Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: 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.
Enhance connectivity within and among watersheds.
Develop distributional monitoring protocols that focus on temporal patterns of occurrence within suitable habitat patches by using GIS to stratify...
Use the British Columbia Forest Range Act as a tool to help designate additional protection for riparian areas along critical...
Investigate the feasibility and benefit of manually transporting bull trout around thermal barriers in streams.
Restore aquatic organism passage through design and placement of appropriate structures.
Maintain or restore American beaver populations to provide a natural engineering alternative for cool water retention where beaver and management...
Reduce water withdrawals for various human uses while improving efficiency for agriculture, municipal, and industrial uses where water demands overlap...
Maintain functional stream channel morphology with adequate width:depth ratios, pool frequency, and healthy riparian vegetation.
Along streams, protect and restore native trees and shrubs to keep water temperatures sufficiently cool.
Exclude cattle from riparian areas to prevent loss of vegetative cover.
Improve understanding of changes in, and implications of, phenological changes and species interactions by, for example, monitoring phenological changes and...
Identify areas that will remain cold enough to support bull trout across a range of climate scenarios.