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Foster efforts to understand and implement appropriate management techniques (e.g., prescribed fire or thinning) for the benefit of the broadest array of oak forest-dependent wildlife, while taking into account specific needs of wildlife with more restrictive requirements (Artman and Downhower 2003; Ford et al. 2000). +
Expand hatchery facilities to increase capacity for propagation of priority and nongame species. +
Manage the existing conservation lands, including the use of prescribed burning to diversify structure and composition of forest understory, and other silvicultural techniques to promote regeneration. This provides an array of age class and structural composition, and promotes long-term economic sustainability of montane oak forests. +
Ensure that management of riverine habitats promotes the natural evolution and movement of woody and rocky structures and natural processes like bank dynamics, channel meanders, and flood regimes. +
Reintroduction of fire to unconverted nonalluvial mineral wetland sites is the single most important factor to restore these sites. +
Plowed firelines along transition zones between habitats should be rehabilitated (smoothed over) where possible. New firelines should be constructed when necessary. These areas should be maintained as a permanent narrow opening by discing with a tractor or by wetting with water or foam prior to a burn. +
Control tide water penetration and saltwater intrusion with tide gates where feasible. +
Where fire cannot be introduced back into the site for smoke management or other reasons, the use of a hydro-ax or other chipping machinery should be considered to control midstory. +
Implement and support use of agriculture and forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) to control stormwater runoff. Structures such as bioretention cells (i.e., rain gardens), cisterns, permeable pavement, runnels, vegetated swales, and filter strips can be used in various ways as stormwater BMPs. +
Support fencing livestock out of streams as a measure to protect riparian vegetation, maintain bank stability, and reduce nutrient inputs to the aquatic system. +
Consider and implement silvicultural management at appropriate locations to enhance understory development, provide regeneration and habitat for disturbance-dependent species or early successional species, such as [[Golden-winged Warbler]], and enhance mature forest conditions in young to middle-aged pure stands. +
Expand management of existing northern hardwood forests and adjacent habitats (particularly spruce–fir forests) to ensure the complete mix of age class, composition, and conditions necessary to sustain populations of a wide range of species that utilize this community. +
Reduce impervious surfaces as one measure to control runoff and erosion. Research has shown that impervious levels of 8%–12% represent a threshold where small changes in urganization can cause major changes in stream condition (Wang et al. 2001). There are also many BMPs that may be alternatives to reduce runoff. Encourage use of pervious paving materials where feasible. +
Create transportation facilities that utilize longer bridges at streams and wetlands to minimize impacts (and thereby reduce mitigation requirements) and provide crossing options for wildlife that often travel these riparian corridors and disperse to upland communities. +
Work with adjacent states on mutual planning and conservation for regional species concerns, especially since some priority species are likely to expand their range due to climate change impacts. +
Control invasive species in the short run, while populations are relatively limited and small, to prevent greater damage by them in the future. +
Use infrequent prescribed fire and canopy gap management to improve forest structural heterogeneity (frequent fire will limit shrub and understory development necessary to breeding bird species). +
Manage and protect mixed hardwoods/pine to promote future large, unfragmented tracts. This is especially important for amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and bats. +
Target invasive and exotic species control at ecologically sensitive areas and at new and potentially manageable outbreaks. +
Initiate a drought management program that modifies discharge permits when base flow conditions decrease and the 7Q10 is lowered. +