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

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Blackfeet Nation

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

Cultural Resources Ecosystems Water
Blackfeet Nation

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

Cultural Resources Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

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

Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

Reduce cattle in riparian areas.

Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

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

Cultural Resources Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

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

Ecosystems Food Water
Blackfeet Nation

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

Cultural Resources Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

Reduce the frequency and severity of fires where appropriate and possible, reducing hazardous fuels and employing erosion control structures after...

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Blackfeet Nation

Protect redds from scouring after heavy precipitation, using erosion control structures (e.g. water checks like logs, rocks, etc.) after big...

Cultural Resources Ecosystems
Blackfeet Nation

Ensure effective passages for aquatic organisms, and include fish ladders on impassable dams and diversions.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems Food
Blackfeet Nation

Restore riparian vegetation.

Ecosystems
Blackfeet Nation

Maintain or restore American Beaver populations.

Cultural Resources Ecosystems