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. (View All Topics in the Plan)
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.
Evaluate the degree to which management actions, such as riparian restoration, could make the difference between bull trout persistence and...
Facilitate movement of trout populations to locations with suitable stream temperatures.
Increase the patch size of suitable habitat to enhance viable populations and allow migratory life histories.
