Topic: Naturalize hydrologic processes, increasing summer flows and decreasing winter flows
Reduce artificial channelization (e.g. ditches), reduce groundwater withdrawals, protect wetlands (especially upslope wetlands) reconnect and restore floodplains and floodplain vegetation.
Identify and protect cold-water sources and the habitats and hydrologic processes that produce them.
Remove and/or set back levees.
Remove bank armoring and revetments.
Reconnect and restore floodplains and floodplain vegetation.
Avoid simple responses to flood hazards – understand processes responsible for causing hazards and use process based approaches to address...
Protect and restore wetlands.
Restore beaver populations.
Update culverts and other conveyances to allow increases in flow and improve salmon access.
Update stormwater systems to decrease surface water conveyance to streams, store water, and recharge aquifers.
Support complex habitat formation and groundwater exchange by supporting recruitment of large wood or engineering log jams.
Avoid hydrologic impacts of timber harvest by avoiding hydrologically important areas, and increasing the length of harvest rotation.