Healthy Landscapes Goal Team Publications
Conewango Creek Initiative Conservation Toolbox for Municipalities
Publication date:This guide demonstrates how municipalities can use land and water conservation programs to improve their communities and protect watersheds and water resources.
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The Role of Natural Landscape Features in the Fate and Transport of Nutrients and Sediment
Publication date:This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop to consider whether there is a scientific basis for changing how the Chesapeake Bay Program's Watershed Model assigns nutrient and/or sediment loading rates of natural landscape features based on their ecological health/condition, management status and/or landscape position.
Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds: A Literature Review
Publication date:This paper explores the various methods that have been used to quantify the value of ecosystem services.
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Identifying and Protecting Healthy Watersheds: Concepts, Assessments, and Management Approaches
Publication date:This technical resource provides information for assessing, identifying and protecting healthy watersheds.
Cost of Community Services Fact Sheet
Publication date:This fact sheet documents the history, methodology, functions and purposes of Cost of Community Services (COCS) studies.
View document [PDF, 1.4 MB] Cost of Community Services Fact Sheet