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 water quality and sediment transport. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Support and promote the use of Farm Bill programs by private landowners that improve ability to retain nutrients and minimize...
Work with state, federal and willing private partners to reduce or avoid citing projects that alter runoff or impede natural...
Work with state and federal agencies, irrigation districts, and landowners on developing wetlands on irrigation returns to improve water quality.
Plant and maintain riparian vegetation between pastures and waterways to help filter and minimize high-nutrient runoff.
Minimize sedimentation and erosion due to roads, such as by using proper planning and engineering techniques, to ensure adverse effects...
Increase acreage of riparian habitat in protected status.