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
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.
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
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