1. Lower John Day

2. Step 1: Building the Collaborative
Most Useful:
Established partnership
working group
operations manual and signed cooperative agreement
Facilitation
Robust scientific community
Challenges:
Gaining trust from ag. producers
Partner Legacy Issues
Capacity to focus our efforts
Meeting Fatigue
Travel Time
Day Jobs & Other Partnership Engagement
Gilliam County SWCD
Gilliam-East John Day Watershed Council
Mid-John Day/Bridge Creek Watershed Council
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Sherman County Area Watershed Council
Sherman County SWCD
Gilliam County Cattlemen Association
The Freshwater Trust
WaterWatch of Oregon
Oregon Water Resources Department
Oregon DEQ
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Wheeler County SWCD

3. Step 2: The system Identified limitations within WABS
Identified the recreational need
Identified where our ag use is concentrated
Data Gaps
Ground Water
Flow Target Data
Weakness in agricultural production data