Habitat Conservation and Restoration

Contents

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

Limiting Factors

• ESA 4(d) Rules (Protective Regulations - National Marine Fisheries Service's
  • A Citizen's Guide to the 4(d) Rule for Threatened Salmon and Steelhead on the West Coast ( 889 KB) - National Marine Fisheries Service's 13 Limits
• Salmon Habitat Limiting Factors Annual Reports - Washington Conservation Commission

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
• Priority Habitats and Species, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
  • 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, Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration -  Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
  • Stream Bank Protection Reference Links -  Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Sample Habitat Conservation Plans

• Habitat Conservation Plans - National Marine Fisheries Service,  Northwest Region
• Washington Department of Natural Resources - Forest Practices Habitat Conservation Plan (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 and Wildlife, Habitat and Lands Environmental Engineering Division, March 3, 1999
• A Guide to Placing Large Wood in Streams ( 192 KB), Oregon Department of Forestry and Department of Fish and Wildlife, May 1995  via Society for Ecological Restoration International
• Stream Bank Protection, Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Oregon Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Guide (1999), Oregon Watershed Coordinating Board
• Stream Corridor Restoration, Principles, Processes and Practices, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Interagency Stream Restoration Working Group, October, 1998,
• Guidelines Internet Links and References in Aquatic Habitat Guidelines: An Integrated Approach to Marine, Freshwater, and Riparian Habitat Protection and Restoration - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Related 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