kayak - Conservation Ontario

Session Notes•••••Quantify upstream effects when stewardship is undertaken – maybe by usingair photos, stewardship may be masked (2 votes)Research-based (1 vote)- addressing new issues at farm/plot scaleSet standards for land classificationMore targeted BMPs that are monitoredLand use changes, e.g., farm uses- macro driversData Sharing• Cost benefit analysis (6 votes)• Interagency data sharing (3 votes)- need it to move forward and not repeat ourselves• Historical information and knowledge (3 votes)- need access to it or the same thing will be repeated- what key parameters to follow• Goals for reduction for current Great Lakes needs, e.g., tones Phosphorusreduction needed (2 votes)• Document long term implementation of stewardship after program ends(2 votes)• Goals for reduction for current Great Lakes needs, e.g., tones Phosphorusreduction needed (2 votes)• In-house and eventually interagency exchange of water quality site andstewardship activities (1 vote)• Evaluate your program at the relevant scale (1 vote)- we are currently using number of BMPs and large scale monitoring maybe needed to look at smaller scale sites/small watersheds and relevantBMPsInformation/data that is currently available (exists vs. available selectively) andwhy is it importantBaseline Data••••Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network and Provincial Water QualityMonitoring Network (12 votes)- monitor and design new programs- long term- measures variables most important for ecosystem health- no pathogen information is a weaknessGreat Lakes Near Shore Monitoring (4 votes)Historical databases (3 votes)- for comparisons over timeN & P & surface water (3 votes)- need to see changes over timeMET data – water flow, level, discharge (3 votes)- provides context- provides mechanism to populate models- builds conceptual models- demonstrates imports, trends- explanatory variables•KAYAK creating process flow 28