In addition, Friends convened interested and concerned parties to establish criteria for collaborative projects. Then, these groups selected two projects to focus upon. Friends and its partner the National Park Service worked to ensure that citizens were included in this process. As a result, two on-site restoration projects are being implemented and more are on the way. All of these projects are being completed with multi-agency participation and citizen and youth corps labor.
Friends continues to respond to opportunity.
This project, conducted in conjunction with the Waters Elementary School, happened because of the local leaders and because of the flexibility and assistance of government representatives. It happened because in these leaders Friends saw the opportunity to help get a project done. Friends continues to build awareness and to develop itself as an institution. The Friends walking tours continue and have been supplemented by a schedule of extremely popular canoe trips. The Policy and Planning Committee still reviews river edge developments.