Work in cooperation with other agencies, as well as interested groups, on education programming planning and delivery, technology transfer and informed public policy making. Foster internal and cross organization coordination and cooperation with personnel and funds. Empower youth and volunteers by developing community roles for youth. Identify the roles UWEX is best positioned to play. A reliable, objective source of information is the underpinning of sound decision making in a community.
Education provides the best hope of attaining holistic management of our ecosystem.
Wisconsin citizens will need to more fully understand how ecosystems function and how both land and water resources can be used and re-used with minimal disruption of these systems. A spiraling increase in population coupled with sprawling urbanization are at the heart of many water resource problems. For these reasons growth-related issues and their environmental consequences are a common thread to be woven throughout Extension's water resources programming. Targeting audiences and developing effective program delivery approaches for such programs will require a high degree of innovation. The Extension Water Issues Team has identified four focus areas and an ongoing list of emerging issues to be addressed.