Providing a healthy future for the six watersheds for the next generations and those beyond.
Stewardship:
Accepting the burden of responsibility for the long care of the watersheds.
Integration:
Bringing together the diverse interests and talents that must work together to accomplish watershed conservation.
Community:
Commitment to providing a large and welcoming umbrella for all cultures and communities that represent and are interested in our watersheds. Working with private landowners to return their aquatic and terrestrial interface into a functioning ecosystem.
Credibility:
Always serving as honest brokers of information, striving to provide the best and most current information without bias. An informed public makes informed decisions.
Respect:
Embracing the many cultures within our community that live connected to the land and water recognizing the importance of citizens.
Networking:
Building the relationships necessary to support the watershed network from southern Alabama to the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida; serving as cross pollinators of watershed expertise and opportunity.
Collaboration:
Working in partnership to make progress and be successful alongside our
supporters, stakeholders, clients, and friends in conservation.
Catalyst:
Serving as a useful, accessible clearinghouse of watershed information by
providing resources, energy, and passion that enable
others to be successful in their watershed and conservation efforts.
Efficient:
Keeping track of Intra- and Interstate water resource managers and activities; providing oversight for land use development and management; coordinating to better allocate resources and attention to sensitive areas, with recognition of strategic priority areas for long-term success of the ecosystem.
Enduring:
Measuring success through tangible results that positively change the six
watersheds.
Passionate:
Providing information to empower citizens to address environmental issues in their communities and restore their area water quality.
Focused:
Conserving the six major watersheds in south Alabama and the Panhandle of Florida is the purpose of The Panhandle Watershed Alliance.