Healthy Watersheds Partnership - Assessment Guidance
Watersheds are inherently integrated and complex systems. Because of this, successfully conducting a watershed scale assessment can be quite a challenge. Here we provide step-by-step guidance on how to go about conducting such an assessment. Doing so involves six phases, including: planning; developing goals, objectives, and expected outcomes; assessment preparation; condition assessment; communicating results; and data acquisition, monitoring and management.
![Flow-chart depicting the six phases of conducting a watershed assessment: planning, developing goals, objectives, and expected outcomes, assessment preparation, assessment, communicating results, and data acquisition, monitoring and management.](../images/assessment_process_cropped.png)
Click on each phase in the Toolbox to be taken directly to the guidance for that phase.