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Reduce riparian impacts by storing more water on the landscape

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Approach

Reduce riparian impacts by storing more water on the landscape

Tactics

  • Inventory current and potential habitat
  • Increase beaver populations with translocation and trapping to create more wetland habitat
  • Restore riparian habitat by planting willows
  • managing grazing
  • and raising water level
  • Use snow fences and reflective tarps to retain snow in critical areas

Citation

Raymond, C.L.; Peterson, D.L.; Rochefort, R.M., eds. (2014). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the North Cascades region. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-892. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., 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.,
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