• Fish barriers were found at culverts, perched sediment deltas, or boulder and/or debris accumulations.
• Facilitate fish passage at sites that may impede upstream fish passage into tributary streams for spawning or downstream movements.

Flow and Water Quality Improvement Activities:

• Water flow does not appear to be and issue at this time over most of the basin. However, fish habitat requirements and channel maintenance flows should be considered prior to any water development projects including riparian diversions and small domestic water use;
• In order to help reduce water temperature in tributaries and the mainstem, ensure that near stream forest management encourages growth and retention of conifers sufficient for providing shade and cool micro climate benefits to stream and riparian zones;
• Consider using willow baffles, tree planting or other applicable methods to promote effective shading from riparian trees and to reduce the channel width along reaches of Redwood Creek;
• Timber harvests or other land use should be conducted in a manner that does not increase peak flows, accelerate runoff rates, or deliver excessive sediment to stream channels;

Erosion and Sediment Delivery Reduction Activities:

• Existing sediment production problem sites that have potential to deliver sediments to streams should be evaluated and mitigated;
• Since timber harvesting and other land use can cause disturbances that may contribute to slope instability, management on slopes with high landslide potential and/or on lands adjacent to streams should first involve a risk assessment or be avoided. Determination of appropriate practices should be made through the use of the CGS landslide and landslide potential maps, in conjunction with site-based geological examinations by licensed and appropriately trained geologists;
• For timber management on steep and/or potentially unstable slopes (in many cases, slopes greater than 35%) we recommend use of lower impact silvicultural prescriptions to maintain vegetative cover and the use of cable or helicopter yarding to reduce the potential for erosion and sediment production, which can result in sediment accumulation in Redwood Creek;
• Landowners should continue road erosion hazard surveys throughout the basin and use this information to set priorities for road removals and upgrades, and implement these improvements as rapidly as private and public funding allow. Roads located on unstable slopes and roads near streams should receive high priority for survey and upgrades and decommissioning projects;
• Consider avoidance or mitigation for risks of excessive erosion when planning, building or removing roads in or near deep-seated landslides and earthflows;
• Reduce road density across the basin especially in the Middle and Upper subbasins;
• If new roads need to be constructed, they should be designed to prevent erosion and not be located near the valley bottom where they may pose a high risk of generating sediment delivery to streams. Consider locating roads along ridge tops where feasible;
• The use of fire for site preparation purposes should be minimized on schist soils during warm, dry periods (late summer and fall).

Riparian and Stream Habitat Improvement Activities:

• To increase shade canopy, promote growth and retention of large conifers in the riparian corridor along mainstem Redwood Creek;
• Where current near stream forest canopy is strongly dominated by hardwoods and site conditions are appropriate, land managers should consider cautious thinning of hardwoods from below to hasten the development of denser and more extensive coniferous canopy component;
• To address the lack of large woody debris in many tributary channels and along the Redwood Creek mainstem, management should promote growth of near stream conifers and allow natural recruitment of trees to stream channels;
• Where near stream conifers are not large enough to function as naturally occurring scour elements, consider importing LWD from nearby hillslopes for placement in locations and orientations where it will provide beneficial habitat elements and will not accelerate adverse bank erosion;
• Add combinations of boulders and LWD to increase shelter complexity to cool water patches located in Redwood Creek. The cool patches may be located in temperature stratified pools or adjacent cool water inputs from springs, seeps and tributary flows;
• For timber harvest plans in the Upper and Middle subbasins, consider additional measures to increase function of watercourse protection zones when justified by lack of large conifers to provide shade and microclimate, lack of instream LWD, and low LWD loading potential;
• Consider the use of conservation easements or other management strategies to maximize potential benefits to aquatic habitats from near stream forest protection along the middle and upper reaches of Redwood Creek;
• Consider limiting cattle access in streams where their presence has caused significant bank erosion and impaired growth of vegetation;
• Prescribed fire use within the Redwood Creek basin could reduce adverse impacts to watercourses and wet areas. Regular use of prescribed fire could reduce fuels so that catastrophic fires are less likely to occur.