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<br />description of the range of conditions in a particular watershed, establish a set of habitat and <br />population objectives, and provide recommendations on watershed and habitat improvement <br />and restoration. A genetics management plan, with appropriate consideration for DPS, will <br />also be included. These plans will follow an environmental assessment procedure to ensure <br />that other land use activities in the watershed are compatible with CRCT preservation and <br />restoration. The plans will be flexible and will be updated as information and situations <br />change. <br /> <br />A spatial decision support tool has been developed as a "coarse filter" to evaluate and <br />integrate terrestrial and aquatic spatial features as part of this planning effort (N. Schmal, <br />pers. commun.) Data on CRCT distribution and conservation status in all three states, <br />compiled by Young et aI. (1996) were imported into a relational database of ARC/INFO and <br />linked to a hierarchical layer of surficial hydrography at the 1:100,000 scale. The database <br />includes locations of barriers and information on purity, stocking history and other species <br />present within identified CRCT populations 'along with several other layers of geographic <br />layers including land cover, ownership, threatened and endangered species distributions, and <br />vertebrate species richness. <br /> <br />Strategy 23: Prepare new inter-agency Conservation Strategies, <br /> <br />New inter-agency Conservation Strategies will be prepared by appropriate organizational <br />units within each of the coopeni.ting wildlife agencies. These strategies will include the <br />watershed plans outlined in Strategy 22, along with commitments from the responsible land <br />management agencies for watershed management improvements such as those outlined in <br />Strategy 10. <br /> <br />Strategy 24: Evaluate and monitor land management decisions. <br /> <br />All land management decisions which could impact CRCT populations will include both <br />pre- and post-project evaluation and monitoring to ensure that the habitat elements for CRCT <br />. are protected. Timber management, road construction, mineral development, and their <br />associated impacts should be analyzed and mitigated prior to implementation. In addition, <br />impacts to CRCT populations should be evaluated in livestock grazing management <br />planning, with a specific focus on riparian areas. Water diversions should also be closely <br />evaluated and monitored if adverse impacts to CRCT could occur. <br /> <br />Strategy 25: Reach consensus on needed processes and unresolved issues. <br /> <br />The need for a stability index for describing progress in CRCT conservation should be <br />evaluated. Work may also be needed to evaluate and resolve differences between the <br />cooperators in the approach to genetic purity interpretation. Other processes which might <br />benefit from a consistent approach include but are not limited to: identifying and prioritizing <br />potential restoration sites; standards, guidelines and monitoring procedures for watershed <br />and habitat management and barrier construction and maintenance; monitoring procedures <br /> <br />March 1999 <br /> <br />25 <br />