OAR 635-430-0030: Wildlife Conservation and Management Practices

Conservation and management practices appropriate to ensure a conservation benefit may include, but are not limited to: (1) Protecting existing native vegetation; (2) Planting native trees, shrubs, grasses and other native vegetation; (3) Removing invasive, non-native vegetation that threatens native plant communities; (4) Controlling and/or removal of native vegetation to restore historic habitat structure; (5) Forest stand improvement, including forest thinning; (6) Control of invasive, non-native fish or wildlife that threaten native wildlife species; (7) Prescribed burning to maintain fire adapted native vegetation and ecological processes; (8) Fencing to protect wildlife habitat or plant communities; (9) Increasing aquatic habitat diversity by practices such as placing downed, woody material, preserving or creating standing dead trees, or other methods approved by the Department; (10) Placing boulders, logs and other appropriate materials in streams to enhance fish habitat; (11) Removing buildings, old fencing, pavements and other man-made features; (12) Grading altered land areas to restore original hydrology and natural topography; (13) Restoring, enhancing or creating wetlands; (14) Establishing vegetative buffers or structural setbacks adjacent to wildlife habitats; (15) Amending or allowing farming, prescribed grazing and forestry management practices that preserve, enhance or improve the structure or function of wildlife habitat; (16) Locating new dwellings or structural improvements to minimize conflict with existing or proposed habitat for native wildlife species; (17) Planting new riparian vegetation or protecting existing riparian vegetation through fencing or other means; (18) Leasing or selling in-stream water rights as an integral part of the wildlife habitat conservation and management practices; or (19) Other efforts that improve water quality, protect and restore native fish and wildlife habitats, recover threatened or endangered species, enhance stream flows or maintain or restore long-term ecological health, diversity, climate resilience, and productivity on a broad geographic scale.