Aquatic

Aquatic communities include rivers, streams and wetlands. A critical part of the forest ecosystem, they provide essential habitat for fish and amphibians, and are important to a wide variety of birds and mammals that utilize these sites for foraging, nesting, and for traveling between areas of suitable habitat.

To maintain the integrity of these important habitats for fish and wildlife, we survey and map their locations and leave streamside buffers of trees and vegetation to keep the water cool and clear.

In addition, to prevent sediment from washing into our streams, we carefully construct and maintain our logging roads to minimize runoff, we ban traffic on certain roads during wet weather, and we retire unused or unsuitable roads by restoring them to the original landscape.

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