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 efforts, there is 'very little, if any, effort to integrate 

 management strategies with other agencies in the watershed. 



We recommend that federal land managers take the lead to 

 develop standardized criteria to ensure coordination of fisheries 

 management on federal, state and Tribal lands. In addition, 

 management areas need to be established using ecological 

 boundaries rather than the zoning map type boundaries that now 

 predominate planning. For example, riparian management areas 

 need to be ecologically based rather than merely represent an 

 arbitrary line on a map. The typical 100 foot wide riparian 

 management area is arbitrary and scientifically indefensible. 



Fifth, and the importance of this cannot be understated, 

 both the Forest Service and BLM must increase the accountability 

 of their fisheries programs to the public. Monitoring of plan 

 implementation must become an internally enforceable limitation 

 upon management activities. Federal land managers must be as 

 accountable for their actions to preserve and restore aquatic 

 resources as they are in meeting timber targets. 



In conclusion, the Forest Service and BLM must develop 

 watershed based planning that fully protects salmon and other 

 aquatic resources. Agencies need to shift from stream 

 restoration strategies designed to mitigate poor management 

 practices to programs of watershed restoration. In recent years. 



