Are you alarmed or concerned by climate change? 
 

How can you overcome your climate concerns and become a competitive steward?  
 

Snook Solutions wants to help you to overcome your concerns and find your place as a competitive steward.  

 

To start your journey toward competitive stewardship, follow the quick steps toward learning your watershed ecosystem.  Follow the addition steps to help find your place in the stewardship of your watershed.  Many watersheds are currently under stress and vulnerable to the threats of climate change, including the Otter Creek Basin in central Vermont.  Water quality is essential to the quality of life in your watershed ecosystem.  

 

First, identify your own watershed and understand its interconnectedness to adjacent watersheds.   

 

Please visit: Learn Your VT Watershed

• Review the watershed map of Vermont 

• Please identify the four Drainage Basins caused by the Green Mountains

• Identify your watershed on the map

Please note: Your ecosystem is interconnected with other ecosystems, from a local scale up to a global scale.  Logically, your watershed can be dependent upon other watersheds for its quality. If the quality of your watershed is threatened, then it is logical to expand your own stewardship range toward adjacent watersheds.  

 

Second, virtually and/or physically explore your watershed. This website provides a virtual experience of the Otter Creek.  

 

Please visit: Experience Otter Creek

• Virtually explore the Otter Creek from its headwaters through its lowlands

• Kayak the high-quality headwaters near Wallingford 

• Take a step back in time briefly through a historic photo gallery of the Marble Valley’s waterfalls, including Rutland Falls, Sutherland Falls.  

• Get a glimpse of the size of the historic marble industry in Brandon and Proctor. 

• View the covered bridges located upon entering the lowlands of the Otter Creek. 

• Enjoy an aerial drone YouTube video of Middlebury Falls

• Fly over the scenic Vergennes Falls via an aerial drone 

• Cruise upstream on a boat from Lake Champlain to the Vergennes Falls. 

 

Third, research the concept of stewardship.  

 

Please visit: Stewardship

• Snook Solutions provides an image of a concept of stewardship. 

 

Fourth, research the stakeholders involved in the stewardship of your watershed.  Snook Solutions provides a sample list of Otter Creek stakeholders.  

 

Please visit: Otter Creek Stakeholders

• Please review an analysis of Rutland, Vermont with a comparison between the significant differences between results of Vermont versus Rutland.  

• Review an analysis of the survey poll on Beliefs

• Review an analysis of the survey poll on Risk Perceptions

• Review an analysis of the survey poll on Policy Support and Behaviors

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Remember:

The place that you call your home is located within a watershed ecosystem. The hydrogeologic cycle of a watershed is the natural process of recycling water from the atmosphere down to (and through) the earth and back to the atmosphere again.