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.
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.
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...
Increase the patch size of suitable habitat to enhance viable populations and allow migratory life histories.
Maintain woody material or other habitat elements in the stream to create deeper pools.
Identify and map where groundwater inputs provide cold water.
Mitigate barriers to movement (e.g., dams, culverts) between currently occupied streams and those expected to remain suitable for bull trout.
Work with partner agencies to pulse flows from regulated streams when temperature is high in order to prevent the water...
Increase cold-water habitat by restoring the functionality of channels and floodplains to retain cool water and riparian vegetation.
Secure water rights for instream flows to maintain more control of overall water supply.