Riparian resilience is the ability for the system to recover from disturbances and will promote the long-term sustainability of our watersheds.
Sustainable land management refers to practices and technologies that aim to integrate the management of land, water, biodiversity, and other environmental resources to meet human needs while ensuring the long-term sustainability of ecosystem services and livelihoods. Public Land Managers use a variety of approaches; some are covered below
Conduct Projects With Staff and Volunteers
Provide Youth Education Programs
There are many activities and opinions about what to do for sustainability for the environment including the watershed and riparian areas. Here's some links that cover the issue. The views and opinions expressed in these documents that we have shared do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions held by our organization or the contributors to the Agua Fria Watershed Display.
Forest Resilience and Ecosystem Services - Bureau of Land Management resource
Environment Politics and Policy Lecture - Massachusetts Institute on Technology
Community Science vs Citizen Science - Which term should we use? Here's some articles to consider:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-science-vs-citizen-science/1600/19
https://debspark.audubon.org/news/why-were-changing-citizen-science-community-science
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/about/SYNTHESIS%20Defining%20Citizen%20Science.pdf