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Increase habitat resilience for cold-water fish by restoring structure and function of streams

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Approach

Increase habitat resilience for cold-water fish by restoring structure and function of streams

Tactics

  • Increase habitat and refugia in side channels
  • Protect wetland-fed streams that maintain higher summer flows
  • Restore structure and heterogeneity of stream channels
  • Reconnect floodplains to improve hyporheic and base flow conditions
  • Remove dikes and levees
  • Restore and protect riparian vegetation
  • Manage livestock grazing to restore ecological function of riparian vegetation and maintain streambank conditions
  • Reduce high road densities that are intercepting subsurface stream flows

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., Raymond, C.L.; Peterson, D.L.; Rochefort, R.M. (2013). The North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership: a science-management collaboration for responding to climate change. Sustainability. 5: 136–159., 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., 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., Hudec, J.L.; Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J., eds. (201X). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in Southwest Washington. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. In press.,
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