Topic: Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations.
Educate the public on best fishing practices.
Investigate ending gill-netting in other water bodies (gill-netting is not allowed on St. Mary Lake due to bull trout in...
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...
Increase communication and cooperation among the departments most responsible for fish habitat, while engaging the Tribal Council: Environment (water quality),...
Consult with the Nonpoint Source Program, which has a management plan with best management practices to reduce habitat impacts which...
Hire a fish biologist.