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Lake Superior Coldwater Coalition Vision Statement

Maintain, protect, and restore healthy cold water ecosystems with relatively stable flows and a diversity of habitat for fish and wildlife to enhance our quality of life.


Lake Superior Coldwater Coalition Participants and Contact Information

Lake Superior Coldwater Coalition Strategies
  • Strategy 1:  Explore ecologically acceptable options to stabilize stream flows (both peak and base flow).

  • Strategy 2: Reduce impacts of both existing and future watershed development.

  • Strategy 3: Maintain and increase riparian public access for future recreational opportunities and stream protection/improvement (AMA’s, conservation easements, etc.).

  • Strategy 4:  Increase the amount of land protected within coldwater watersheds through easements or purchase.

  • Strategy 5:  Restore all fish passage to North Shore streams – both above and below natural geologic barriers.

  • Strategy 6:  Protect riparian areas that are currently intact and rehabilitate those that have been degraded.

  • Strategy 7: Remediate or reestablish wetlands along coldwater streams, especially in headwaters areas.

  • Strategy 8: Work to reduce temperature peaks in North Shore streams.

  • Strategy 9:  Improve in-stream fisheries habitat.

  • Strategy 10:  Promote forestry practices that minimize impacts of timber harvest on watersheds/streams (go beyond state forest guidelines – BMPs).

  • Strategy 11: Reduce sedimentation where human activities have caused problems.

  • Strategy 12:  Work with citizens and landowners to convey both good and bad land use practices in watersheds and the effects they have on streams.

  • Strategy 13: Work with land use officials to implement regulations and practices that protect watersheds from poor land management and enhance the health of streams.

  • Strategy 14: Collect and inventory data on coldwater streams that will direct productive habitat projects and identify areas to protect.

Lake Superior Coldwater Coalition Projects
STRATEGY 1
Project 1-1: Retrofitting Untreated Impervious Surfaces
Project 1-2: Buckingham Creek Channel Restoration
Project 1-3:  Pilot Exploration of Lake-Clay Bluff/Bank Management & Water Storage in the Lower Knife River Valley, Knife River Minnesota

STRATEGY 2
Project 2-1: Identify Effectiveness of Stormwater Treatment

STRATEGY  3
Project 3-1: Lake Superior Tributary Riparian Acquisition and Management Team
Project 3-2: Clearwater Lake Access Improvement


STRATEGY  4  

STRATEGY  5
Project 5-1: Beaver Dam Removal in High Priority Streams
Project 5-2: Fish Passage in LS Tribs
Project 5-3: Headwaters Bridge to Restore Fish Passage on French River
Project 5-4: Kingsbury Creek Channel Restoration
Project 5-5: Restoring Connectivity in Skunk Creek Watershed

STRATEGY  6
Project 6-1:  Ash Replacement in the Knife Watershed Riparian Corridor
Project  6-2: GIS Inventory of Streams Sensitive to Ash Loss
Project 6-3: Knife River Riparian Restoration
Project 6-4:  Us-Kab-Wan-Ka Riparian Tree Planting
Project 6-5: French River Headwaters Riparian Tree Planting
Project 6-6: Merritt Creek Riparian Cleanup and Restoration

STRATEGY  7  

STRATEGY  8
Project 8-1:  Chester Creek Stream Channel Restoration
Project 8-2: Tischer Creek Stream Channel Restoration
Project 8-3: Lester River Tributary 10 Channel Restoration

STRATEGY  9
Project 9-1:  French River Pool Habitat Restoration
Project 9-2:  Bathymetry Restoration in Upper Twin Pond
Project 9-3: Restore Channelized Stream Reaches on Miller Creek

Project 9-4: Keene Creek Channel Restoration

STRATEGY  10

STRATEGY  11
Project 11-1: Knowlton Creek Watershed Restoration
Project 11-2:  Caribou River Bank Stabilization


STRATEGY  12
Project 12-1: Aquatic Stewardship Plans for Private Landowners


STRATEGY  13  

STRATEGY  14
Project 14-1: Stream Geomorphic Connectivity and Ecological Assessment and Restoration Design Team
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