Principles & Objectives

By-laws

To view the SRWS By-Laws in full, please download the PDF below:

By-laws – Sept 2011
 

Purpose:

SRWC provides a volunteer, multi-interest effort to cooperatively seek solutions in order to enhance local resources and facilitate community collaboration on watershed issues.

  • The primary purpose of the SRWC is to inform the community on resource issues, to aid in resource management and to foster good stewardship of our watershed ecology. SRWC provides a volunteer, multi-interest effort to cooperatively seek solutions in order to enhance local resources and facilitate community collaboration on watershed issues.
  • The purpose also includes promoting effective, voluntary solutions to issues that face our watershed and related communities.
  • At the same time, the SRWC focuses on the recognition and sustainability of Scott Valley’s unique way of life and strives to make this a better place to live, work and visit, now and for future generations.
  • The SRWC also may make recommendations to the Siskiyou Resource Conservation District (RCD) on the prioritization of projects within the watershed.
  • The SRWC will strive to help monitor the effectiveness of implemented programs, plans and projects so that locally controlled, informed decisions and future plans can be made to maintain and improve our watershed.

Principles:

The primary principles of the SRWC’s efforts will be based on voluntarily conserving and enhancing the natural resources of the Scott River watershed. In its activities, the Scott River Watershed Council will conduct itself with the upmost regard for:

  • Individual life, liberty and property;
  • Custom and culture of the area (as defined in the Siskiyou County Comprehensive Land and Resource Management Plan);
  • The inextricable linkage of healthy communities and the natural environment.

Objectives:

In support of the Purpose and Principles set forth in this document, the SRWC will adhere to objectives in its service to the community and the watershed as a whole:

  • Inclusion: Promote the inclusion of all people and/or stakeholders who live in or work in the Scott River watershed.
  • Collaboration: Use a collaborative process to resolve conflicts and to encourage ongoing understanding among all involved parties
  • Education: Emphasize widespread dissemination of accurate and current watershed resource information.
  • Investigation: Actively investigate new and existing methodologies for local watershed study and improvement.
  • Vision: Develop a strategic planning process to effectively guide watershed conservation and enhancement projects.
  • Evaluation: Evaluate proposed and completed watershed projects
  • Action: Work in cooperation with property owners to develop sound and cost-effective proposals for resource conservation and enhancement.