback from other
sources unable to attend the workshops will be
sought to strengthen the report card. The Missis-
sippi River watershed includes parts of 31 states
and two Canadian provinces. The watershed
includes six basins, which will each have their
own indicators, scores, and report card results.
Stakeholders from all sectors will participate in
workshops in each basin. A report card for the
whole watershed will be developed using the
information from all of the basins.
The report card process and timeline
For more information:
Harald (Jordy) Jordahl, Director
America’s Watershed Initiative
americaswatershed.org
AmericasWatershed.org/reportcard
Arkansas River & Red River Basins
Report card workshop
League), David Engle (Oklahoma State University),
Ed Fite (Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission), JD
Strong (Oklahoma Water Resources Board), William
Hobgood (Ouachita River Valley Association),
Richard Brontoli (Red River Valley Association), Colin
Brown (Red River Waterway Commission), Herbert
Graves (State Association of Kansas Watersheds),
Kelly Holligan (Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality), Ruben Soils (Texas Water Development
Board), Michael Fuhr (The Nature Conservancy),
David Yarbrough (Tulsa Port of Catoosa), Jacob
Brister, Thomas Hengst, Lori Hunninghake, David
Jenkins, Colonel Courtney Michael Abate, Colonel
Courtney Paul, Colonel Richard Pratt (US Army
Corps of Engineers), David Taylor (Waurika Master
Conservancy District)
Science communication and
facilitation:
C. Wicks, B. Walsh, H. Kelsey, W. Nuttle, W.
Dennison, J. Thomas (University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science)
A. Freyermuth (US Army Corps of Engineers)
America’s
Watershed
Summit 2014
Louisville, KY
Lower Mississippi
workshop
Memphis, TN
Ohio–Tennessee
workshop
Cincinnati, OH
workshop
Moline, IL
America’s
Watershed
201420132012
Arkansas
& Red
workshop
Missouri
workshop
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Little Rock
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