Topic: Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations.
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...
Hire a fish biologist.
Restore floodplains and channels so they store cool water.
Ensure effective passages for aquatic organisms, and include fish ladders on impassable dams and diversions.
