The Nose Creek Watershed Partnership aims to protect wetlands and their functions in mitigating flood and drought impacts, improving water quality, and supporting biodiversity in the Nose Creek watershed. The Partnership worked to identify existing and restorable wetlands in the watershed and to estimate the values of these wetlands for retention or restoration. The objectives of the first stage of the project were to compile a wetland inventory from multiple sources and to identify the criteria by which wetlands were assigned value.