Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Aquatic Ecosystem: Declining summer stream flows and warming summer stream temperatures. Increase aquatic habitat resilience to low summer flows. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Restore riparian areas to maintain summer base flows and reduce water temperatures, and consider riparian treatments that enhance these benefits.
When forest management activities are proposed on sites determined to have high erosion risk: (a) establish a Riparian Management Zone...
Prevent livestock grazing in the riparian zone (i.e., install localized fencing) and other ecologically sensitive zones, especially when there is...
Pulse flows from regulated streams during critical high temperature times.
Restore beaver habitat and beaver populations to maintain summer base flows, reduce peak flow increase, and reduce water temperatures.
Increase stream complexity to provide refugia during low flow events (i.e., maintain woody material and/or boulders in the stream reach).
Consider the creation of "streamside management zones" (SMZ), whose widths are directly dependent on SMZ slope and stream class. Stream...
