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Aquatics Monitoring Equipment
Region: Central
ID: 6878
Project Status: Cancelled
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Need for Project
Newly developed technology with electrofishing equipment helps biologist be more efficient and consistent with their sampling protocols. Standardization is becoming desired across the state, and improving the equipment available to biologists allows them to keep better track of sampling locations, gear, and, specifically, consistency between settings used at each site. I am seeking funding to upgrade old equipment that has been used heavily over the last 20+ years.
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) Obtain equipment that assists in standardizing sampling protocols across the region. 2) Improve sampling efficiency on rivers and streams of Blue Ribbon, potential Blue Ribbon, and non-Blue Ribbon waters in the region. 3) Assess population dynamics for sportfish and native species, including but not limited to; Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Brown Trout, Sculpin and various sucker species.
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?)
In the short term, this equipment would be used in the Provo River sampling, expected to occur in FY2025. Over the long term, this equipment will be used on all streams across the Central Region to sample rivers and streams.
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
CRO Sampling Strategic Plan Bonneville Cutthroat Trout Range-Wide Conservation Agreement and Strategy - Objective 1: Manage for the following minimums within each Geographic Management Unit (GMU)
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
Not applicable
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
Not applicable
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
Not applicable - all sampling using this equipment falls under the jurisdiction of the Utah Division of Wildlife
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 Central Region Sportfish Department will purchase electrofishing equipment. The equipment will be used year-round, primarily in the late summer when standard stream surveys occur daily. Additionally, this equipment may be used to sample the sportfish populations in the newly created Provo River Delta while assisting with June Sucker recovery sampling.
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 project's success will be measured indirectly through sampling across multiple years. Given that this is an equipment purchase to improve the available equipment to the biologist, no metric exists to determine if we are directly improving the fishery. However, standardizing sampling across our region will help improve the knowledge of our fisheries over multiple years when we can look into what settings, locations, and techniques are most effective at sampling fish.
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
Not applicable
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
Not applicable
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
Not applicable
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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