Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats • Continue to work with partners, such as NC State University and propagation facilities from other states, to facilitate a robust production and augmentation program. • Pursue voluntary approaches or local, regional, and state land-use ordinances to encourage riparian buffers, because not all waters of the state have buffer rules. Riparian buffers are recognized as important in maintaining suitable in-stream physical and chemical habitat quality. • Work with outreach partners to raise awareness of and support for the existence and importance of mussel populations on the landscape and their connections with healthy drinking water and human communities.
• Work with appropriate partners to understand how current management practices for water quality and water quantity affect mussels and their habitats.
• Identify priority locations for installation of new stream flow gauges to improve collection of streamflow data and use the data to identify streams and rivers with stable flow regimes.
• Collaborate with USGS, North Carolina DOT and DWR, and other partners to fund and install, monitor, and maintain new stream flow gauge locations. Streamflow data can inform conservation efforts that are beneficial for all aquatic species and help local governments responsible for communities subject to flooding.
Streams and Rivers
References are located at the end of this document.
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