Conservation and management practices appropriate to ensure a conservation benefit may include, but are not limited to:

1. (1) Protecting existing native vegetation;
2. (2) Planting native trees, shrubs, grasses and other native vegetation;
3. (3) Removing invasive, non-native vegetation that threatens native plant communities;
4. (4) Controlling and/or removal of native vegetation to restore historic habitat structure;
5. (5) Forest stand improvement, including forest thinning;
6. (6) Control of invasive, non-native fish or wildlife that threaten native wildlife species;
7. (7) Prescribed burning to maintain fire adapted native vegetation and ecological processes;
8. (8) Fencing to protect wildlife habitat or plant communities;
9. (9) Increasing aquatic habitat diversity by practices such as placing downed, woody material, preserving or creating standing dead trees, or other methods approved by the Department;
10. (10) Placing boulders, logs and other appropriate materials in streams to enhance fish habitat;
11. (11) Removing buildings, old fencing, pavements and other man-made features;
12. (12) Grading altered land areas to restore original hydrology and natural topography;
13. (13) Restoring, enhancing or creating wetlands;
14. (14) Establishing vegetative buffers or structural setbacks adjacent to wildlife habitats;
15. (15) Amending or allowing farming, prescribed grazing and forestry management practices that preserve, enhance or improve the structure or function of wildlife habitat;
16. (16) Locating new dwellings or structural improvements to minimize conflict with existing or proposed habitat for native wildlife species;
17. (17) Planting new riparian vegetation or protecting existing riparian vegetation through fencing or other means;
18. (18) Leasing or selling in-stream water rights as an integral part of the wildlife habitat conservation and management practices; or
19. (19) Other efforts that improve water quality, protect and restore native fish and wildlife habitats, recover threatened or endangered species, enhance stream flows or maintain or restore long-term ecological health, diversity, climate resilience, and productivity on a broad geographic scale.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 496.012, 496.138, 496.146, 496.162 & 308A.400-308A.430

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 496.012 & 308A.400-308A.430

History

DFW 68-2024, amend filed 08/14/2024, effective 08/14/2024
DFW 115-2004, f. & cert. ef. 11-26-04
DFW 11-1998, f. & cert. ef. 2-5-98
FWC 23-1994, f. & cert. ef. 4-29-94