The objective of this paper is to give a brief information about establishment and development of watershed management concept in forestry faculties and to discuss its strategies and responses to natural resources problems in the watersheds. Watershed management concept developed at department of forest resources or forestry in USA. In Turkey, the studies related to watershed management such as soil and water conservation, ran ge management, and land use planning were started at Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Institute of Forest Geography and Forest Problems of the Near East in 1951. In recent decades, watershed management has developed deeply and widely so as to deal with many problems and provide possible alternative solutions to natural resource problems in the watersheds.