Programs
Healthy watersheds depend on healthy relationships—between people, water, wildlife, and place. Through science, education, collaboration, and community action, the Alliance works across the Mystic River watershed and the broader bioregion to build resilience for generations to come.
Watershed Science & Planning
A community-based, youth and Tribal co-led planning process to heal communities, lands, and waters through interdependent regenerative solutions including policy change, design of the built environment, and nature-aligned land care practices.
Our Climate Vulnerability Assessment focuses on understanding and addressing key environmental risks in the upper Mystic River Watershed. Working with
Fuss & O’Neill, our tribal partners, and
our communities, we are identifying
critical vulnerabilities and creating solutions that reflect the experiences of those who live here.
The Living Atlas is a Storymap that takes you through a collection of interactive maps highlighting different parts of the watershed and surrounding communities. It lets you explore how environmental resources, climate risks, infrastructure, and other factors interact across the region. The Living Atlas is a tool to help you better understand the places you live, work, and care about within the watershed.
Indigenous knowledge and contemporary science combines to provide
the solid foundation for long-term watershed health.
Water Quality & Restoration
Protecting and restoring the rivers, streams, and estuaries that sustain our communities.
Toadfish is right--it IS all about the water. We humans have to pay attention to the quality of the water if we want to ensure our own quality of life, and remember that whatever we put on the land ends up in the water
The Alliance is working diligently to improve local native alewife populations. Learn more and get involved below!
The Community Action Team (CAT) is essential in shaping the Mystic River Vulnerability Assessment​. Over the next few weeks, the CAT will host a series of conversation circles related to climate vulnerabilities and solutions. See below for event details and registration.
Every six weeks, we bring together planners and officials from participating towns and Tribal Nations for coordination and collaboration.
In a time when communities, ecosystems, and economies face interconnected crises, we are motivated by the urgent need to heal ancestral lands and waters, support Indigenous resurgence, and design human systems that work in reciprocity with the natural world.
Regional & Bioregional Collaboration
Building relationships across generations, communities, organizations, and Tribal Nations.
Every six weeks, we bring together planners and officials from participating towns and Tribal Nations for coordination and collaboration.
Collective Learning & Regenerative Economy
Supporting the knowledge and systems needed for long-term resilience.