Human- and climate-mediated impacts to watersheds continue to mount nationally, from the accumulated effects of many small-scale actions (e.g. construction of new roads and neighborhoods) to large-scale development (e.g., port facilities) or climate anomalies affecting critically important watershed processes. While water resource issues are often discussed among western States, this issue came to the forefront in the Southeast during a wide-spread drought of 2005 to 2007.