d. Provide for a state water commissioner to monitor 

 and control legal water uses, especially on the 

 upper Clark Fork and on the Bitterroot River. 



5. Survey spawning grounds. 



Conduct a systematic survey of tributary streams to 

 identify important spawning grounds and rearing habitat. 

 The DFWP should protect critically important areas by 

 special regulation, riparian zone management, instream 

 flows, and other management programs as needed. 



6. Regulate reservoir water levels. 



Evaluate the tradeoffs among various user groups under 

 different flow scenarios with an integrated model 

 utilizing data on the water requirements for irrigation, 

 recreation, and fisheries. The model should be used to 

 determine reservoir operations that have the least 

 effect on beneficial uses and the most benefit across 

 the broadest array of uses. 



7. Develop a stream corridor management plan. 



Utilize existing information on channel instability due 

 to natural and man-made events, riparian land uses, 

 riparian vegetation, sediment transport, and hydrologic 

 data to prepare a stream corridor management plan for 

 the Clark Fork Basin. The plan should involve local, 

 state, and federal agencies, other interested parties, 

 and landowners and should provide for long-term 

 management programs to protect agricultural lands, 

 enhance water quality, and protect and enhance fish and 

 wildlife habitat. The plan shouid identify funding 

 requirements and sources, and outline an implementation 

 schedule. 



8. Improve physical habitat for aquatic life. 



a. Commission a bottom-contour map of the Noxon Rapids 

 and Cabinet Gorge reservoirs to aid in fisheries 

 management of the reservoirs. The map should 

 include depth contours at least down to the level 

 of maximum drawdown to assist fisheries and 

 reservoir managers to minimize effects on fisheries 

 and optimize biological production. 



b. The DFWP should work with sportsmen's groups and 

 the Washington Water Power Company to develop and 

 evaluate artificial structures in the reservoir to 

 create fish habitat and substrates for macro- 

 invertebrates . 



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