Tribe: Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and 1854 Treaty Authority
View Source Document: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan: 1854 Ceded Territory Including the Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, and Grand Portage Reservations
Year: 2016
Topic: Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Impacts to Sturgeon: Conservation, Preservation, and Maintenance (View All Topics in the Plan)
Continue efforts to sustainably manage harvest, including developing and enforcing harvest regulations.
Continue sea lamprey control and monitoring efforts.
Target invasive species control efforts (especially for round goby) in those areas with sturgeon spawning beds.
Explore landscape water retention projects to protect habitat against extreme runoff events and low flow/high temperature events (e.g. increase and/or...
On regulated streams, pulse flows during critical times (e.g. lower flows coupled with high temperatures), sourcing from below the thermocline.