Approach
Increase habitat resilience for cold-water fish by restoring structure and function of streams.
Tactics
- Increase habitat and refugia in side channels.
- Protect wetland-fed streams that maintain higher summer flows.
- Restore structure and heterogeneity of stream channels.
- Reconnect floodplains to improve hyporheic and base flow conditions.
- Remove dikes and levees.
- Restore and protect riparian vegetation.
- Manage livestock grazing to restore ecological function of riparian vegetation and maintain streambank conditions.
- Reduce high road densities that are intercepting subsurface stream flows.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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