These are the Cowichan Watershed Board's current Targets for Watershed Well-Being. They were updated with advice from our target partners from 2020-2023, with more refinement in progress. Additional Targets will be developed over the next few years.
An Ongoing Evolution! CWB's Targets for Watershed Well-Being
The Cowichan Basin Water Management Plan (2007) included an ambitious and daunting to-do list comprising a vision, six goals, 23 objectives, and 89 actions. However, when local people sat down together with the plan as the newly formed Cowichan Watershed Board, they decided that a more motivating and inclusive vision was needed to guide implementation. The list had to be refined to form a set of more manageable targets that the community, including Cowichan Tribes, could support. Draft targets were considered for months by the Technical Advisory Committee, carefully running each through a set of criteria to arrive at the Target set that is still guiding CWB today. The targets were intended as aspirational initiatives, distilled into powerful statements that became rallying cries. Efforts were made to make each target tangible, measurable and achievable, either directly or by adding measurable progress indicators. A brief background on each target with updates as of 2018 was published here. CWB Targets for Watershed Health - 2018 Update.
New project teams and ad-hoc partnerships like the Fish Kill Committee that emerged after the tragic 2023 die-off, have taken the place of target working groups. Project teams like this are often comprised of the same organizations and people who met through target working groups, re-organized to collaborate on what is most needed, often blending across multiple targets, and pooling knowledge, resources and funds to make tangible improvements.
Related Documents Evolving our Targets Strategy - Presentation to CWB Meeting - J.Thompson - Nov 2024 Cowichan Watershed Board - Targets Presentation-TomRutherford-07Jul2011 CWB Targets for Watershed Health - 2018 Update
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