Flow and Water Quality Activities

• Continue and expand stream flow gage monitoring;
• Continue and expand temperature and water quality (dissolved oxygen, suspended sediment) monitoring;
• Conserve water during the late summer and early fall low flow periods.

Erosion and Sediment

• Continue to assess, storm proof, and decommission roads to reduce sediment delivery to the streams. This is the second priority;
• Identify and treat sediment sources such as bank erosion, road erosion, gullies, road-stream crossing failures, skid trails, and erosion features;
• Assess and treat culverts where necessary;
• Use exclusion fencing where there is evidence of stream bank erosion caused by grazing livestock.

Riparian and Instream Habitat

• Initiate tree planting, thinning, and other vegetation management to hasten the development of a denser, more extensive and diverse riparian canopy;
• Add Large Woody Debris and shelter structure to increase shelter/cover for juvenile salmonids;
• Reduce livestock and feral pig access to the riparian zone;
• Monitor instream and hillslope conditions;
• Ensure that stream reaches with high quality habitat are protected from degradation.

Education, Research, and Monitoring

• Support the monitoring of water quality, instream and estuary habitat conditions, and hillslopes;
• Evaluate fish rescue activities and continue if deemed appropriate.