OAR 635-500-3420: Habitat

(1) Objectives for habitat management in the Sandy River basin. (2) Promote habitat conditions that contribute to achieving the desired status identified in the Lower Columbia River Conservation and Recovery Plan for Oregon Populations of Salmon and Steelhead (OAR 635-500-6575). This includes, but is not limited to, the following actions: (a) Maintain and improve upstream and downstream passage for fish in the Sandy River basin at dams, water diversions, existing fishways, culverts and, where needed, at in-channel debris jams. (b) Protect, enhance, and restore fish habitat in the Sandy River basin. (c) Inventory stream and watershed conditions using current methods to assess factors limiting fish production in the Sandy River basin. (d) Reduce artificial introductions of sediment into the Sandy River and basin tributaries. (e) Restore natural stream flows where possible, and protect existing stream flows and water quality from degradation associated with operation of dams, water diversions, effluents, mining, timber harvest, recreation, and other instream activities.