Risa Shimoda - River Management Society, Stacy Beaugh - Tamarisk Coalition, The Cross-Watershed Network [XWN] is an emerging network to connect practitioners through information sharing, collective capacity building, and collaboration across watersheds. XWN is designed to help groups grow their ability to develop effective partnerships and strong implementation capabilities in the following key areas: • Building a peer-to-peer support system • Capacity building • Connecting • Documenting lessons learned • Information sharing; and, • Increasing communication XWN welcomes all site-based practitioners, watershed and river partnerships, private landowners, public and private agencies, nonprofit organizations, universities, and tribes working toward watershed health. The Verde Watershed Restoration Committee hosted the first Cross-watershed Network workshop in Cottonwood, Arizona September, 2013 and over 60 watershed stakeholders attended from Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Presentations by geomorphology and habitat restoration experts offered best practices and interactive breakout sessions tackled programming, internal capacity and outreach topics with round robin feedback sessions and problem-solving discussion. Participants indicated that the workshop met or exceeded their expectation, was a worthwhile investment and relevant to their work in the areas of Geomorphology, Fish and Wildlife Habitat Restoration, Collective Problem Solving and Long Term Maintenance (of riparian restoration). We look forward to sharing our forecast for XWN Year II: the status of the collaboratively managed this collaborated website, and plans for Workshop 2014.

2. Why did we do thisWHY DO WE NEED THE XWN?
The Core Team

3. Who benefits?WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

4. WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Peer-to-peer information exchange across watershed boundaries

5. I can tell Mary
about new needs
for a field study
I’d be happy to
share successes
with private
landowners with
Drew
I can help Lisa learn about
statewide programs
I can help Chip find
interns this summer
I can work with
Kevin to support a
new river project
I can help
Ericka locate
water
conservation
updates
HOW WOULD IT WORK?
I can help Josh
interpret EIS
jargon

6. WHY is it important?WHAT WOULD IT DO FOR US?
Improve capacity building and knowledge sharing
Collaborative development of management tools
Working together to address common challenges
Improving large-landscape effectiveness through collective impact

7. WHY DO WE NEED IT?
FASTER
CHEAPER
BETTER

8. HOW DID WE KNOW?
We Asked
You

9. WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU NEED?
• A personal, peer-to-peer connection
• Collaboration between watershed practitioners
• Restoration-based knowledge sharing
• Convenient information exchange and learning
opportunities

10. WHO DO YOU WANT TO
COLLABORATE WITH?

11. WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON?
Riparian Restoration and Invasive Species Control
Watershed, Forest and Upland Health
Water Quantity
Riparian Restoration and Altered Hydrology
Watershed Health on Agricultural Lands
Watershed Health on Urban Lands
Water Quality

12. HOW WILL WE LEARN AND SHARE
WITH EACH OTHER?
• Watershed hosted field trips and workshops
• Peer-to-peer consulting
• Web-based clearinghouse for information sharing
and tools
• Public education
• Cross watershed working groups
• Webinar trainings

13. WHAT HAVE WE DONE SO FAR?
First Annual Watershed-Hosted Riparian Restoration Workshop

14. • Searchable practitioner profiles
• Event posting
• Discussion boards
• Maps - interactive display of partnerships,
projects and people
• Links to resources
A WEBSITE IN DEVELOPMENT
www.crosswatershed.net

15. GET INOLVED IN THE XWN!
• Talk to a person with a XWN Sticker
• Visit the website www.crosswatershed.net
• Sign up for our email list by contacting
doppenheimer@tamariskcoalition.org
• Participate in upcoming 2014 workshop
• Connect us with your networks

16. Thank you to the Walton Family Foundation for providing funding for 2013 - 2014
HEALTHY WATERSHEDS THROUGH
HEALTHY PARTNERSHIPS