CCC Steelhead DPS Sample Clauses

CCC Steelhead DPS. The destruction, modification and curtailment of the CCC steelhead DPS habitat and range are the result of forestry, agriculture, mining and, most importantly, urbanization. Water storage, withdrawal, conveyance, and diversions for agriculture, flood control, and domestic purposes have greatly reduced or eliminated historically accessible habitat. Two major habitat blockages are Coyote and Warm Springs Dams located in the Russian River Basin (NMFS 1996). Many other minor blockages likely exist throughout the range of this DPS. Blockages have been reported in 12 of 46 tributaries within the CCC steelhead DPS (Xxxxx et al. 2002). Modification of natural flow regimes has had significant negative impacts on CCC steelhead directly and indirectly (e.g., mortality of adults/juveniles, alterations of fish communities and impacts to migration, spawning, rearing, and refuge). Land use activities associated with logging, road construction, urban development, mining, agriculture, ranching, and recreation have resulted in the loss, degradation, simplification, and fragmentation of CCC steelhead habitat. In many watersheds such activities have significantly altered streambank and channel morphology, stream temperature, water quality, access, sediment/large wood recruitment and depletion, all of which significantly affect all life stages of CCC steelhead.