Increases in the frequency of floods are leading watershed planners to encourage practices that can attenuate surface runoff. Water detention practices that are distributed watershed wide are one approach being considered. Several water detention practices also provide wetlands that carry habitat and water quality benefits. How should planners set planning goals to realize these benefits? This editorial examines how precision siting of practices can provide data for evaluating watershed goals and assessing how implementation strategies may influence chances of success in reaching those goals. In three HUC12 watersheds representing different landscape regions of Minnesota's Yellow Medicine River, the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) toolbox was used to locate sites suited for installation of water and sediment control basins (WASCOBs), depressional (prairie pothole) wetlands, and nutrient removal wetlands. Tabulated attributes for sited practices included water storage capacities (volume) and potential wetland areas, which were summed to represent a “landscape capacity” for storing water and creating wetlands in each watershed. These capacities were plotted with interim (10-year) watershed planning goals established for water storage and new wetland areas, and progress toward reaching these goals was estimated assuming implementation of 30 wetland practices, selected either at random or by rank when prioritizing sites based on water storage volume, wetland size, or runoff-contributing area. Results indicated that a random ranking could be effective in reaching at least one interim (10-year) planning goal in each watershed. Results show ACPF watershed planning products can be used to evaluate planning goals and whether recruitment strategies for implementation need to target larger, priority sites to ensure success. The question is important because targeted recruitment of a few large sites that may optimize benefits may also be difficult to implement for social and/or logistical reasons. Whereas, if open enrollment strategies can be successful over interim planning windows, they can also demonstrate new practices to enhance social acceptance for broadening future conservation benefits. Results suggest an avenue for collaborative landscape-scale agricultural research crossing social and conservation disciplines.

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测量蓄水和湿地恢复实践的景观容量可以为流域规划目标和实施策略提供信息

洪水频率的增加导致流域规划者鼓励采取可以减弱地表径流的做法。在流域范围内分布的蓄水做法是正在考虑的一种方法。一些蓄水措施还提供了具有栖息地和水质优势的湿地。规划者应如何设定规划目标以实现这些收益？这篇社论探讨了实践的精确选址如何为评估流域目标和评估实施策略如何影响实现这些目标的成功机会提供数据。在代表明尼苏达州黄药河不同景观区域的三个 HUC12 流域中，农业保护规划框架 (ACPF) 工具箱用于定位适合安装水和泥沙控制盆地 (WASCOB)、洼地（草原坑洼）湿地和养分去除湿地的地点。选址实践的列表属性包括蓄水能力（体积）和潜在湿地面积，将它们相加以代表每个流域蓄水和创造湿地的“景观容量”。这些容量与为蓄水和新湿地区域建立的临时（10 年）流域规划目标一起绘制，并且在实现这些目标的过程中，假设实施了 30 种湿地实践，这些实践是随机选择的，也可以是根据优先级排序的蓄水量、湿地面积或径流贡献面积。结果表明，随机排名可以有效地在每个流域中实现至少一个临时（10 年）规划目标。结果显示 ACPF 流域规划产品可用于评估规划目标以及实施的招募策略是否需要针对更大的优先地点以确保成功。这个问题很重要，因为由于社会和/或后勤原因，有针对性地招募一些可以优化收益的大型站点也可能难以实施。然而，如果开放注册策略可以在临时规划窗口中取得成功，它们也可以展示新的做法，以提高社会接受度，从而扩大未来的保护效益。结果表明了跨社会和保护学科的协作景观规模农业研究的途径。