Thursday, April 23, 1998 | 10:40 a.m.
Earlier this month, more than 250 landowners, governments and water agencies met to discuss the future of the Carson River and how to manage the water resources.
"The most important thing is that it's a follow up," said John Cobourn, water resource specialist with the University of Nevada, Reno cooperative extension.
"It's a workshop where we're going to consider what are the next steps we are going to take with this watershed."
The Carson River begins in Sierra and flows through Alpine County in California and Nevada's Douglas, Carson City, Lyon and Churchill counties.
"There are lots of groups that work on the river ... so we're not trying to replace or compete with any of the groups that already exist," Cobourn said.
"Many of the people who attended the first conference thought we needed to coordinate among them. When you get something as big as a watershed, you need something as important as communications."
Nearly 80 percent of participants who completed an evaluation after the first conference favored forming a new citizen and interagency group to coordinate river watershed management, he said.
The second conference will consider alternatives of what type of a group should oversee the river and management priorities.
"It could be a whole new agency, or it could be a different alternative," Cobourn said. "This type of forum gives those involved an alternate perspective."
The workshop will be held Monday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ormsby House.
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