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Paunsaugunt Plateau Utah Prairie Dog Management / ESMF
Region: Southern
ID: 6167
Project Status: Completed
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2025
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Final Methods
Powell Ranger district has partnered with USFWS, UDWR, BLM, and Garfield County to conduct Utah Prairie dog conservation activities on the Paunsaugunt portion of the recovery unit. Powell Ranger District has worked to conduct spring counts, continue plague abatement on National Forest system land as well as Garfield county, and BLM lands. These efforts have expanded the recovery program to work in the Panguitch valley and help better distribute UPD (across) the entire recovery unit. We have constructed translocation sites on both county and BLM lands, as well as maintained and monitored these sites. We have then worked to trap and translocate UPD into these locations. In addition we have monitored these sites for predators and have gained valuable knowledge on predations. Badgers are the primary predator.
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Project Narrative
During the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024 we conducted work for spring adult counts, plague abatement including the use of deltamethrin, as well as Fipronil grain. The Fipronil grain has been recently approved by the EPA and we have conducted trial applications for 2 years at the BB ranch site on Garfield county land. Our monitoring indicates that this is working well. UPD are expanding their territories at this location and spring adult counts are up. In addition we have utilized camera traps to monitor predation and poaching activities. The primary predator is badger. We recently worked through Garfield County and our conservation agreement to contract a retired U.S. Animal Damage Control (ADC) trapper to help alleviate predation at several translocation sites. We also received a letter from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources that authorized trapping and lethal take of predators at these conservation/translocation sites.
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Future Management
Forest service will continue to move forward with the program. A third translocation site has been installed in Johns Valley on USFS lands. This site will be ready for 2024. We finalized this install in the spring of 2024. Predation is a problem that will continue and will need consistent management. Consistent lethal predator control at translocation sites for a minimum of 2 years prior to implementation is crucial. USFS will seek addition funding for predator control at translocation sites as well as additional areas with conservation purposes.
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Jake Schoppe
Submitted Time
09/09/2024 17:09:32
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