Tribe: Shoshone Paiute Tribes
View Source Document: Shoshone Paiute Tribes Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2020
Topic: Ensure that the Riparian and Wet Meadow Ecosystem is thriving, vibrant, and resilient.
Coordinate with tribal departments and regional partners to anticipate new proposals for development of water infrastructure (i.e. additional diversions or...
Investigate beaver dam analog technologies that allows for the manual release of water if needed.
Plan the implementation of beaver dam analog technologies that allows for the manual release of water if needed.
Fund the implementation of beaver dam analog technologies that allows for the manual release of water if needed.
Continue to invest in monitoring surface and ground water quality and quantity parameters such as dissolved oxygen, nutrients, pH, turbidity,...
Identify high-value areas to increase stream complexity to support refugia during low flow events (i.e., maintain woody material and/or boulders...
Support mitigation efforts associated with the raising of China diversion dam.
Consider the creation of "streamside management zones" (SMZ), whose widths are directly dependent on slope and stream class.
Support Blue Creek mitigation project that will raise roadbed and store more water on the landscape.
Map riparian areas that lack canopy cover and experience high water temperatures.
Map locations upstream of the China Diversion Dam where beaver release or beaver dam analogs could benefit water retention on...
Maintain or restore riparian vegetation to high-value areas in order to limit channel exposure to solar radiation.
