Awards

The Instream Flow Council consists of fish and wildlife agencies and their staff responsible to the public for protecting fish, wildlife, and their habitat from impacts due to changes in water regimes. In North America, water management is a provincial or state responsibility, so it is at the state and provincial level that much of the instream flow protection occurs. Member agency representatives do their best wherever human water demands threaten or potentially threaten fish, wildlife, and habitat. In doing their best, given constraints, they use tools based on several sciences, laws, and a variety of interpersonal interactions, combined with their own knowledge of these three fundamental components of instream flow protection and management. A key asset of member agencies is technical understanding of instream flows and the relevant laws and interests. Their credibility and effectiveness depend on both technical understanding and ability to work effectively with other interests while maintaining their advocacy for the public’s natural resources. Here we honor exemplary contributions to the field of instream flow.

2015 IFC Awards
Presented April 30, 2015

Last Updated May 13, 2019