Approach
Plan and prepare for more frequent and severe flood events.
Tactics
- Restore native plant species in riparian areas.
- Control invasive plant species in flood-prone reaches.
- Expand current restoration projects to mitigate increasing flood risk.
- Avoid committing resources for restoration projects in areas with high flood risk; prioritize areas with low flood risk.
- Use natural flood protection (e.g., vegetation or engineered logjams).
- Assess the health and resilience of the system and prioritize management areas based on assessment.
- Refine and revise stream health protocol to capture flow regime change.
- Monitor for and control invasive and undesirable non-native species in the flood-prone areas, including the 100-year floodplain.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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