The Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers: Developing a Report Card Stakeholder Workshop Newsletter

The cover of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers Stakeholder Workshop Newsletter showing a landscape photo at the top, a map to the right, 3 photos at the bottom with text in the middle.Earlier this year, Bill Dennison and Brianne Walsh traveled to Concord, Massachusetts to initiate a report card for the Assabet, Sudbury, and Concord Rivers with OARS, a non-profit whose mission is to protect, improve, and preserve the rivers, their tributaries, and watersheds. This workshop newsletter highlights two stakeholder workshops held at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on February 28 and March 1, 2018. The initial workshop elicited what stakeholders value about the rivers, and subsequent workshop focused on how to measure those values, and where to find data. IAN will continue to work with, and support the OARS staff as they work to develop the report card over the next 12-18 months.