Because the best conservation work is done by connecting landowners, agencies, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders, most projects are soup-to-nut efforts. Each project is unique. In a typical year, DTU works with more than 50 cooperating organizations to identify conservation work that needs to be done, to work with landowners to find possible solutions, to assess watersheds, to develop engineering solutions, and to find necessary funding. All this planning and work on the ground is done to improve streams and buffer to the point where they can heal themselves. We get our hands dirty. We have the science to back up our claims.