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Community Fishery Shoreline Maintenance, Habitat Improvements and Site Enhancements
Region: Northern
ID: 4991
Project Status: Completed
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Need for Project
Community fisheries require frequent maintenance, enhancements, and site upgrades to continue to provide an enjoyable urban fishery experience. Each community fishery requires site-specific measures to improve accessibility, remove or treat overgrown vegetation, provide cover habitat for various fishes, and provide breeding habitat for select warm water species. As more Community Fisheries are added each year, the ability of the Division of Wildlife Resources to stock each pond with large numbers of fish is being stretched thin. In order to continue to meet the needs of each Community Fishery, fishery managers are working to enhance habitat for naturally reproducing warm water fish, which will allow them to propagate on the their own and maintain their numbers with reduced stocking. The cities of Clinton, Ogden and Clearfield have a vested interest in these projects and all have provided in-kind contributions to maintain these urban community fisheries.
Provide evidence about the nature of the problem and the need to address it. Identify the significance of the problem using a variety of data sources. For example, if a habitat restoration project is being proposed to benefit greater sage-grouse, describe the existing plant community characteristics that limit habitat value for greater sage-grouse and identify the changes needed for habitat improvement.
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Objectives
-Provide additional access points to for underserved user groups and improve experiences for consumptive/non-consumptive users. -Provide additional nursery habitat and cover for both stocked and naturally reproducing fish to with the intent of enhancing reproduction and survival. -Encourage natural reproduction of warm-water species as a way of complimenting stocking practices. -Improve shoreline angler experience.
Provide an overall goal for the project and then provide clear, specific and measurable objectives (outcomes) to be accomplished by the proposed actions. If possible, tie to one or more of the public benefits UWRI is providing.
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Project Location/Timing Justification (Why Here? Why Now?)
Urban fisheries require constant maintenance to provide a positive recreational experience. Each fishery requires partnerships and contributions from all partners to be successful. City leaders and Fisheries biologists have a vested interest to maintain urban fisheries. The loss of access to an urban fishery due to safety or impairment reduces the recreational opportunities available to communities.
LOCATION: Justify the proposed location of this project over other areas, include publicly scrutinized planning/recovery documents that list this area as a priority, remote sensing modeling that show this area is a good candidate for restoration, wildlife migration information and other data that help justify this project's location.
TIMING: Justify why this project should be implemented at this time. For example, Is the project area at risk of crossing an ecological or other threshold wherein future restoration would become more difficult, cost prohibitive, or even impossible.
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Relation to Management Plans
The proposed improvements of adding docks to two community fisheries, removing excess submerged vegetation, and improving fish hiding/reproduction structures will achieve the following three objectives: Objective C-1 increasing user recreation satisfaction; Goal C enhance wildlife recreational experiences and Objective E-1 increasing support for DWR programs by a government entity (Ogden City, Clinton City, Clearfield City, Farr West City, Syracuse City) and Goal E ensure broad-based public involvement in the management of ecosystems (Clinton City, Clearfield City).
List management plans where this project will address an objective or strategy in the plan. Describe how the project area overlaps the objective or strategy in the plan and the relevance of the project to the successful implementation of those plans. It is best to provide this information in a list format with the description immediately following the plan objective or strategy.
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Fire/Fuels
N/A
If applicable, detail how the proposed project will significantly reduce the risk of fuel loading and/or continuity of hazardous fuels including the use of fire-wise species in re-seeding operations. Describe the value of any features being protected by reducing the risk of fire. Values may include; communities at risk, permanent infrastructure, municipal watersheds, campgrounds, critical wildlife habitat, etc. Include the size of the area where fuels are being reduced and the distance from the feature(s) at risk.
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Water Quality/Quantity
The aeration installation project at Steed's Pond is expected to improve water quality and quantity available to fish. An aeration system will make more areas of the pond available to fish year-round and reduce the likelihood of a fish kill. Treating nuisance aquatic vegetation in Glassman Pond will increase area available for anglers to fish and improve available fish habitat. Many urban fisheries at the bottom of drainages and represent critical urban wildlife habitat. The proposed actions will help maintain clean, healthy ecosystems for fishes but also improve stopover habitat for migrating wildlife, bat species etc.
Describe how the project has the potential to improve water quality and/or increase water quantity, both over the short and long term. Address run-off, erosion, soil infiltration, and flooding, if applicable.
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Compliance
No archeological aurveys are required for the previously disturbed ground in these urban fisheries. NEPA is not applicable.
Description of efforts, both completed and planned, to bring the proposed action into compliance with any and all cultural resource, NEPA, ESA, etc. requirements. If compliance is not required enter "not applicable" and explain why not it is not required.
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Methods
Install dock/pier structures at Clinton Park Pond(x 2) and Steed's Pond(x 1). Remove overgrown Submerged Aquatic Vegetation at Glassman Pond Construct and deploy fish hiding structure at community waters. Construct and deploy catfish breeding boxes on south-facing shorelines of community fisheries. Assist Clearfield City with installation of an aeration system at Steed's Pond.
Describe the actions, activities, tasks to be implemented as part of the proposed project; how these activities will be carried out, equipment to be used, when, and by whom.
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Monitoring
The maintenance of dock structures will be performed by each respective city ( Clearfield, Clinton). A grant agreement will be written between for each city to perform semi-annual inspections of dock structures and aeration systems (Clearfield) and to notify DWR when larger repairs or safety issues arise.
Describe plans to monitor for project success and achievement of stated objectives. Include details on type of monitoring (vegetation, wildlife, etc.), schedule, assignments and how the results of these monitoring efforts will be reported and/or uploaded to this project page. If needed, upload detailed plans in the "attachments" section.
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Partners
Clinton City Corporation Clearfield City Corporation Ogden City Corporation Farr West City Roy City Brigham City Wellsville City Syracuse City
List any and all partners (agencies, organizations, NGO's, private landowners) that support the proposal and/or have been contacted and included in the planning and design of the proposed project. Describe efforts to gather input and include these agencies, landowners, permitees, sportsman groups, researchers, etc. that may be interested/affected by the proposed project. Partners do not have to provide funding or in-kind services to a project to be listed.
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Future Management
The proposed project is part of a larger strategy to more efficiently manage community fisheries while maintaining a quality user experience into the future.
Detail future methods or techniques (including administrative actions) that will be implemented to help in accomplishing the stated objectives and to insure the long term success/stability of the proposed project. This may include: post-treatment grazing rest and/or management plans/changes, wildlife herd/species management plan changes, ranch plans, conservation easements or other permanent protection plans, resource management plans, forest plans, etc.
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Sustainable Uses of Natural Resources
The proposed improvements enhance our ability to sustainably manage these fisheries. Enhancements to fish habitat will increase the ability of these fisheries to sustain themselves under increasing angler pressure and reduce the amount of fish we are required to stock. In addition, accessibility improvements like the fishing piers will allow us to grow riparian vegetation along the pond shoreline while still allowing anglers to good fishing access to open water.
Potential for the proposed action to improve quality or quantity of sustainable uses such as grazing, timber harvest, biomass utilization, recreation, etc. Grazing improvements may include actions to improve forage availability and/or distribution of livestock.
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