Topic: Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Restore riparian vegetation.
Maintain or restore American Beaver populations.
Increase the Fish & Wildlife Department’s understanding of secured water rights under the new Water Rights Compact and seek possibilities...
Understand the amount of water withdrawals for human use from within the boundaries of the Blackfeet Nation, and decide how...
Allow for more water to flow from regulated water bodies during low flow periods.
Investigate creating a reservoir on the Willow Creek stream to help with flooding and to maintain water for later use.
Explore the possibility of building beaver dam analogues (beaver mimicry) to increase natural water storage and repair riparian habitat.
Remove or relocate roads away from stream channels and floodplains, where especially sensitive.
Reduce interactions between native and nonnative fish species, facilitating movement of native fish to streams with suitable temperatures, increasing the...
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...
