One Watershed - One Community
From the headwaters in the San Juan Mountains to the confluence of the San Juan River.
Watershed Week 2023
The Mancos Conservation District is hosting a week of events to get the community better connected to the Mancos Watershed. This will be a final wrap up to our One Watershed- One Community Workshop series to thank everyone who participated and wants to participate in the future.
These special opportunities allow participants to interact with the Mancos Watershed and allow us to continue to hear feedback from the community on the progress of the Mancos Watershed Stream Management Plan.
Please use the links above to register if you want to attend the Appreciation Dinner or Watershed Tour.
To help facilitate the creation of the Mancos Watershed Stream Management Plan, the Mancos Conservation District is hosting 4 three-day workshops to continue gathering feedback from the community regarding the future of the water and forest resources in the Mancos Watershed.
These workshops, facilitated by Jeff Goebel of the Community Consensus Institute, enable participants to provide meaningful input on the Mancos Watershed Stream Management Plan while also learning strategies to strengthen our community through consensus. Participants will develop conflict resolution and sustainable decision-making skills and strategies that can be used in a variety of applications, both personal and professional.
The workshops are hosted in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
Meet Jeff Goebel
Jeff Goebel is a leading expert in helping individuals and communities attain their goals and remove the obstacles that lie in the way, with over thirty-five years of national and international successes in consensus building, conflict resolution, and regenerative solutions. As an award-winning consultant in private practice, he has worked on catalyzing positive change from non-profits to government agencies, multi-national corporations to small family ranchers. He has developed a highly effective program of respectful listening, visioning, and planning that attains complex and long-lasting change through 100% consensus with all parties.
His articles and studies have been published in professional journals, anthologies, and on his blog. He authored a children’s book entitled: One Thing You Can Do To Save the Earth, an “every person’s” guide to reversing the catastrophic deterioration of the eco-system that draws on his extensive research and experience in soil health, land management, and human dynamics. He models his work on his small New Mexican farm. Jeff and his wife, Myrna, are NACD Soil Health Champions for the work that they do with Adobe Farm and internationally with promoting this work.
His recent clients include the National Geographic Society, federal and state agencies, various tribes across the United States, a northern CA biodynamic coastal community, a CA rancher to rancher project, parent-teacher partnerships in public and private schools and complex eco-restoration and socio-economic renewal programs in Molokai, Navajo healthy soil restoration and the restoration of the pastoral way of life for the Maasai in Kenya. In his volunteer work, Jeff offers his services and training workshops to a long list of individuals, businesses and organizations, from struggling communities to troubled families and schools. In 2019, he was a co-designer of New Mexico’s Healthy Soil Act, which was passed in the legislature with nearly 100 percent agreement.
Jeff’s entire career has included 17 years of federal service in the NRCS, Forest Service, BLM, BIA and APHIS. He has managed and consulted with numerous ranches and farm, conservation districts, tribal nations (within the US and internationally), served on various boards including NMACD, Kellogg Foundation’s Integrated Food and Farming Systems, and Land Trusts.