Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Elk
Enhance resilience of wet meadows and riparian habitats within sagebrush shrublands by constructing restoration structures, which increase stream function and...
Provide comprehensive technical training to biologists and managers on disease and parasite detection, identification, surveillance, monitoring, and management.
Monitor the effects of harvest levels on population demographics and abundance. Use monitoring data to set and adjust harvest rates,...
Educate the public about potential changes in Elk populations due to climate change.
Limit roads, trails, other infrastructure, etc., to locations that avoid habitat components important to seasonal wildlife use.
Provide additional sources of water, especially during droughts and summer months.
Identify locations/situations where Mule Deer and Elk competitive interactions may exist (i. e., winter range) and develop recommendations to reduce...
Develop a west-wide Elk disease and parasite monitoring plan that recommends standardized surveillance, testing, data storage and reporting procedures.
Monitor populations and consider adjusting hunting permits, as needed, to ensure a healthy population.
Improve sagebrush steppe habitat connectivity.
Work to maintain vegetative species diversity within the landscape.
Reduce cheatgrass abundance.