Fish Passage

DG

Road density is fair (2.9 mi/sq mile).

H - Open three or more miles of good quality habitat used by at least one stock of salmon or steelhead.  Exceptions:  include very cost efficient projects addressing unique limiting habitat or benefiting multiple stocks of salmon or steelhead.   

H - Bridges are the preferred structure.  If culverts are used, they should be sized to allow full access to all fish species and life history stages.

M – New culvert structures should be sized to reflect expected increased flows. (High 20 – 30 year precipitation cycle expected).

M - Inventory, assess, and prioritize all habitat blockages (culverts, dikes, railroad grades, etc.) for all salmonid life history stages.  Specific to this sub-basin: the Cedar Creek Correctional Facility dam needs further assessment.

M - Develop a database housed with the lead entity, to contain all blockage data. 

Floodplain Conditions

Poor (DG)

H - Reconnect potential off-channel habitat.  

H – Maintain and conserve off-channel and side-channel habitat and associated riparian.

H - Inventory impacts and suitable restoration sites for floodplain habitat coincident with the barrier/culvert inventory.

Sediment

Fair (DG)

Known road density is fair.

H – Decommission roads at risk of landslide, especially side-cast roads.

H – Correct high impact road sediment delivery problems via push-outs, cross-drains, and sediment traps et.

H – Increase protection of steep and unstable slopes.

H – Stabilize and revegetate exposed mass wasting sites to reduce surface erosion.

H – Reduce livestock access to streams.

H - Inventory roads and assess impacts to salmonids and prioritize restoration actions accordingly.  

M – Conduct a landslide inventory.

M – Update the surface erosion degradation database collected in the Wampler et al. 1993 report.

LWD

DG

M - Actions are needed to increase LWD, or similarly functioning natural structures, in appropriate places.  This would include anchoring LWD and increasing natural recruitment potential (riparian restoration). 

H – Prevent removal of appropriate pieces of LWD, and other natural structures, within the floodplain through increased education and enforcement. 

M - Determine appropriateness through inventory or other assessment of LWD, or other natural structure(s), placement.  (e.g. gravel recruiting, hydrology, wood or structure size, gradient, near term LWD recruitment potential, and valley confinement).

Riparian

Poor – Lower

Good – Middle

Fair – Upper

(DG)

H - Revegetate open riparian areas with native plants including conifers in appropriate places.

M - Interplant conifer into hardwood riparian areas that were historically conifer areas.   

M- Plant conifer adjacent to and outside existing and limited existing conifer hardwood riparian areas.

H - Funds, lands, and easement opportunities should be identified to obtain areas of mid-to late seral stage riparian with priority given to older stands.  This is applicable to lands that do not have current protection such as those outside of current forest practice regulations.

H - Assess and prioritize recovery and protection for riparian conditions.

Water Quality

DG

M - Actions need to address sediment, riparian, and flow problems. 

H - Reduce livestock access to streams.    

M - Increase activities that lead to natural recharge of the aquifers and maintain or improve hydrological maturity. 

M - Restore wetlands and off-channel habitat.

H - Decrease activities that interfere with the natural recharge of aquifers or degrade hydrological maturity.

M – Water quality monitoring is needed (water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity).

Water Quantity

Good (DG)

Good hydrologic maturity.

M - Reduce water withdrawals from surface source. 

M - Increase activities that lead to natural recharge of the aquifers and maintain or improve hydrologic maturity. 

M - Restore wetlands and off-channel habitat.

H - Decrease activities that interfere with the natural recharge of aquifers or degrade hydrological maturity.

L – Install in-stream flow gage, and monitor stream flow.

Biological Processes

DG

L - Increase contribution of marine derived nutrients through increased use of carcasses.

H - Increase field surveys for salmonid escapement, distribution and habitat use by life history stage.

L - Assess marine-derived nutrient processes.