What do these river and watershed organizations do?
River and watershed organizations work on a variety of aspects of work ranging from water quality and quantity to recreation to education and outreach. These organizations also cover a diverse range of temporal and spatial scales lending to these organizations being able to work on many issues and challenges throughout the Intermountain West.
Organizations Missions
During interviews with organization representatives, representatives were asked to talk about their organization's mission. For organizations that could not be interviewed, missions were collected through the organization's website. All of these missions were then coded into different mission focus areas. Missions were able to be put in multiple categories. The average number of mission focus areas used for a mission was 3 mission focus areas.
Different Scales of Organization
Organization representatives were asked where they were working geographically (more can be read about where organizations work) as well as how long the organization has been in existence.
Spatial
Bar chart showing counts of organizations that fall into different spatial categories. Categories and counts are as follows: Large Region/Basin — 15, State or Region — 8, Multi-Watershed or Basin — 85, Watershed — 99, and Local — 17.
Temporal
Bar chart showing counts for how long organizations have been in existence. Existence categories and counts are as follows: More than 25 Years — 105, 11 to 25 Years — 93, and 10 Years or Less —36.