Watersheds: Making Your Community a Vibrant Place to Live

Managing watersheds shapes a future for towns that provides both economic stability and sound management of valuable natural resources. Watershed planning is the management of land use within a town based on the capability of natural resources to accommodate what is planned. A municipality reviews the capability of their land and water resources, and they make zoning determinations which are suitable for those capabilities. This pamphlet emphasizes the importance of watershed planning and offers suggestions on the implementation of a watershed plan