Confluence Goals
& Strategies

The only way to ensure a healthy future for our environment, our economy, and our community is through committing to the regeneration of our river and watershed.

  • Convene and catalyze partner organizations towards shared priorities around which members will coordinate the use of their authorities and resources. Provide a framework for inter-agency collaboration for adaptive watershed management, information sharing, and public policy development.

  • Be a hub for the sharing of scientific studies and monitoring and assessment data addressing the ecological health of the Russian River Watershed and its restoration and management in the context of climate change, land use change, and population growth. The Confluence will interact with the Russian River Regional Monitoring Program (R3MP) to coordinate the science and monitoring needs associated with its watershed protection and restoration priorities.  Common objectives include a shared data platform, optimized monitoring networks, consistent monitoring, and analytical protocols, coordinated reporting and public outreach, and opportunities for joint special studies.

  • Campaign for watershed health and recovery by telling the story of the watershed. Inspire communities to contribute towards stewardship of the river and to change behaviors that diminish watershed health via the Respect Russian River community engagement platform. 

  • Build the Confluence as a sustainable, self-funded organization that is an effective voice and information hub for Russian River protection and restoration.

Additionally, our priorities for a healthy watershed include:

  • Protection and restoration of headwater streams, riparian habitat, stream-channel-floodplain interaction, and terrestrial and aquatic habitats for key native species

  • Development of strategies and protocols for managing climate emergencies, such as fires, floods, and droughts

  • Protection of streamflows through the promotion of groundwater recharge, including the "slow it, spread it, sink it" stormwater runoff management strategy

  • Improvement in the control and management of pollutant discharges to surface and groundwaters