Topic: Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations.
Implement the Blackfeet Nation Bull Trout Management Plan that was developed in coordination with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Department.
Alter fishing regulations and practices to protect native fisheries, and bolster enforcement.
Coordinate with relevant managers to prevent cutting of forests and grazing near headwaters streams.
Stream restoration/stabilization of degraded streams.
Monitor and adhere to standards and guidelines for water quality.
Prioritize watershed restoration in the most important places, using climate change model predictions.
Protect stream and lake edges from cattle grazing (e.g. improve water quality by using fencing).
Protect cold stream temperatures in the summer, narrowing unnaturally widened channels, restoring and maintaining stream shade, and limiting grazing in...
Reduce cattle in riparian areas.
Weigh the advantages and risks of temporarily or permanently removing barriers for native fish to permit them to move to...
Provide off-stream or off-lake (water body) water sources for livestock.
Possibly assist migration to unpopulated water bodies. Only do this after weighing potential impacts to other species (i.e. How would...
