Manage water to maintain springs and wetlands; improve soil quality and stability

Approach

Tactics

Monitor recreation usage and manage impacts.
Reduce ungulate trampling with fencing and livestock use changes.
Maintain water on site through water conservation techniques such as float valves, diversion valves, and hose pumps.
Encourage spring development project designs that will ensure water flows for native species and habitat.
Develop a national groundwater protection program.
Preserve cold-water refugia.

Sensitivity

• Changes in timing/ type (rain versus snow)/ and quantity of precipitation may alter water supply during the growing season- thus altering biotic productivity and diversity in springs and wetlands.

Strategy

Sustain fundamental physical and ecological functions; Maintain and enhance hydrologic processes