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NRO WMA Maintenance budget FY23
Region: Northern
ID: 6019
Project Status: Completed
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Need for Project
The northern region habitat team is in charged with maintaining and improving the WMA's to the best management for wildlife. These lands continue to receive more use as public lands dwindle. Each WMA has specific needs but generally all need fence repair and construction, signage at entrances and boundaries, repair to access locations, weed control, seeding weed control areas to prevent weeds from returning, trash removal, erosion control, seeding of disturbed areas such as roads, trails and parking areas. Maintenance of outbuildings and maintaining and developing water sources along with other needs. We are also adding two new WMA's to our workload. The round valley access and cinnamon creek WMA. These WMA will need a lot of work to improve and maintain them.
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
Maintain and improve WMAs and their associated infrastructure in the Northern Region.
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?)
There are several risks of the project not being funding. One of the primary concerns is the invasive weeds. Much progress has been made in removing and controlling them but failing to treat them would result in larger then ever areas of lost habitat. The other issues of fencing, maintaining boundaries and access points are also import to public safety and our neighbors to prevent trespass issues. Another issue is approaching the loss of control on some WMAs.
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
"Maintaining and improving the WMA's helps to achieve the Division's Strategic Plan Goals to: Conserve, protect, enhance and manage Utah's wildlife. Conserve, protect, enhance and manage Utah's ecosystems. Enhance wildlife recreational experiences consistent with other DWR goals. This budget is implemented in the individual management plans for each WMA as well. Also pertains to statewide Mule Deer, Elk and Moose management plans in addition to the unit specific Mule Deer management plans."
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
Reducing annual grasses on the WMA's will reduce fire risk. Maintain a close working relationship with FFSL and USFS fire management teams to maintain fire breaks and access for suppression equipment.
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
Water features (guzzlers, troughs, water lines , springs) on WMA's will be maintained and or improved
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
Archaeology, Done on an as needed basis, NEPA, Done on an on needed basis
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
The person responsible for the WMA in the Region will address tasks identified in the Problem/Need section. The work will be completed as needed by the assigned individual, the Habitat Section staff, other DWR staff, or volunteers etc. Where appropriate, special project will be identified and submitted as needed in to the project database.
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
WMAs are assigned to a field biologist or Officer that monitors them throughout the year. If any additional needs are detected the responsible party will notify the habitat maintenance specialist of the problem. The WMA's are also monitored by any of the maintenance staff as they visit each WMA for the maintenance activities such as weed spraying, fence monitoring and repairs etc. Conservation Officers also inform the habitat staff if there are things that need to be addressed. Calls from the public are also routinely received and addressed as they occur.
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
USFS, BLM, FFSL, UDPR. Partners generally are 'notification only' - they only inform UDWR of issues.
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
Grazing will be administered through the habitat section on all WMA's that do not have their own manager i.e. waterfowl areas and hardware ranch. If grazing is determined to be beneficial to the management of the WMA it will be implemented to the best benefit of the division and Utah's wildlife.
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
Livestock are grazed on WMA's when and where it is determined to be beneficial to the UDWR's goals and objectives. Fuel conditions are constantly monitored and suppression activity is always allowed. Unauthorized uses are addressed as they occur.
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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