The Greater Redstone Clearwater Initiative strives to achieve its mission and realize its vision for the Greater Redstone watershed in a number of ways.

The Greater Redstone Clearwater Initiative is working to protect the natural resources in the Greater Redstone watershed, including our waterways, our land, and our community.

• Promoting wise land use and responsible management of natural resources, especially when dealing with issues and landowners affecting water quality of the watershed by providing relevant information and education to watershed landowners.
• Protecting and enhancing open space, natural areas, and wildlife habitat.
• Providing opportunities for enjoyment of natural areas by supporting local initiatives to develop parks, trails, and other natural areas.
• Promoting technology to reduce the impacts of abandoned mine drainage by investing in exploration of remediation techniques.
• Promoting education, generating appreciation, and raising public awareness of environmental issues in the watershed by submitting articles to local papers, and distributing information in the community through newsletters.
• Actively involving the public through community events, such as dump site cleanups and community workshops.
• Serving as a source of information and providing leadership toward further improvements in our watershed community.
• Designing, constructing, and maintaining properly operated reclamation systems controlling pollution from abandoned mines.
• Working toward removal and reuse of all coal refuse (gob) piles in the watershed.
• Advocating for responsibly managed active mining sites that do not degrade our environment.
• Promoting and assisting in planting well maintained riparian buffers of native vegetation along stable, naturally flowing stream corridors.
• Supporting separated storm and sanitary sewers with well maintained and operated treatment plants providing adequate treatment for all incoming flow.
• Advocating for properly maintained on-lot sewage systems and elimination of all sewage discharges directly into streams.
• Working toward development of a comprehensive storm water management plan implemented across the entire watershed.
• Working toward permanent elimination of all illegal dump sites in the watershed.
• Promoting and helping to implement agricultural best management practices on all farms in the watershed to prevent water pollution from excessive nutrient loading, streambank erosion, and livestock waste while providing visible connections to our agricultural history.
• Advocating for well maintained dirt and gravel roads that do not contribute excessive sediment to waterways within the watershed.
• Promoting planting and protection of native species and removal of invasive plant species.
• Protection and expansion, where appropriate, of locally rare plant and animal species
• Promoting viable, diverse native wildlife populations, protection and restoration of key habitats and habitat linkages.
• Promoting heritage including the role of agriculture, coal mining, coke production, environmental reclamation, and native Americans through identification, preservation, and interpretation of historically significant sites embodying this history.