kayak - Conservation Ontario

5.0 ConclusionsWhat emerged from the workshop was clear support for improved communication andinformation transfer on a practical level that meets the needs of practitioners and those involvedin watershed monitoring and stewardship program development and delivery. Information needsto be translated into knowledge that can be transferred, understood and used by agriculturalproducers towards effective management decisions.This communication is necessary for the advancement of the recommendations highlightedin this document. As such, a first step in moving forward on some of these actions would bethe formation of a multi-agency steering committee to begin implementing recommendationssuch as collaborative workshops.A further common point that came out of the workshop is the recognition that there are effectiveand, in some cases, long-term partnership programs and networks in place (e.g., ProvincialWater Quality Monitoring Network) that should be built upon to most efficiently address someof the recommendations. There was also recognition of the value of lessons learned from pastprograms that effectively linked water and stewardship that could be drawn upon in the designand delivery of future initiatives.10