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major drainage basins. These studies should be conducted with the 

 cooperation of the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service, state wildlife and fish agencies, and university expertise. 

 Based on these studies, long-range land management plans should be 

 developed for each major river basin, containing provisions to ensure that 

 all remaining natural populations of fish and other sensitive species are 

 maintained and, where appropriate, recovered. 



3) improved standards for management of all federal lands, including 

 wide, no-logging buffer zones along all streams; provisions for complete 

 identification, mapping, and withdrawal from the timber base of all lands 

 where logging and road construction are likely to lead to landslides, 

 erosion, and damage to adjacent and downstream aquatic habitats; and 

 limitations on road construction and re-construction. 



4) Re-allocation of funds within fish habitat improvement, fish 

 restoration, and similar programs, away from projects focused on 

 installation of artificial structures and fish culture technology, toward 

 projects and research focused on restoration of natural processes and 

 ecosystem components. Such projects should promote self-restorative 

 processes of aquatic habitat, riparian forests, and watershed and 

 floodplain functions. Funds in road programs should be reallocated from 

 construction and reconstruction to road obliteration and watershed 

 restoration. 



5) Improved comunication and between research and management 

 branches of federal land management agencies. 



