Approach
Address demands for water (including water rights) and improve water conservation.
Tactics
- Conduct integrated assessment of water and local effects of climate change
- Implement vegetation treatments in high water retention areas
- Improve efficiency of drainage and ditches
- Encourage communication and full disclosure information
- Conduct vulnerability assessments by community
- Treat roads where needed to retain water and maintain high water quality
- Diversify sources of water; rely less on surface water
- and consider using low volume wells.
- Find better source locations for livestock and other uses.
- Align consumptive uses (such as stocking rates in allotments) with available water resources.
- Design stream crossing that have a low flow channel; make an inset floodplain to maintain summer connectivity in the stream network.
Citation
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Blue Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-939. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., Peterson, D.L.; Halofsky, J.E. (2018). Adapting to the effects of climate change on natural resources in the Blue Mountains, USA. Climate Services. 10: 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.005., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J. (201X). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in south central Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. In press., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change and Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Advances in Global Change Research, Volume 63. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.