The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy it is already too late for that but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance. Our only hope is to work together across ownerships to understand what we have done to the land and how we can restore it to health. The key is water. Everyone in every community needs water. Everyone needs clean water and all the benefits that flow from it.
Watersheds are the barometers of the health of the land.
By focusing on areas of agreement such as water quality improvement, maintaining stream flows, and allowing for the ecological processes that make for healthy forests, we can bring people together to restore the soil, water, and air upon which we and future generations will depend.