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Snow Lake Angler Access and Restoration
Region: Southeastern
ID: 5769
Project Status: Completed
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Need for Project
The Purpose for this project is to: -To mitigate current impact to soils, vegetation, and wetlands adjacent to Snow Lake caused by unauthorized disturbance. -Provide adequate access to recreation opportunities at Snow Lake while protecting resources. The Need for this project is guided by requirements for protection of wetlands, and meeting Forest Plan direction with respect to managing 1) recreation use, 2) the Forest's transportation system, 3) water resources, and 4) vegetation. Specifically, there is a need to:-Contain motorized use and provide adequate parking to mitigate impacts and protect natural resources. -Improve watershed health by improving watershed resistance and resilience.
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
1) Provide Sustainable Angler/Recreational Access to Snow Lake 2) Naturalize and seed unauthorized disturbance 3) Define a clear access point and mitigate disturbance from short cuts 4) Bring Snow Lake to a pre-disturbance conditions and give the site a better untrammeled appearance
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?)
The Manti La Sal National Forest allows forest visitors 150' buffer to park and access recreational opportunities like Snow Lake. At this point there is no authorized routes to Snow Lake and visitors are expected to park within this buffer to access the lake. Untermann's daisy can be present roadside along Skyline Drive around Snow Lake. This project will help avoid impacts to this sensitive plant species by having a clear and defined route to access and to park at Snow Lake. This will discourage forest visitors from driving or parking in locations where this species can be present.
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 following goals, desired conditions, and management direction (among others) apply to this proposed action (Manti-La Sal National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan [1986 as amended]): -Develop appropriate facilities where the present facilities are not meeting the demand and where it meets the highest net public benefit. -Design facilities and access to provide site protection, efficient maintenance, and user convenience. -Design and develop sites to ensure that developed capacity meets the anticipated demand
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
Pocking, Naturalization and Seeding of disturbed areas will regenerate native vegetation and will reduce erosion into the lake.
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
NEPA - In process, estimated to be signed in spring 2021. Expected to be implemented late summer/early fall of 2021
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
-Build Parking Barriers(Log and Block 280ft of barriers) -Establish access road (0.25 miles access $12,750 purchase and haul 420 ton of gravel) -Construct Parking Area(100x150 parking - $10,500 purchase and haul 350 ton of gravel) -Pock, Seed, and Naturalized disturbed areas
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
Forest staff will monitor the areas to ensure compliance and effectiveness of remediation efforts to disturbed areas.
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
Utah DWR - Snow lake is a stocked lake
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
Given the size of the lake, parking for the site should be sufficient for the carrying capacity of the site. Future management will involve monitoring, evaluating, and ensuring the site revegetates properly.
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
N/A
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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