Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Enhancing adaptive capacity in Tribal communities
• Quaking Aspen: Increased pathogens: Aspen has low susceptibility to insect damage, except in urban plantings and stem canker diseases.
• Quaking Aspen: General
• Forest Ecosystem: Potential increase in invasive species. Prevent widespread outbreaks of invasive species or pathogens.
• Forest Ecosystem: Potential increase in invasive species. Increase forest landscape resilience to large and extensive insect or pathogen outbreaks.
• Forest Ecosystem: Increased risk of insects and pathogens. Increase resilience of forest stands to disturbance by increasing tree vigor.
• Forest Ecosystem: Increased risk of insects and pathogens. Promote diverse native species and forest structure.
• Forest Ecosystem: Monitor and update management plans.
• Forest Ecosystems: Climate education and community engagement.
• Forest Ecosystem: Increased risk of drought and more frequent or intense wildfires. Use native as well as drought and future temperature tolerant species in restoration efforts post disturbance.
• Forest Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Prevent loss of culturally important populations of vascular and nonvascular species.
• Forest Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Increase habitat connectivity.
• Forest Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Increase habitat quality and biodiversity.
• Forest Ecosystem: Non-climate stressors. Protect existing and potential future habitat.
• Forest Ecosystem: Non-climate stressors. Reduce browsing pressure on aspen.
• Forest Ecosystem: Potential increase in invasive species. Increase invasive species control efforts.
• Columbia Spotted Frog
• Columbia Spotted Frog: Prevent establishment of predators/competitors that could amplify climate impacts on native amphibians.
• Columbia Spotted Frog: Protect existing populations from climate and non-climate stressors.
• Columbia Spotted Frog: Reintroduce animals to areas where they have been extirpated and are still likely to be viable frog habitat in the future.
• Columbia Spotted Frog: Focus adaptation activities in areas identified as climate refugia.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Changes in sediment transport. Reduce water turbidity levels by reducing sediment loading and facilitating sediment deposition.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Potential increase in invasive species. Increase invasive species control efforts.
• Riparian Ecosystems: Potential increase in invasive species. Prevent invasive species from establishing after disturbances.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Climate education. Enhance outreach and educational activities around riparian issues.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Increased risk of drought. Maintain and enhance riparian forest productivity regardless of tree species; focus on functional ecosystems and processes.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Increased risk of drought. Store more water on the landscape to reduce impacts to riparian habitats.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Increased risk of drought. Protect and increase instream flows.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Decrease erosion potential by reseeding and restoration, which can be used following disturbances and for vulnerable exposed soil surfaces (near roads, or after fire).
• Riparian Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Prevent loss of relict populations of vascular and nonvascular riparian species.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Monitor and detect change in seedling survival, species composition, and mortality of mature trees in subalpine forests.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Shifts in the distribution of forests and vegetation. Increase late-successional habitat area and habitat quality.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Changes in phenology and species interactions (e.g., predation, competition) of riparian species. Increase resilience of riparian habitat by preserving biodiversity.
• Riparian Ecosystem: Changes in phenology and species interactions (e.g., predation, competition) of riparian species. Monitor and prioritize regions for riparian management.
• Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Changes in water quality and sediment transport.
• Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Potential increase in invasive species.
• Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Non-climate stressors.
• Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Climate outreach and education.
• Redband Trout: Collaboration.
• Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Changes in hydrologic flows.
• Redband Trout: Habitat suitability.
• Redband Trout: Habitat connectivity.
• Redband Trout: Fish populations.
• Redband Trout: Competition.
• Redband Trout: Water quality.
• Chinook Salmon (Warming stream temperatures, changes in winter stream peak flows, and changes in water quality): Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures.
• Chinook Salmon (Warming stream temperatures, changes in winter stream peak flows, and changes in water quality): Changes in water quality and sediment transport.
• Chinook Salmon (Warming stream temperatures, changes in winter stream peak flows, and changes in water quality): Changes in hydrologic flows.
• Chinook Salmon (Warming stream temperatures, changes in winter stream peak flows, and changes in water quality).
• Chinook Salmon (Warming stream temperatures, changes in winter stream peak flows, and changes in water quality): Climate outreach and education.
• Bull Trout (changes in winter peak flows, warmer water temperatures and increase in nonnative fish species): Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures.
• Bull Trout (changes in winter peak flows, warmer water temperatures and increase in nonnative fish species): Potential increase in invasive species.
• Bull Trout (changes in winter peak flows, warmer water temperatures and increase in nonnative fish species): Changes in water quality and sediment transport.
• Bull Trout (changes in winter peak flows, warmer water temperatures and increase in nonnative fish species): Additional climate and weather related stressors on habitats.
• Bull Trout (changes in winter peak flows, warmer water temperatures and increase in nonnative fish species): Non-climate stressors.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Climate outreach and education. Increase public education regarding vulnerable species
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Changes in phenology and freshwater species interactions. Improve understanding of changes in, and implications of, phenological changes and species interactions.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Potential increase in invasive species. Stop the arrival of non-native species to reduce the risk of invasive species.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Potential increase in diseases and parasites. Improve monitoring for fish disease and parasites.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Changes in water quality. Improve understanding of changes in water quality in response to climate change.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Additional climate and weather related stressors on habitat. Restore habitat necessary to the survival of salmonids.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures. Increase aquatic habitat resilience to low summer flows.
• Aqautic Ecosystem: Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures. Increase aquatic habitat resilience to low summer flows.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures. Increase understanding of thermal tolerance of fish species
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures. Reduce migration/dispersal barriers to fish populations (e.g., culverts, dams, etc.)
• Reduce migration/dispersal barriers to fish populations (e.g., culverts, dams, etc.)
• Mule Deer
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Increased winter flooding. Improve flood storage capacity to maximize the benefits of spring flows.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Increased winter flooding. Increase fish habitat resilience to higher winter streamflows by restoring stream structure and ecological function.
• Aquatic Ecosystem: Increased winter flooding. Develop better information about winter streamflow regimes
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Shifting hydrologic conditions. Manage for snowpack retention.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Increased risk of drought and more frequent or intense wildfires. Prepare for a greater area burned in wet meadows.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Increased conifer/tree encroachment and establishment. Monitor, manage, and create wet meadow habitat where tree encroachment is occuring.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Reduce existing stressors (e.g., grazing and recreation). Limit the impact of livestock grazing, where feasible.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Reduce existing stressors (e.g., grazing and recreation). Limit the impact of road access and recreation in wet meadow habitat, where feasible.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Monitor and evaluate wet meadow habitat.
• Black Tail Jackrabbit: Enhance Habit Connectivity
• Black Tail Jackrabbit: Address existing stressors. Reduce mortality.
• Black Tail Jackrabbit: Increases in disease.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Shifting hydrologic conditions. Restore floodplain function
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Shifting hydrologic conditions. Promote the use of native genotypes and adapted genotypes of native species in restoration activities.
• Wet Meadow Ecosystem: Shifting hydrologic conditions. Maintain or restore natural water retention in wet meadow habitat to buffer against future changes.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Outreach/education.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Monitoring and evaluation.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Coordination.
• Elk
• Black Tail Jackrabbit: Habitat Protection
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Enhanced outreach and education on Sagebrush Steppe Issues.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Wildfire.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Reduce competition from invasive species.
• Big Sagebrush: habitat fragmentation from grazing, invasive species, and fire are affecting Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Habitat protection.
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem: Reducing existing stressor. Establish conservation and protected areas to expand the area of suitable sagebrush habitat under future climate conditions
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Invasive species expansion. Increase invasive species control efforts.
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Invasive species expansion. Prevent invasive species from establishing after disturbances.
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Invasive species expansion. Prevent widespread outbreaks of invasive species or pathogens.
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Invasive species expansion. Increase resilience by promoting native genotypes and adapted genotypes of native species.
• Increases in frequency and severity of wildfires throughout entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Plan and prepare for greater area burned.
• Increases in frequency and severity of wildfires throughout entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem. Increase resilience through post-fire management
• Increases in frequency and severity of wildfires throughout entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem.
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem: Shifts in habitat and species distributions. Prevent loss of relict populations of vascular and nonvascular species
• Entire Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem: Shifts in habitat and species distributions. Increase habitat connectivity