What is a Watershed Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS)?
A WRAS is a short, clear, comprehensive watershed plan that reflects specific goals, objectives, and commitments to preserve and restore habitat and water quality. A completed WRAS provides a natural resource based management plan for the public, watershed organizations, land trusts, and federal, state, and local agencies, pointing them to specific areas and specific issues that if implemented or addressed will result in measurable environmental improvement. A completed WRAS targets implementation, restoration, mitigation, protection, or preservation efforts. Local governments (the applicants may be municipal or county), lead the process to develop the Strategy. It is developed through a methodical and careful process of data acquisition, followed by a review and assessment of the data and a prioritization of problems identified. Then, approaches are selected that will provide protection or restoration to those prioritized sites. The results are documented in the final watershed strate
