Topic: Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations.

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Blackfeet Nation

Implement the Blackfeet Nation Bull Trout Management Plan that was developed in coordination with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Department.

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Blackfeet Nation

Alter fishing regulations and practices to protect native fisheries, and bolster enforcement.

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Blackfeet Nation

Coordinate with relevant managers to prevent cutting of forests and grazing near headwaters streams.

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Blackfeet Nation

Stream restoration/stabilization of degraded streams.

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Blackfeet Nation

Monitor and adhere to standards and guidelines for water quality.

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Blackfeet Nation

Prioritize watershed restoration in the most important places, using climate change model predictions.

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Blackfeet Nation

Protect stream and lake edges from cattle grazing (e.g. improve water quality by using fencing).

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Blackfeet Nation

Protect cold stream temperatures in the summer, narrowing unnaturally widened channels, restoring and maintaining stream shade, and limiting grazing in...

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Blackfeet Nation

Reduce cattle in riparian areas.

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Blackfeet Nation

Weigh the advantages and risks of temporarily or permanently removing barriers for native fish to permit them to move to...

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Blackfeet Nation

Provide off-stream or off-lake (water body) water sources for livestock.

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Blackfeet Nation

Possibly assist migration to unpopulated water bodies. Only do this after weighing potential impacts to other species (i.e. How would...

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