Plants you wish to:

• Use to hold the bank and the bed. Also see Ground.
• Establish along and in the water. Also see Plant.
• Grow as habitat and cover for aquatic life. Also see Animal.
• Use to crowd out invasive growth. Also see Pest.
• Use to filter and clean the water. Also see Water.
• Establish without hauling in a program. Also see Product.
• Plant around docks and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Grow on ground you know is clean. Also see Contamination.
• Use to hold a shoreline against erosion. Also see Risk.
• Match to the water and the season you have. Also see Climate.

Plants that:

• Won't establish on the bank or in the shallows. Also see Ground.
• Are dying, thin, or never took. Also see Plant.
• The fish and aquatic life have lost as habitat. Also see Animal.
• Are getting choked out by invasive growth. Also see Pest.
• Are overgrowing and choking the water. Also see Water.
• Need more input every year to hold. Also see Product.
• Die out around the dock and the structures. Also see Utilities.
• Came in wrong on ground with a past. Also see Contamination.
• Are gone from the bank you're losing. Also see Risk.
• Can't take the water's rise and fall. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What would grow along your water's edge. Also see Ground.
• Which plants are right for your water. Also see Plant.
• Which plants feed and shelter your aquatic life. Also see Animal.
• How to push back the invasive without poisoning the water. Also see Pest.
• Whether the right plants could clean your water. Also see Water.
• Whether your plantings are getting what they need. Also see Product.
• What to plant around your docks and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground reaches the plants. Also see Contamination.
• What would hold your worst bank. Also see Risk.
• How to plant for the water you actually have. Also see Climate.

Animals you wish to:

• Support on a bed and bottom that hold. Also see Ground.
• Feed and shelter with the right plants. Also see Plant.
• Have more of, healthier, in your water. Also see Animal.
• Keep clear of parasites and disease. Also see Pest.
• Keep in water clean enough to thrive in. Also see Water.
• Feed and manage the way the water calls for. Also see Product.
• Keep clear of the docks, intakes, and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Keep off water you're not sure about. Also see Contamination.
• Protect where the water body is at risk. Also see Risk.
• Support through the water's swings and seasons. Also see Climate.

• Habitat lost as the bed and banks give way. Also see Ground.
• Aquatic life losing the plants that shelter them. Also see Plant.
• Fish or stock numbers down from what they were. Also see Animal.
• Parasites or disease running through the water. Also see Pest.
• Life that can't hold in water that's gone bad. Also see Water.
• A feed or stocking program that isn't working. Also see Product.
• Life pressured off by docks, intakes, or structures. Also see Utilities.
• Health problems that follow water with a history. Also see Contamination.
• A fishery or a population at risk from the water body itself. Also see Risk.
• Life that can't take the water's temperature swings. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether the bottom supports what lives in it. Also see Ground.
• Whether your plants feed and shelter your aquatic life. Also see Plant.
• What your water could actually hold and carry. Also see Animal.
• What's really behind your fish or stock losses. Also see Pest.
• What your water is doing to what lives in it. Also see Water.
• Whether your feed or stocking program fits the water. Also see Product.
• Whether your structures are pushing life out. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the water is reaching your stock. Also see Contamination.
• What the water body's condition means for the fishery. Also see Risk.
• How the seasons and swings affect what lives in your water. Also see Climate.

Pressure you wish to:

• Starve out by fixing the bed and banks. Also see Ground.
• Keep off your shoreline and buffer plants. Also see Plant.
• Keep out of your fish and aquatic life. Also see Animal.
• Break the cycle on for good. Also see Pest.
• Control without poisoning the water. Also see Water.
• Handle without a treatment program you're stuck with. Also see Product.
• Keep off your docks, intakes, and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Manage without adding more chemical to the water. Also see Contamination.
• Stop before it spreads downstream or to the next body. Also see Risk.
• Get ahead of as the seasons stretch. Also see Climate.

• The same invasive on the same shoreline every year. Also see Ground.
• Invasive growth taking your buffer plants. Also see Plant.
• Parasites or disease running through the fish. Also see Animal.
• An algae bloom that comes back every summer. Also see Pest.
• Invasive plants choking the water. Also see Water.
• Treatment you're dumping over and over. Also see Product.
• Growth fouling docks, intakes, and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Pressure that got worse the more you treated. Also see Contamination.
• An invasive spreading downstream or to the next body. Also see Risk.
• Blooms and pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your shoreline problem is really a soil problem. Also see Ground.
• Why the invasive takes one stretch and not another. Also see Plant.
• What's actually bothering your fish. Also see Animal.
• What's driving the pressure in your water. Also see Pest.
• What's turning your water green. Also see Water.
• How much of your treatment spending is preventable. Also see Product.
• What's fouling your docks and intakes. Also see Utilities.
• What all that treatment has left in the water. Also see Contamination.
• What's coming next based on what's here now. Also see Risk.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Climate.

Water you wish to:

• Keep from silting in and filling up. Also see Ground.
• Clean and clear with the right plants. Also see Plant.
• Keep healthy for the life in it. Also see Animal.
• Keep from breeding algae and pests. Also see Pest.
• Understand from top to bottom. Also see Water.
• Treat and balance the way it needs. Also see Product.
• Manage with the right controls and structures. Also see Utilities.
• Know is clean and safe. Also see Contamination.
• Keep from rising, falling, or moving where it shouldn't. Also see Risk.
• Hold and manage through the seasons. Also see Climate.

• Water filling in with silt from the banks. Also see Ground.
• Water choked with overgrown plants. Also see Plant.
• Water that fish and life can't hold in. Also see Animal.
• Water that turns green every summer. Also see Pest.
• Water with a color, a smell, or a clarity that's changed. Also see Water.
• Treatment you keep applying with no lasting change. Also see Product.
• Water your controls and structures can't manage. Also see Utilities.
• Water you don't trust or can't use. Also see Contamination.
• Water rising, dropping, or flooding when it shouldn't. Also see Risk.
• Water that swings too warm, too low, or too high with the season. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Why your water body is filling in. Also see Ground.
• Whether plants could clean and clear it. Also see Plant.
• What your water is doing to what lives in it. Also see Animal.
• What's turning your water green. Also see Pest.
• What's actually in your water, top to bottom. Also see Water.
• What your treatments are doing to it. Also see Product.
• What it would take to manage it right. Also see Utilities.
• Whether your water is clean and safe. Also see Contamination.
• What the water is doing to the land around it. Also see Risk.
• How the seasons move your water. Also see Climate.

Products you wish to:

• Use to hold the bed and banks. Also see Ground.
• Time to the plants you're establishing. Also see Plant.
• Match to what your fish and life actually need. Also see Animal.
• Swap for something that doesn't build resistance. Also see Pest.
• Keep from harming the water. Also see Water.
• Get a real result out of for what you're spending. Also see Product.
• Store and handle right around the water. Also see Utilities.
• Replace with something cleaner. Also see Contamination.
• Use without it moving downstream. Also see Risk.
• Have work through the season's swings. Also see Climate.

• Amendment that never held the bank. Also see Ground.
• Product that never helped the plants take. Also see Plant.
• A feed or stocking input the fish won't use. Also see Animal.
• Treatment that doesn't knock the algae back anymore. Also see Pest.
• Product you're dumping in the water over and over. Also see Water.
• A shelf of treatments and water that looks the same. Also see Product.
• Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Utilities.
• Residue in the water from years of the same thing. Also see Contamination.
• Treatment drifting or flowing downstream. Also see Risk.
• Product that works in one season and fails in another. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What your products are doing to the bed and banks. Also see Ground.
• How much your plantings ever see. Also see Plant.
• Whether what you're feeding matches what they need. Also see Animal.
• Whether you're solving the algae or feeding it. Also see Pest.
• What your treatments are doing to the water. Also see Water.
• What your water costs you a year in product. Also see Product.
• What you're storing and handling near the water. Also see Utilities.
• What's built up in the water after years of treatment. Also see Contamination.
• What you're sending downstream. Also see Risk.
• How your program should change with the season. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Build on a shoreline that will hold it. Also see Ground.
• Screen or plant around so it works with the water. Also see Plant.
• Set so it doesn't push the life out. Also see Animal.
• Keep pests and growth off. Also see Pest.
• Use to move, hold, or control the water. Also see Water.
• Store your treatment and gear in right. Also see Product.
• Run cheaper and cleaner. Also see Utilities.
• Know is healthy for the people using it. Also see Contamination.
• Site out of the water's way. Also see Risk.
• Keep working through the season's swings. Also see Climate.

• A dock or structure on a bank that won't hold. Also see Ground.
• Plantings dying around the structures. Also see Plant.
• Intakes or structures pushing the life out. Also see Animal.
• Growth fouling docks, intakes, and screens. Also see Pest.
• Controls that can't manage the water level. Also see Water.
• Treatment or gear stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Product.
• A pump or aerator costing more every year. Also see Utilities.
• Somebody who feels rough around a certain water building. Also see Contamination.
• A structure the water rises over or undercuts. Also see Risk.
• Systems that can't keep up with the season. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What's under the shoreline before you build on it. Also see Ground.
• What to plant around your water structures. Also see Plant.
• Whether your structures are pushing life out. Also see Animal.
• What's fouling your intakes and docks. Also see Pest.
• What it would take to control your water right. Also see Water.
• What you're storing and where. Also see Product.
• Where your pumping and running costs go. Also see Utilities.
• Whether the water systems are healthy for your people. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your structures sit where they should. Also see Risk.
• What it'd take to keep your systems running year round. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Know is clean before it touches the water. Also see Ground.
• Know is clean before you plant the shoreline. Also see Plant.
• Know is safe for your fish and life. Also see Animal.
• Clean up without adding more chemical to the water. Also see Pest.
• Prove clean before anyone uses it. Also see Water.
• Replace with a cleaner product. Also see Product.
• Know is healthy around the water systems. Also see Utilities.
• Document before anybody asks. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before it moves downstream. Also see Risk.
• Recover as the seasons work on it. Also see Climate.

• Ground bleeding something into the water. Also see Ground.
• Shoreline plants that came in wrong. Also see Plant.
• Health problems in the fish and life. Also see Animal.
• Water that got worse the more you treated it. Also see Pest.
• Water you don't trust or can't use. Also see Water.
• Residue from a treatment run before you. Also see Product.
• An old fuel or chemical area near the water. Also see Utilities.
• A water body with a history nobody wrote down. Also see Contamination.
• Contamination coming in from upstream. Also see Risk.
• Loading that spikes with every wet season. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What was on this site before the water. Also see Ground.
• Whether anything in the ground reaches the plants. Also see Plant.
• Whether anything in the water reaches your fish. Also see Animal.
• What all that treatment left behind. Also see Pest.
• Whether your water is clean and safe. Also see Water.
• What years of the same treatment built up. Also see Product.
• Whether the old site near the water matters. Also see Utilities.
• Whether your water would pass if somebody tested it. Also see Contamination.
• What's coming in from upstream or off the land. Also see Risk.
• What a wet season carries into your water. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Stop losing to the bank and the bed. Also see Ground.
• Plant to hold the shoreline in place. Also see Plant.
• Protect where the fishery or population is at risk. Also see Animal.
• Stop before an invasive spreads to the next body. Also see Pest.
• Keep from flooding or dropping where it shouldn't. Also see Water.
• Use without sending anything downstream. Also see Product.
• Site out of the water's reach. Also see Utilities.
• Clear before you take it on. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before a regulator or a neighbor does. Also see Risk.
• Hold up to whatever the season brings. Also see Climate.

• Banks and bed eroding into the water. Also see Ground.
• A shoreline with nothing left holding it. Also see Plant.
• A fishery or population at risk from the water itself. Also see Animal.
• An invasive spreading downstream or to the next body. Also see Pest.
• Flooding, dropping, or water moving where it shouldn't. Also see Water.
• Treatment flowing off your water onto others. Also see Product.
• A dock, structure, or building in the water's way. Also see Utilities.
• Contamination coming in from upstream. Also see Contamination.
• A regulation on your water you found out about the hard way. Also see Risk.
• Storms and floods that hit harder than they used to. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• How much bank and bed you're losing a year. Also see Ground.
• What would hold your worst shoreline. Also see Plant.
• What the water's condition means for the fishery. Also see Animal.
• What's spreading to or from your water. Also see Pest.
• Whether your water floods, drops, or moves as a risk. Also see Water.
• What you're sending downstream. Also see Product.
• Whether your structures sit where they should. Also see Utilities.
• What's actually coming in from upstream. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your water is regulated in ways you don't know. Also see Risk.
• What a hundred-year flood does to your water now. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Hold its bed and banks through the water's swings. Also see Ground.
• Plant to match the water and the season you have. Also see Plant.
• Keep your fish and life through the temperature swings. Also see Animal.
• Stay ahead of as bloom and pest seasons stretch. Also see Pest.
• Hold enough water through a dry stretch. Also see Water.
• Have work through the season's swings. Also see Product.
• Keep running through heat, freeze, and storm. Also see Utilities.
• Recover as the seasons work on it. Also see Contamination.
• Hold up to whatever the season brings. Also see Risk.
• Manage as the conditions keep changing. Also see Climate.

• Banks that wash out when the water rises. Also see Ground.
• Plants that can't take the water's rise and fall. Also see Plant.
• Fish that can't take the temperature swings. Also see Animal.
• Blooms and pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Pest.
• Water too low in the dry, too high in the wet. Also see Water.
• Treatment that works one season and fails the next. Also see Product.
• Systems that can't keep up with heat or freeze. Also see Utilities.
• Loading that spikes with every wet season. Also see Contamination.
• Storms and floods that hit harder than they used to. Also see Risk.
• A water body running on a season that's moved. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• How the ground handles the water's rise and fall. Also see Ground.
• How to plant for the water you actually have. Also see Plant.
• How the swings affect what lives in your water. Also see Animal.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Pest.
• Whether your water could hold through a drought. Also see Water.
• How your program should change with the season. Also see Product.
• What it'd take to keep systems running year round. Also see Utilities.
• What a wet season carries into your water. Also see Contamination.
• What a bad flood season is really costing you. Also see Risk.
• How much of a bad year is the season and how much is your water. Also see Climate.