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Central Region Riparian Restoration FY24
Region: Central
ID: 6557
Project Status: Completed
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2024
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Final Methods
We constructed a beaver deceiver device at Swaner Nature Preserve in Park City to prevent flooding at the visitor center and nearby businesses. The device made it possible for us to let the beavers stay and not have to remove them. This was built on October 23, 2023. In July 2023, we released 5 beavers on the Manti Forest in some old beaver ponds near Skyline Drive to restore brook trout. We also released 2 beavers at Willow Heights in Big Cottonwood Canyon. We released 10 beavers on the Dairy Fork WMA to aid in stream restoration efforts after the 2018 Cole Hollow fire.
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Project Narrative
Beavers play an important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. They reduce erosion and channelization of streams. The ponds that they create also encourage healthier vegetation that provides additional food for species like mule deer and other big game. The pools and riffles that are created by their dams also provide a diversity of habitats that fish and amphibian species need for survival.
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Future Management
This will be a multi-phased project for at least 10 years. The beauty of this project is that for the benefits gained to the watershed, the costs are extremely minor. To get the same benefits by using machinery and man hours that this project will produce would be dramatically higher. Depending on what information we gain from our monitoring RSRA data that we are collecting and monitoring of beaver activity, we will make adjustments. If needed, we will continue to augment beaver populations with beavers over several years until we get a self-sustainable population. If there is any unwanted damage or human conflict we will address these issues as they arise. Through the partnerships we have developed we hope to cultivate a new culture as outlined in the beaver management plan that increases human tolerance and the ability of agencies and landowners to live with beavers.
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Josee Seamons
Submitted Time
09/11/2024 14:36:46
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