Fish Passage

DG. High road density.

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 species and life history stages.

H - Inventory, assess, and prioritize all habitat blockages (culverts, dikes, railroad grades, etc.) for all salmonid life history stages. 

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

Floodplain Conditions

DG

H - Reconnect potential off-channel habitat. 

H - Restoration actions need to increase instream LWD to help address channel incision and flow issues.  This includes appropriate riparian restoration to result in better future LWD levels.

H – Maintain, prioritize, 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.

H - Map historic versus current floodplain conditions.

Sediment

Poor (DG)

Confined streams with low gradient, landslides due to recent timber harvest in geologically sensitive areas,

high road density, high levels of bank erosion.

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

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

H - Increase protection of steep and unstable slopes.

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

M - Reduce livestock access to streams.

L - Provide education regarding the impacts of livestock access and increase enforcement.

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

LWD

Poor in lower (DG).

H - 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. 

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

Riparian

Fair (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 – Continue enforcement and revision of current regulations that preserve and enhance riparian regeneration.

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

Water Quality

DG

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

M- Reduce livestock access to streams.    

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

H - Restore wetlands and off-channel habitat.

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

H - Monitor water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity.

Water Quantity

Poor (DG)

Poor hydrologic maturity, concern about increased peak flows.

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

H - Reduce water withdrawals from both surface and ground sources.

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

H -Restore wetlands and off-channel habitat.

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

M - Install 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.