Topic: Naturalize hydrologic processes, increasing summer flows and decreasing winter flows

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Tulalip Tribe

Reduce artificial channelization (e.g. ditches), reduce groundwater withdrawals, protect wetlands (especially upslope wetlands) reconnect and restore floodplains and floodplain vegetation.

Ecosystems Water
Tulalip Tribe

Identify and protect cold-water sources and the habitats and hydrologic processes that produce them.

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Remove and/or set back levees.

Ecosystems Water
Tulalip Tribe

Remove bank armoring and revetments.

Ecosystems Water
Tulalip Tribe

Reconnect and restore floodplains and floodplain vegetation.

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Avoid simple responses to flood hazards – understand processes responsible for causing hazards and use process based approaches to address...

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Protect and restore wetlands.

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Restore beaver populations.

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Update culverts and other conveyances to allow increases in flow and improve salmon access.

Ecosystems Food Water
Tulalip Tribe

Update stormwater systems to decrease surface water conveyance to streams, store water, and recharge aquifers.

Ecosystems Water
Tulalip Tribe

Support complex habitat formation and groundwater exchange by supporting recruitment of large wood or engineering log jams.

Ecosystems
Tulalip Tribe

Avoid hydrologic impacts of timber harvest by avoiding hydrologically important areas, and increasing the length of harvest rotation.

Ecosystems