Stewarding the relationships that sustain watershed health for both people and nature
What is a watershed?
A watershed is all the land where rainfall and runoff flow downhill into the same river system. The Mad River Watershed is the Valley’s connected land and water system. From the high mountain rills and bogs of Granville Gulf and across the mountain hillsides, water flows through the forests, neighborhoods, farms, and open spaces of the valley before reaching the Mad River. Everything that happens across this landscape affects the health of the Mad River Watershed.
What makes a watershed healthy?
A healthy watershed depends on many interconnected systems working together, including creeks and wetlands, groundwater, soils, forests and grasslands, and the built environments where people live and work. These systems influence how water moves through the landscape, how habitats function, how the river behaves, and how the Valley responds to flooding, drought, and climate change. Through diverse partnerships of neighbors, businesses, towns, and other organizations, the Vermont Center for Watershed Stewardship works to better understand and restore these interconnected relationships between the land, water, and community.
LAND
WATER
