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The North Olympic Peninsula (NOP) Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) proposes toSolutions Network because local citizens pioneered one of the states most cooperative, effective and integrated water, ecosystem and agricultural management teams. The performance of this local Solutions Network will be optimized and a blue print for extending these activities and results broadly across the nation will be developed. evolve a Solutions Network of local, regional and national organizations to provide watershed management teams with decision support through NASA-funded earth-sun research results. The NOP-RC&D was selected to lead the project because the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) administers an existing network of 375 RC&Ds across the nation. The NOP-RC&D and NRCS will work with the NASA-funded Pacific Northwest Regional Collaboratory to apply hydro-climatological research to improve the scientific basis of local watershed decision making. The Dungeness River watershed was selected as a demonstration site for testing the proposed