Approach
Manage water to maintain springs and wetlands; improve soil quality and stability.
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.
Strategy
Citation
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 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.