Habitat Conservation and Restoration

Contents

• Limiting Factors
• Habitat Conservation
  • Habitat Conservation Guidelines
  • Sample Habitat Conservation Plans
• Habitat Restoration Guides and Guidelines
• Related MRSC Pages
  • Critical Areas
  • Watersheds

Limiting Factors

• ESA 4(d) Rules (Protective Regulations), National Marine Fisheries Service
  • A Citizen's Guide to the 4(d) Rule for Threatened Salmon and Steelhead on the West Coast (), 06/20/2000 - National Marine Fisheries Service's 13 Limits
• Salmon Habitat Limiting Factors Annual Reports, Washington Conservation Commission

Habitat Conservation

Habitat Conservation Guidelines

• NOAA Restoration Center
• NOAA Habitat Conservation Division
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Habitat
  • Habitat Conservation Handbook, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service
  • What is a Habitat Conservation Plan and Incidental Take Permit?, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
  • Priority Habitats and Species
  • Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
  • Hydraulic Process Approval Program (HPA) Task Force, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
  • Stream Bank Protection Reference Links - Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife

Sample Habitat Conservation Plans

• Habitat Conservation Plans, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region
• Forest Practices Habitat Conservation Plan, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Federal Assurances Program
• Douglas County Multi Species Habitat Conservation Plan, Foster Creek Conservation District
• Chelan-Douglas PUD Habitat Conservation Plans
• Seattle Habitat Conservation Plan for the Cedar River Watershed
• Tacoma Water Habitat Conservation Plan

Habitat Restoration Guides and Guidelines

• A Citizen's Guide to Habitat Conservation Plans, Audubon Society
• California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual, California Department of Fish and Game, Inland Fisheries Division, 3rd edition, 1998
• Fish Passage Design at Road Culverts, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife, Habitat and Lands Environmental Engineering Division, 03/03/1999
• A Guide to Placing Large Wood in Streams (), Oregon Department of Forestry and Department of Fish and Wildlife, via Society for Ecological Restoration International, 05/1995
• Land Use Planning for Salmon, Steelhead and Trout: A Land Use Planner’s Guide to Salmonid Habitat Protection and Recovery, by Katie Knight, principal Author, 2009 - A publication of Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Stream Bank Protection, Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Oregon Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Guide, Oregon Watershed Coordinating Board, 1999
• Stream Corridor Restoration, Principles, Processes and Practices, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Interagency Stream Restoration Working Group, 10/1998
• Guidelines Internet Links and References in Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration,Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife

Related MRSC Resources
MRSC Index – Fish and wildlife conservation, habitat conservation, biological assessment, habitat assessment, habitat restoration
MRSC Index – Endangered Species Act (ESA)
MRSC Index – Salmon, salmonids