Upper Salinas River Watershed Action Plan

What is the Upper Salinas River Watershed Action Plan?

The Watershed Action Plan (WAP) is a comprehensive planning document, a management plan, for the use by landowners, agencies and groups in their individual and collective efforts to improve and restore natural resources within the 2,000 square mile area of the Upper Salinas River Watershed. The planning area comprises approximately one-quarter of the watersheds that affect the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). This document includes the input from hundreds of persons, agencies and organizations.

The primary objects of the WAP are:

To improve water quality and to ensure adequate water resources to meet the various needs within the watershed
To foster the future well-being of agriculture
To reduce the loss of soil
To enhance habitat condition
To improve land use policies