Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Steelhead (moderate to high vulnerability to warmer water temperatures and lower spring/summer flows, as well as increased high flow events): Changes in hydrologic flows. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Manage for diverse, healthy plant communities able to resist stresses including drought and drought-mediated impacts such as invasion by nonnative...
Restore American beaver (Castor canadensis) in smaller stream reaches as a climate adaptation strategy to increase capacity for water storage...
Increase tributary connectivity to benefit native fish populations and assure proper hydrologic function of off-channel habitat (floodplains, side-channels, wetlands, alcoves,...
Work with partners, including private landowners, to assess and implement ways to increase capacity and water storage, such as American...
Implement fish screening in tributaries after dewatering and passage issues are resolved.
Implement irrigation efficiencies to improve minimum streamflows.
Purchase instream water rights or negotiate flow agreements with water users to enhance instream flows.
Consolidate irrigation ditches to increase water savings.
Maintain hydrologic function within watersheds to enhance water-holding capacity and maintain water-dependent native plant communities.
Enhance natural storage of water in headwaters or major rivers and streams.