Davis County Priorities
For data gathering purposes the County identified these priorities:
- Water Quality and Hydrology
- Land Use
- Fire Management
- Recreation and Tourism
- Land Access
WFRC Plan Review Matrix – Related to Davis County
Goals, policies, and guidelines from plans and studies that pertain to the county and are related to the resources required for County Resource Management Plans are shown below. Visit the WFRC page for similar information for the entire region.
| Resource Category | Subcategory | Goals and Policies | Plan | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Improve public access on the Island. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Clearly define general access in terms of hours of (park) operation. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Minimize potential development actions to preserve the island?s solitude, openness and ruggedness. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Boost visitation and revenue. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Economic Considerations | Provide Adequate Staffing and Funding | Antelope Island RMP | 37 | |
| Energy Resources | Antelope Island | Investigate opportunities for renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, ground source heat pumps and partnering with university research groups. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Continue to implement the 2004 Access Management Plan, concentrating on minimizing wildlife/visitor conflicts through trail and facility design, and visitor education. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Study the possible impacts on wildlife before opening the southern tip access road to hiking, biking and horseback riding as recommended in the 2004 Access Management Plan. Park biologists have suggested that these activities may cause wildlife, especially mule deer, to walk off the island (particularly at lower lake levels). | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | The use of off-highway vehicles will be limited to park staff, cooperating researchers and others engaged in search and rescue actions, maintenance of trails and other facilities, wildlife and range management, public safety, natural and cultural resource research, and other park management related activities. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Develop and implement a plan that identifies appropriate areas and methods for reestablishing native tree and shrub communities to the island. | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | To promote continuity in resource and visitor management on the island, the Division should continue to pursue obtaining ownership of the BLM inholdings. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Identify levels of acceptable change or measures to determine when park management must act to reduce impacts to resources or visitor experiences, or to solve public safety or other problems. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Enforce the Board of the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation?s restriction on placing new communication towers, antennas or other structures on the island. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Explore means of controlling civilian aircraft (including ultra lights, paragliders, and helicopters) use of airspace over the island when it presents hazards to visitors or harassment of wildlife. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Preserve the visual and aesthetic values of the park such as the concepts of solitude, openness and ruggedness. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Law Enforcement | Continue to support the trail patrol and their efforts to protect park resources and experiences. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 | |
| Mineral Resources | Antelope Island | The Division is opposed to exploration and development for mineral extraction within the park. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Noxious Weeds | Eradicate noxious and invasive species. | Antelope Island RMP | 32 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Promote better relations with the local community. | Antelope Island RMP | 21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Continue to develop relationships with businesses and community groups to support activities at the park. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Continue the strong marketing partnership with Davis Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Increase numbers of visitors in the shoulder seasons and winter by marketing the opportunities available (particularly wildlife viewing) during those times of year. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Complete a business plan that includes a marketing plan as a component. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | The Antelope Island Comprehensive Interpretive Plan and the Fielding Garr Ranch Interpretive and Site Plan should continue to be used to guide the staff toward reaching the park?s interpretive and educational goals and objectives. | Antelope Island RMP | 37 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Develop marketing campaigns and materials to attract people to the park from the Wasatch Front, as well as from outside the area, including international visitors. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Investigate controlling populations of no-see-ums (biting midges), and the effect of potential control efforts on other wildlife populations (involve the Great Salt Lake Project and the Division of Wildlife Resources in considering insect control methods and implications). | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Use treatments such as occasional mowing, planting of desirable forage, and developing water sources to improve habitat and draw wildlife to locations easily viewed by visitors. | Antelope Island RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Develop ponds east of the ranch road for use by wildlife, and to offer visitors a short trail with interpretive opportunities (consider a boardwalk trail with interpretive signing). | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Ensure adequate water supply for current and future needs | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Develop ponds east of the ranch road for use by wildlife, and to offer visitors a short trail with interpretive opportunities (consider a boardwalk trail with interpretive signing). | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Determine population management targets for mule deer. | Antelope Island RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Limited hunting may be allowed as a management tool for the health of wildlife populations and their habitats when other management control options have not been effective. | Antelope Island RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Sustain Antelope Island wildlife and habitats and to make contributions to wildlife science. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Help meet the needs of Utah?s consumptive users by exploring development of nursery programs to enhance big/upland game populations in other areas of the state. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Identify and implement policies to attain healthy, sustainable populations of diverse, native plant and animal communities for the non-consumptive beneficial use of the public. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Emphasize enhancement of watchable wildlife opportunities through the designation of appropriate areas and programs. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Increase the active use of fire to return fire dependent ecosystems to proper functioning and to reduce hazardous fuels. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Incorporate the river's natural and cultural history into designs for riverfront features, public art, education, and signage | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Establish buffers between the river and the built environment | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Preserve and rehabilitate natural river features and functions | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Apply design standards for complementary development and redevelopment in the corridor to support increased visibility and recreational use of the river | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage regional transportation planning to connect communities to the (Jordan) river corridor, emphasizing non-automobile travel | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Riparian Areas | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Balance needs for development, recreation, and public access with river protection | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Replace structural water conveyance devices with alternatives that allow for flood management plus improvements for water quality, recreation, and habitat | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Manage stormwater on site | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Reduce the use of hardscapes and impermeable surfaces in and near the (Jordan River) corridor | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Reduce hazardous fuels (prescribed fire, silvicultural and mechanical treatments) with emphasis on interface communities (wildland/urban) and increase proactive participation of communities at risk. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Restore or maintain fire-adapted ecosystems (consistent with land uses, historic fire regimes, and other Forest Plan direction) through wildland fire use, prescribed fire, timber harvest or mechanical treatments. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Take timely actions to restore proper functioning of ecosystems after wildfire. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Fire is returned to habitats from which it had been unnaturally excluded, the ?re regime (frequency and intensity) in these habitats generally approximates a natural, pre-settlement regime. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 190 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Inappropriate Fire Frequency and Intensity - Fire is excluded from habitats in which potential burns now would be frequent, large, and destructive to soils and native vegetation to the habitats are being actively managed (treated) to reduce components or factors that promote risk of catastrophic ?re, such as cheatgrass, excessive conifer encroachment, or unnaturally large stands of mature Gambel oak | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 188 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent isolated pockets of development | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent/limit damage in foothill areas | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect viewsheds | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Mining | Discourage new gravel pits, mitigate effects of existing gravel pits | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Preserve existing parks | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Improve recognition of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Increase trailheads and public access points | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Reasonably accommodate OHV users | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protect watershed areas | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Access | Maintain right-of-way access, irrigation access | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Minimum acreage for agricultural viability | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Require developers to provide fence between agricultural areas and development (encourage municipalities to adopt such ordinances) | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Limit development to municipalities/incorporated areas | Davis County General Plan | 3 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent/limit additional development of foothill areas | Davis County General Plan | 3 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Encourage municipalities to adopt ordinances preventing stormwater runoff from flowing into irrigation ditches | Davis County General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Encourage municipalities to participate with Davis County in a storm water drainage system and management program. | Davis County General Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Land use | The preservation of agricultural lands and agricultural sustainability go hand-in-hand. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Sustainable agriculture has numerous elements, but the ultimate goal is to keep land in production now and into the future. Steps to bring in-creased profits and provide sound stewardship of the air, water, and soil, as well as improved quality of life for farming communities, are needed. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Ditches and Canals | Funding sources for water delivery systems to make post break repairs, perform maintenance, or make capital upgrades are too few and inadequate to address the need. Irrigation and ditch companies also carry expensive insurance that does not always come through in times of need. These costs are often unavoidable and are ultimately paid for by the end users. It would be extremely beneficial for both agricultural and M&I users if funding mechanisms were in place that could be easily applied for and implemented. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 6 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Canals are often used for unauthorized recreation. This is both a safety and a liability issue. Canals are not meant for recreation, but it inevitably happens. The canal companies are forced to implement security measures and carry insurance coverage, further adding to the high price of water. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Agricultural users are often negatively impacted during peak residential irrigation hours as the water level in the system drops. When this occurs, farmers, especially those at the end of the ditch, miss water turns on their crops. When farmers miss their water turns, the local food supply can be significantly stressed and damaged; therefore, a balance needs to be established. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Not all secondary systems are metered, and those that are do not always receive accurate metering. Dependable metering could reduce residential overwatering and improve the dependability of the agricultural supply. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to keep potential [invasive and noxious weeds] out of the county. Once a noxious or invasive weed is established, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Land managers should strive to keep potential invaders out and ensure that newly detected weeds be treated before they become prolific. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Small, contained populations of noxious and invasive weeds that are detected early have a high probability of being effectively managed. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Eliminating weeds before they cause damage to the landscape will save the county from losing biological resources and lessen the financial burden it takes to maintain these weeds once they have spread out of control. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Urban encroachment | When land is developed, it is important to ensure that water continues to be delivered to the agricultural users. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Storm water, tail water, and effluent water must be properly managed and comply with Utah State Water Law under Utah Code, Title 73. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Urban development can introduce storm water and pollution into irrigation infra-structure. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Agricultural water users need to maximize their irrigation efficiency by implementing the most water efficient irrigation technology. These projects are costly and often require grants and loans to implement. Likewise, M&I users need to implement both indoor and outdoor water conservation measures to ensure that all the water in the county is being put to the best use. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | It is important that conservation measures in the county be maximized in order to stretch the limited water supply and to avoid, if possible, costly water projects. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 1: No development is desired west of the Legacy Parkway Corridor, except for a small portion of land on the Woods Cross 5th South interchange. This land does not appear to have any development limitation. It is recommended that some of the lands to the south of the interchange on the west side of The Legacy Parkway be used in some form of recreational use. The lands north of the interchange along the west side frontage road are generally unsuitable for development. The road is the only access for trucks traveling to the landfill. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 16 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 2A: No development is desired west of the Legacy Parkway south of Centerville. In Centerville, from approximately Parrish Lane north to Glovers Lane in Farmington, the D&RG Rail Corridor becomes the western edge of development. Northward from Glovers Lane, the FEMA Flood Line becomes the western edge of development. Existing farmland that is located west of the no build line is an appropriate use for the area. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 17 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 2B: There should be no development west of the FEMA Flood Line within the study area. Much of the land west of the proposed Legacy Highway in the most northern parts of this map is already preserved as open space as part of The Nature Conservancy?s Management Area. Pockets of land west of the highway corridor are proposed as possible sites for mitigating future phases of the Legacy Highway in the area. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood line and housing development. Higher density housing and commercial uses should only be allowed east of rural cluster housing. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 3A: No development is allowed west of The FEMA Flood Line throughout this area. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood Line and housing. Much of the land surrounding the North Davis sewer treatment plant is already preserved as agricultural land by the sewer district. Only rural cluster housing should be planned to occur next to agricultural lands. Higher density housing and commercial zones should only be allowed east of this land use. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 19 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 3B: No development is desired west of the FEMA Flood Line. Current farming practices are an appropriate use for these lands. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood line and housing developments. Only conservation development housing should be allowed adjacent to the agricultural buffer. Higher density housing and commercial development should only be allowed east of conservation development housing. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 20 |
| Land Access | Planning | Access to open spaces, wildlife habitats, and natural areas will be preserved | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide a system of interconnecting and looping trails | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Trails to provide alternate transportation routes including bicycle commuters | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Trails will have different levels of development and accessibility for users of all abilities. | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Air Quality | Great Salt Lake | Reduce fugitive dust emissions from exposed lake beds. 1) Coordinate with DSPR and DWR to manage illegal motor vehicle traffic on dirt roads around the lake and on the exposed lake beds. | GSL CMP | 3-9 |
| Air Quality | Great Salt Lake | Promote compliance with emissions standards for industries that use GSL resources. 1) Coordinate with DAQ to evaluate emissions of all criteria pollutants associate with proposed projects and work with DAQ to identify appropriate mitigation strategies to offset major emissions. 2) Coordinate with DAQ to evaluate whether industries with FFSL leases meet DAQ emission standards. | GSL CMP | 3-9 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Minimize impacts to the scenic values of GSL. 1) Consider visual impacts of a proposed project on the visual character of GSL when considering new actions. 2) Consider how additional lighting from a proposed project would impact GSL resources and visitor experience. 3) When considering a proposed project, identify strategies to mitigate impacts from surface-disturbing activities as appropriate. 4)Coordinate with local cities, counties, and other landowners to minimize impacts to visual resources outside of the meander line, but within the GSL viewshed. | GSL CMP | 3-21 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance of cultural resource protection on sovereign lands. 1) Support SHPO on the management of known cultural resource sites on sovereign lands. 2) Consider how future projects using state funds would affect historic properties, according to UTAH CODE ? 8-8-404. 3) Adhere to UTAH CODE ? 9-9-402 and UTAH ADMIN. CODE R230-1 regarding the discovery of human remains on sovereign lands. 4) Consult with SHPO regarding how future proposed uses may impact cultural resource sites, as needed.ize the importance of cultural resource protection on sovereign lands. | GSL CMP | 3-25 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance of paleontological resource protection on sovereign lands. 1) Support UGS on the management of known fossil locations on sovereign lands. 2) Consider how future projects using state funds would affect paleontological resources, according to UTAH CODE ? 79-3-508. 3) Consult with UGS regarding how future proposed uses may impact paleontological resources, as needed. | GSL CMP | 3-25 |
| Economic Considerations | Allow for commercial and industrial uses while protecting and sustaining long-term health of GSL resources. 1) Authorize mineral extraction and oil, gas, and hydrocarbon development, brine shrimp harvesting, and aquaculture under multiple-use, sustained yield principles under UTAH CODE ? 65A-2-1. 2) Coordinate with USACE, DAQ, DWQ, DWRi, and DOGM to evaluate resource impacts of a proposed use and identify necessary permits. 3) Consult with DWRe, DWR, local cities, and counties to minimize resource impacts associated with permit authorization. 4) Coordinate with resource extraction industries on potential mitigation strategies as new information becomes available regarding the industry?s impacts to other GSL resources. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-26 | |
| Economic Considerations | Promote the development of quantitative metrics to determine the values of GSL noncommodity resources. 1) Recognize the importance of determining accurate valuation of GSL?s resources in coordination with UGS, DSPR, Utah Office of Tourism, DOGM, DWQ, DWR, and cities and counties. Specifically, resource valuations could include recreation (e.g., bird watching, waterfowl hunting, and boating), mineral extraction, and oil, gas, and hydrocarbon production. | GSL CMP | 3-26 | |
| Energy Resources | Great Salt Lake | Allow for new oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leasing activities that are consistent with the long-term sustainability of GSL, according to UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8. 1) Consider new leases according to oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leasing categories and leasing processes outlined in the MLP. 2) Consider how proposed oil, gas, and hydrocarbon projects would impact GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to incorporate best management practices in new leases. 4) Coordinate with permitting and management agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider future oil, gas, and hydrocarbon projects. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-18 |
| Fisheries | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support a range of salinity levels that support the brine shrimp population, the associated food web, and the brine shrimp harvesting industry. 1) Coordinate with DWRi and UGS to evaluate how authorization of water rights applications would affect salinity of GSL at a range of lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate impacts to brine shrimp populations at a range of lake levels when reviewing new permits/leases and permit/lease renewals. 3) Identify research opportunities with DWQ, DWR, and UGS for studying the effects of lake salinity levels and water quality on brine shrimp. 4) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 5) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine shrimp and the water column. 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 7) Coordinate with the managing, permitting, and intersecting entities to maintain ideal salinity levels for brine shrimp resources. 8) Continue to partner with UGS to monitor salinity levels and DWR to monitor brine shrimp populations. | GSL CMP | 3-12 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Great Salt Lake | Consider how changes in land use above and below the meander line could have adverse impacts on GSL resources and development. 1) Coordinate with management agencies listed above to understand how proposed changes in land use would impact GSL resources and surrounding communities. 2) Coordinate with local cities, counties, and land managers that have jurisdiction of lands above the meander line to help ensure future development would not have adverse effect on GSL resources or that GSL would have adverse effects on future development. 3) Support FEMA determination* that residential and commercial development should not occur below 4,217 feet; this would be done to minimize impacts to GSL resources and infrastructure during periods of high lake levels. | GSL CMP | 3-19 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Promote the importance of access to GSL marinas from land and open water. 1) Coordinate with and support DSPR to dredge channels, as needed, to provide passages for boats from existing marinas. 2) Coordinate with DSPR to sustain access to marinas from land and open water. 3) Together with DSPR, DWR, and local cities, counties, and marina users, identify marina access issues and concerns at a range of lake levels and support improvements for access. | GSL CMP | 3-23 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Protect GSL resources from adverse impacts resulting from transportation infrastructure. 1) Consider how proposed transportation projects would impact GSL resources through review of agencyled analysis. 2) Coordinate with responsible agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider future transportation projects. 3) Coordinate with DWQ to address potential water quality impacts associated with runoff from transportation projects, which could affect the GSL ecosystem. 4) Coordinate with USACE and Union Pacific regarding a potential increase in boat access to the North Arm with the future modification of the Northern Railroad Causeway. | GSL CMP | 3-28 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Minimize damage to transportation infrastructure from GSL. 1) Coordinate with responsible agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of future transportation projects. 2) Participate in transportation planning efforts with UDOT, Wasatch Front Regional Council, and the Bear River Association of Governments that promote safe and effective transportation routes that minimize impacts to GSL resources. 3) Encourage transportation and residential and commercial-related infrastructure development to occur above 4,217 feet (FEMA 100-year floodplain). | GSL CMP | 3-28 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Consider how changes in land use above and below the meander line could have adverse impacts on GSL resources and development. 1) Coordinate with management agencies listed above to understand how proposed changes in land use would impact GSL resources and surrounding communities. 2) Coordinate with local cities, counties, and land managers that have jurisdiction of lands above the meander line to help ensure future development would not have adverse effect on GSL resources or that GSL would have adverse effects on future development. 3) Support FEMA determination* that residential and commercial development should not occur below 4,217 feet; this would be done to minimize impacts to GSL resources and infrastructure during periods of high lake levels. | GSL CMP | 3-19 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Recognize how human modifications to GSL impact the GSL ecosystem. 1) Together with DWR, Davis County, and Union Pacific, evaluate the use of dikes, berms, and dredging to mitigate impacts of low lake levels on industry and ecosystems. 2) Support continued research by all entities listed above to understand the impacts of human modifications on the GSL ecosystem due to dikes and causeways. 3) Request site-specific analysis assessments from applicants that consider the impacts of a proposed causeway or dike on the GSL ecosystem. 4) Consider how proposed causeway projects and mineral extraction projects would impact GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. 5) Coordinate with responsible agencies and entities to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of causeway construction or modification 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-20 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the potential impacts of geologic navigational hazards to human health and safety. 1) Support and coordinate with UGS on further understanding of potential adverse impacts of shifts in tectonic tilt and how the shifts could impact the current slope of lake bed and floodplain. 2) Support Division of Emergency Management and local city and county efforts to prepare, recover from, respond to, and mitigate geologic hazards in and around GSL. 3) Support and coordinate with DSPR, UGS, and local cities and counties to develop educational material and public notification tools that disclose geologic hazards. 4) Minimize the adverse impacts of windblown ice on lake monitoring structures through support and coordination with USGS, UGS, and DWR. 5)Minimize the adverse impacts of windblown ice on other infrastructure through support and coordination with DSPR and UDOT. | GSL CMP | 3-21 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | FFSL will manage GSL and its resources under multipleuse, sustained yield principles (UTAH CODE ? 65A-2-1) by implementing legislative policies (UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8) and accommodating public and private uses to the extent that those policies and uses do not substantially impair Public Trust resources or the lake?s sustainability. | GSL CMP | 1-1 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | Uses at GSL include preservation of the lake; availability of brines to lake extraction industries; wildlife protection; protection of recreational facilities; safe boating; availability of appropriate areas for extraction of brine, minerals, chemicals, and petrochemicals to aid the state?s economy; maintenance and protection of marshlands, rookeries, and wildlife refuges; and public access to the lake for recreation, hunting, and fishing (UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8). | GSL CMP | 1-1 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | Protect and sustain GSL resources while providing for multiple uses. 1) Request site-specific impact analyses, as deemed appropriate by the FFSL Division Director, for a proposed project. Site-specific analyses required by other permitting agencies may provide FFSL within adequate level of project-specific analysis. 2) Consider the range of ecosystem effects resulting from a proposed project (including cumulative effects) through consultation with all management and intersecting agencies listed above. 3) Consider and evaluate the cumulative impacts of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects on the GSL ecosystem through consultation with all agencies listed above. 4) When appropriate, upon receipt of a proposed project, identify mitigation efforts in cooperation with all management and intersecting agencies listed above to reduce impacts to and/or benefit the GSL ecosystem. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to promote compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-4 |
| Law Enforcement | Protect GSL resources from impacts resulting from OHV trespassing. 1) Together with the BLM, DSPR, and DWR, identify areas where OHV trespassing is a problem and develop methods to prohibit illegal access. 2) Coordinate with industry groups and landowners on the authorized locations of OHV use on private land around GSL. 3) Coordinate with intersecting agencies to develop educational material and enforcement strategies that would discourage OHV users from trespassing. | GSL CMP | 3-23 | |
| Law Enforcement | Protect GSL resources from adverse impacts resulting from OHV trespassing. 1) Identify areas where OHV trespassing is a problem; coordinate and develop methods to prevent illegal access. 2) Coordinate with BLM, DSPR, DWR, HAFB, and adjacent county sheriff departments to develop enforcement strategies that would discourage OHV users from trespassing. | GSL CMP | 3-30 | |
| Law Enforcement | Recognize the importance of search-and-rescue access. 1) Coordinate with DSPR and UGS regarding the identification of bioherms that could cause navigational hazards. 2) Support DSPR and counties? sheriff?s departments (search-and-rescue teams) in facilitating rescues. 3) Coordinate with search-and-rescue entities to identify areas or infrastructure within the lake that have lake level access constraints, including marinas, and identify how to operate safely around constraints. | GSL CMP | 3-30 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Provide grazing opportunities that promote the long-term health of GSL land available for grazing. 1) Coordinate with DWQ, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, and Natural Resources Conservation Service to encourage and support best management practices. 2) Manage grazing opportunities and potential conflicts of grazing with other GSL resources. 3) Allow grazing that helps reduce growth and spread of noxious weeds (e.g., Phragmites sp.). 4) Promote research and methods to yield sustainable foraging habitat. 5) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate the impacts to wildlife, including nesting bird habitat, associated with proposed grazing. | GSL CMP | 3-27 | |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Allow for new mineral leasing activities that are consistent with the long-term sustainability of GSL, according to UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8(b). 1) New leases subject to suspended or modified operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing leases and permits may not be subject to this management strategy. New leases and permits? may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or lower (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]). 2) Follow guidance for mineral leasing process outlined in the MLP. 3) Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. 4) Consider new leasing activities in areas determined to have potential for leasing, as specified by the mineral leasing categories in the MLP. 5) Consider how proposed mineral extraction projects would affect GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. Site-specific analyses required by other permitting agencies may provide FFSL with an adequate level of project-specific analysis. 6) Coordinate with permitting and management agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of future mineral extraction projects. 7) Coordinate with permitting and intersecting agencies to identify effective lease stipulations and/or mitigation strategies. 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317) | GSL CMP | 3-17 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Manage at extremely high and low lake levels to reduce impacts to ecosystems, industry, and infrastructure. 1) Support DWRe pumping activities when the lake reaches 4,208 feet to mitigate impacts to GSL resources. 2) Coordinate with industry to monitor and maintain breach near Strong?s Knob to facilitate pumping. 3) New leases subject to suspended operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing operators may not besubject to this management strategy. 4) New leases and permits may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or less (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]) | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize and better understand the effects of mineral extraction on GSL salt balance. 1) Consider how the salt balance would be impacted at low lake levels when issuing new leases in coordination with DOGM, DWRe, and UGS. 2) Promote research efforts by USGS and UGS to quantify GSL salt inflow and outflow. 3) Encourage research to understand sustainable levels of mineral extraction for GSL. 4) Encourage salt balance modeling analysis for new mineral leasing proposals, as appropriate. | GSL CMP | 3-16 |
| Noxious Weeds | Target and treat invasive weed species (especially Phragmites) and eradicate colonizing invasive species in GSL wetlands. 1) Identify concentrations and dispersal vectors for Phragmites during receding lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR, USFWS, local cities and counties, and other landowners or managers adjacent to GSL on weed control and removal programs. 3) Develop annual weed management objectives and facilitate their implementation. 4) Aggressively eradicate colonizing invasive plant species. Eradication efforts should focus on areas where there are high-quality and/or numerous resource values (e.g., wetlands and recreation opportunities). | GSL CMP | 3-8 | |
| Predator Control | Recognize the need to maintain the isolation of nesting and breeding habitats for bird species of regional/global importance. 1) Coordinate with DWR and USFWS to determine effects of permitting action on rookeries. 2) Coordinate with DWR to implement activities that protect rookery habitat. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 4) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on island rookeries and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to bird habitat. | GSL CMP | 3-16 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Protect recreation users from navigational hazards on GSL. 1) Support and coordinate with DSPR, DWR, UGS, and USGS to develop educational materials and public notification tools that disclose navigational hazards. | GSL CMP | 3-24 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Recognize the importance of bird watching and waterfowl hunting and primary contact (e.g., swimming) and secondary contact (e.g., boating, paddle boarding) recreation as multiple-use components of GSL resources. 1) Support and coordinate with DSPR, DWR, DWQ, USFWS, and local cities and counties to provide for high-quality recreation opportunities, including bird watching and waterfowl hunting opportunities and safe primary and secondary contact recreation opportunities. 2) Consider how management actions impact high-quality recreation opportunities at varying lake levels. 3) Consider the impact of invasive species (e.g., Phragmites) on boating opportunities. 4) Maintain water quality sufficient to protect the recreation beneficial uses designated to GSL. 5) Identify areas where recreation opportunities may be impacted by other uses. | GSL CMP | 3-24 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Understand the components and linkages that define a sustainable GSL ecosystem. 1) Support agency management and permitting actions that strive to attain key ecological targets/benchmarks developed in future peer-reviewed research. Support research by and coordinate efforts with all agencies listed above to better understand the minimum lake level required to support the GSL ecosystem. 2) Identify constraints and opportunities to achieve ecological targets and/or benchmarks established in future peer reviewed research. 3) Identify and support research that further defines GSL ecological condition. | GSL CMP | 3-3 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | GSL is a unique and complex ecosystem of regional and hemispherical importance. Sustainable use of GSL?s natural resources will ensure that the ecological health (e.g., water quality, shoreline condition, salinity, aquatic organisms, wildlife, wetlands), scenic attributes, extractive industries (e.g., minerals, brine shrimp, microorganisms), and recreation opportunities (e.g., bird watching, hunting, sailing) will be maintained into the future. FFSL will coordinate, as necessary, to ensure that he management of these resources is based on a holistic view of the lake-wide ecosystem?including the use of adaptive management, as necessary?to ensure long-term sustainability. Responsible stewardship of GSL?s resources will provide lasting benefit to the Public Trust. | GSL CMP | Xii |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Manage at extremely high and low lake levels to reduce impacts to ecosystems, industry, and infrastructure. 1) Support DWRe pumping activities when the lake reaches 4,208 feet to mitigate impacts to GSL resources. 2) Coordinate with industry to monitor and maintain breach near Strong?s Knob to facilitate pumping. 3) New leases subject to suspended operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing operators may not besubject to this management strategy. 4) New leases and permits may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or less (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]) | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Consider water quality in all management actions. 1) When considering new permits or permit renewals, coordinate leasing with DWQ-required permits (UPES, general, stormwater, and the associated antidegradation review) where applicable, including research on negative water quality impacts associated with actions. 2) Support DWQ to establish numeric criteria for mercury, nutrients, and other contaminants as they are identified and as they have the potential to impact GSL recreation and aquatic life beneficial uses. 3) Communicate new project proposals to DWQ to help ensure impacts do not affect compliance with the existing narrative standard and the numeric selenium standard. 4) Continue to support DWQ's efforts to assess the water quality condition of the lake and trackcontaminants of concern. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Maintain existing facilities and consider other opportunities to improve connectivity between bays in a manner that supports FFSL?s multiple-use, sustained yield mandate. 1) Support efforts to improve circulation between bays in a manner that supports food webs dependent on brine flies and brine shrimp, brine shrimp cysts, and current mineral extraction. 2) Understand the hydrologic effects of the Northern Railroad Causeway culverts and how proposed modifications to the causeway would impact salinity in the North and South arms. 3) Promote maintenance of structures to ensure bidirectional flow in Northern Railroad Causeway culverts. 4) Enforce agreement with Union Pacific to maintain or increase circulation through culverts or other structures. 5) Together with USACE, consider proposals to increase circulation in the lake in a manner that supports FFSL?s multiple-use, sustained yield mandate. 6) Continue and expand GSL salt cycle research by DWRe, UGS, and USGS, including efforts to quantify volume of salt and other minerals within various parts of the lake at different lake levels (e.g., quantify volume of precipitated salt and other minerals in the North Arm, quantify volume of salt and other minerals in solution in various arms of GSL, quantify volume of salts retained in evaporation ponds, etc.). 7) Support research by DWR, UGS, DWRe, and USGS on the role of lake circulation on the occurrence of the DBL, brine shrimp populations, bioherms, and water quality at varying lake levels. 8) Coordinate with Davis County to help ensure safe operation and good maintenance of the Davis County Causeway. 9) Continue to support DWQ's efforts to assess the water quality condition of the lake and track contaminants of concern. 10) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Understand the impacts of climate change on GSL lake level and water chemistry. 1)Consider emerging climate change research and findings from the appropriate resources and agencies when making future management decisions. 2) Support research to evaluate the impacts of climate change on GSL lake level and water chemistry. | GSL CMP | 3-11 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support a range of salinity levels that support the brine shrimp population, the associated food web, and the brine shrimp harvesting industry. 1) Coordinate with DWRi and UGS to evaluate how authorization of water rights applications would affect salinity of GSL at a range of lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate impacts to brine shrimp populations at a range of lake levels when reviewing new permits/leases and permit/lease renewals. 3) Identify research opportunities with DWQ, DWR, and UGS for studying the effects of lake salinity levels and water quality on brine shrimp. 4) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 5) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine shrimp and the water column. 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 7) Coordinate with the managing, permitting, and intersecting entities to maintain ideal salinity levels for brine shrimp resources. 8) Continue to partner with UGS to monitor salinity levels and DWR to monitor brine shrimp populations. | GSL CMP | 3-12 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of a range of salinity levels that supports the brine fly populations and the associated food web. 1) Promote research (e.g., USGS, DWR, and DWQ) on the drivers of the brine fly trophic web, including nutrient loading effects on brine shrimp populations, brine fly populations, phytoplankton, and bioherms. 2) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 3) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 4) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine flies and the water column. | GSL CMP | 3-13 |
| Wetlands | Maintain GSL water quality to help ensure wetland health and beneficial uses. 1) When considering new permits or lease renewals, coordinate with USACE and DWQ to help ensure impacts do not affect compliance with applicable water quality standards. 2) Coordinate with BLM, DWR, DSPR, and other land managers to discuss potential impacts to wetlands resulting from a proposed project. 3) Continue to support DWQ to assess and protect the aquatic life beneficial uses of GSL wetlands. 4) Coordinate with DWQ issuance of water quality certifications pursuant to Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and Utah Water Quality Act (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R19-5-101?124). 5) Continue to support DWQ in identifying water quality standards for wetlands. | GSL CMP | 3-8 | |
| Wetlands | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of a wetland mosaic. 1) Consider implications to wetland hydrology and connectivity when evaluating permits on sovereign lands. 2) Support wetland managers as they seek to achieve optimum duration and seasonality of inundation. 3) Support efforts by DWR in working with DWRi to acquire water rights for specific areas of ecological importance such as wetlands and WMAs. 4) Support and encourage wetland protection efforts adjacent to sovereign lands. Assist with development of a list of priority wetlands that could be protected where protection efforts would benefit the GSL ecosystem | GSL CMP | 3-9 | |
| Wetlands | Understand the extent and condition of wetlands around GSL. 1) Foster collaboration between research and management entities, including DWR, DWQ, USFWS, and UGS, on future assessment and mapping of impounded and unimpounded wetlands. 2) Coordinate with research and management entities to identify wetland stressors. 3) Continue to support DWQ to assess and protect the aquatic life beneficial uses of GSL wetlands. | GSL CMP | 3-9 | |
| Wetlands | Coordinate with other landowners and managers to support upland wetland habitats in other nesting and foraging areas near and associated with GSL (e.g., Cutler Reservoir, Utah Lake, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, and Bear River). | GSL CMP | 3-14 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of viable populations of nesting bird species of regional/global importance and the habitats that support them. 1) Coordinate and encourage the maintenance of a diversity of habitats and adequate food supply that support nesting birds. 2) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 3) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on nesting bird populations and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to nesting bird habitat. 4) Support inventory, monitoring, and research of nesting bird populations through DWR. 5) Support DWQ and USGS research and monitoring of water quality impacts to nesting bird populations. 6) Support DWQ in maintaining water quality sufficient to protect the waterfowl, shorebird, and wildlife beneficial uses for GSL. 7) Minimize disturbance to nesting habitat areas by coordinating permitting and land management activities with DWR. 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 9) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. | GSL CMP | 3-14 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of viable populations of migratory bird species of regional/global significance and the habitats that support them. 1) Coordinate with DWR to encourage the maintenance of a diversity of habitats and adequate food supply that support migratory stopover, staging, and wintering birds. 2) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 3) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on migratory bird populations and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to migratory bird habitat. 4) Support DWQ in maintaining water quality sufficient to protect the waterfowl, shorebird, and wildlife beneficial uses for GSL. 5) Support DWQ and USGS research and monitoring of water quality impacts to migratory bird populations. 6) Support inventory, monitoring, and research of migrating bird populations through DWR. 7) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. | GSL CMP | 3-15 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the need to maintain the isolation of nesting and breeding habitats for bird species of regional/global importance. 1) Coordinate with DWR and USFWS to determine effects of permitting action on rookeries. 2) Coordinate with DWR to implement activities that protect rookery habitat. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 4) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on island rookeries and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to bird habitat. | GSL CMP | 3-15 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Assess Current Conditions Related to Mineral Resource Extraction and Known Reserves/Balances 1) Describe historical mineral extraction activities as of the date of the MLP. 2) Document existing mineral extraction activities, including location, type of mineral extracted, uses for extracted minerals, and quantity of minerals being extracted. 3) Identify mineral balances (i.e., salt balances) based on current conditions and known reserves of oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources and promote their sustainable yield and mitigation of effects on the environment. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Integrate Mineral Resource Planning with Other Resource Planning 1) Create a framework for long-term policy direction for minerals management that also has the flexibility to respond to the dynamic character of GSL. 2) Integrate management of GSL?s mineral resources with the lake?s other resources so that all resources are managed for the health and integrity of the GSL ecosystem. 3) Identify compatible uses and conflicts among mineral resource development and other resources on GSL and try to identify possible resolutions for conflicts. 4) Align with and use the GSL Lake Level Matrix and management strategies outlined in the 2013 GSL CMP when considering new applications. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Plan for Leasing and Efficient Development of Mineral Resources 1) Classify areas of GSL that are suitable for mineral extraction and areas that are to be excluded from mineral extraction. 2) Provide for the orderly leasing of mineral resources to existing and potential mineral lessees. 3) Ensure fair compensation to the state from development and extraction of GSL?s various mineral resources. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Establish Transparent Mineral Leasing Application Process 1) Initiate the development of a FFSL permitting process that the winning bidder is required to complete once the winning bidder has been notified of the award. 2) Ensure that the applicant knows about the various permits, applications, etc., required by other State of Utah and federal government agencies. 3) Allow for coordination and review of a proposed project by pertinent state and federal agencies. 4) Allow opportunities for project-specific analysis, as deemed appropriate. 5) Provide opportunities for public comment on proposed projects as deemed appropriate and pursuant to division rules. 6) Provide applicant with a record of decision. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Identify Data Gaps in Existing Knowledge Related to Mineral Extraction 1) Provide a summary of areas requiring further study, particularly as they relate to existing and potential impacts from mineral extraction on mineral balances, lake levels, water quality, and habitat degradation. | GSL MLP | 2-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Assert Role of FFSL as a Manager of State-owned Lands 1) Clearly define sovereign lands for resource users, the public, and other resource management agencies. 2) Act as lead agency in coordinating GSL-related activities, as outlined in UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8. | GSL MLP | 2-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Guide Opportunities for Mineral Leasing in Appropriate Locations throughout Great Salt Lake | GSL MLP | 5-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Understand Impacts of Proposed Projects on Great Salt Lake Resources | GSL MLP | 5-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Plan for Short- and Long-term Impacts of Mineral Operations on Great Salt Lake | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Understand and Plan for Long-term Impacts of Causeways and Dikes | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize Threats to Mineral Development Sites from Natural Hazards and Plan to Reduce Exposure to Hazards | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize Threats to Mineral Development Sites from Natural Hazards and Plan to Reduce Exposure to Hazards | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Establish Procedures for Mineral Leasing Permitting Process | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Balance the Interests between the Public Trust and Private Entities to Encourage Efficient Use of Mineral Resources | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Ensure Prudent Operations during Mineral Operations and Appropriate Reclamation after Mineral Developments Cease | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Coordinate Management, Permitting, and Research Activities between Applicable Local, State, and Federal Agencies Surrounding Great Salt Lake. | GSL MLP | 5-8 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Enhance Coordination Efforts between FFSL and other Government Agencies | GSL MLP | 5-8 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Ensure National Forest management activities result in meeting state and federal air quality standards, and comply with local, state and federal air quality regulations and requirements. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Fully integrate the Heritage Program into land and resource management. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Implement the National Heritage Strategy emphasizing the need for non-project inventories (Section 110) and public education and awareness programs. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Inventory, evaluate, protect and enhance heritage sites and landscapes. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Increase public understanding and support of the active use of fire to improve watershed and habitat conditions and reduce fuels. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Reduce hazardous fuels (prescribed fire, silvicultural and mechanical treatments) with emphasis on interface communities (wildland/urban) and increase proactive participation of communities at risk. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Restore or maintain fire-adapted ecosystems (consistent with land uses, historic fire regimes, and other Forest Plan direction) through wildland fire use, prescribed fire, timber harvest or mechanical treatments. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain and/or restore tall forb communities to mid seral or potential natural community (PNC) status. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore as mature and old age classes 40% of total conifer and 30% of total aspen cover types, well distributed across the landscape. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore species composition, such that the species that occupy any given site are predominantly native species in the kind and amount that were historically distributed across the landscapes. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Forest Management | Products | Use timber harvest where allowed, to contribute to the economy while achieving properly functioning conditions of vegetation and watersheds. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Land Access | Planning | Acquire access and rights-of-way for general public and administrative use. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Minimize the addition of special use encumbered areas of National Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Efforts will be made to obtain right-of-ways for public access to the National Forest. Existing right-of ways will be maintained. A priority for right-of-ways will be the linkages to community trails along the front. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-135 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Regional trails, such as the Great Western Trail and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail will be recognized and valued as unique opportunities to develop recreation corridors across multiple ownerships in the face of expanding development across potential trail corridors. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-160 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Ogden area in cooperation with the cities of North Ogden, Pleasant View and Willard. Needed access and rights of way will be maintained or acquired to complete the Bonneville Shoreline trail along the Wasatch Front. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-146 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Use | Utility corridors | Utilize currently designated utility corridors fully for power transmission lines of 66kV or greater and oil and gas pipelines 10? or greater. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Recognize and manage for the importance of scenic forest landscapes to overall recreation settings as well as to the quality of life for communities adjacent to the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Restore, maintain or enhance landscape scenic integrity across the variety of landscape character themes found on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Law Enforcement | Increase Forest Service field presence in key areas, improve effectiveness of public information on restrictions, and increase participation of individuals and organized groups in monitoring uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Manage livestock grazing levels and operations on suitable lands for sustainable forage use within properly functioning conditions. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Greatly reduce known infestations of noxious weeds and rigorously prevent their introduction and/or spread. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Improve Forest user?s awareness of what noxious weeds are and how they spread and increase Forest users? active participation in reducing and preventing infestations. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Involve Forest users in developing strategies for managing recreation to meet desired future conditions and address recreation pressures and demands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Increase Forest recreation user stewardship of resources and strengthen awareness of user ethics for reducing resource and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Encourage private enterprise to develop recreational facilities on and off the Forest that provide for a range of recreation opportunities (e.g. camping and picnicking areas, trailheads, and interpretive sites). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Manage for an array of recreation opportunities and settings to improve the quality of life for a variety of Forest recreation users. Balance growth and expansion of recreation by managing within the capability of sustainable ecosystems found on the Forest for today and the future. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Use ski area associated private and public developed recreation facilities to provide world-class skiing and mountain resort opportunities while contributing to the economy. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Acquire lands or easements needed to facilitate Bonneville Shoreline and Great Western Trails development. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Manage trails to provide desired recreation opportunities for recreation users and to meet Forest Service standards. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage recreation use of undeveloped areas on the forest to provide for desirable opportunities while preventing or reducing resource impacts and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage uses of new recreational technologies to provide for opportunities while preventing or minimizing negative social and/or resource impacts on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Work closely with city, county, state and tribal governments to provide for integrated, coordinated development and management (including enforcement) of OHV activities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Maintain pollinators and minimize impacts to pollinators or their habitats. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Improve Forest users? understanding of the values of and potential human impacts to biodiversity and viability of species. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Increase understanding of and support research on the distribution, ecology, and threats to plant species at risk, nonvascular plants and rare plant communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain or restore viability of populations of species at risk, Watch List Plants, and rare communities | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain viability of species-at-risk (including endangered, threatened and sensitive species and unique communities). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Manage Forest Service sensitive species to prevent them from being classified as threatened or endangered and where possible provide for delisting as sensitive (FSM 2670). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or improve water quality to provide stable and productive riparian and aquatic ecosystems. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore overall watershed health (proper functioning of physical, biological and chemical conditions). Provide for long term soil productivity. Watershed health should be addressed across administrative and political boundaries. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore stream channel integrity, channel processes, and sediment regimes (timing, volume, character of sediment input/transport) under which riparian & aquatic ecosystems developed. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain water in streams, lakes, and wetlands of adequate quantity and quality to provide for instream flows and existing downstream uses including support of healthy riparian & aquatic habitats, stability & effective function of stream channels, ability to route flood discharges, and to maintain recreation opportunities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Protect waters meeting or surpassing State water quality standards by planning and designing land management activities to protect water quality. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Design and implement watershed management programs and plans that will restore water quality and watershed function to support beneficial uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Maintain and/or restore soil productivity to improve watershed functioning through managing ground cover, soil compaction, and vegetation. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Identify [watershed] areas not in properly functioning condition. Improve plant species composition, ground cover and age class diversity in these areas. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wilderness | Manage Wildernesses recognizing differences in population proximity and consequent role in providing wilderness experiences for more people. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Evaluate areas with potential for Research Natural Area designation including Ben Lomond Peak (tall forb values), western portion of the Deseret Peak Wilderness (Great Basin community types and cryptogamic crusts). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide adequate habitat components for sustainable big game populations coordinated with State wildlife management agencies, private lands and other resource needs and priorities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide suitable habitat for prey species such as hares, squirrels, and small mammals. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | upgrade school and institutional trust land assets where prudent by exchange. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | manage school and institutional trust lands for their highest and best trust land use. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | maximize the commercial gain from trust land uses for school and institutional trust lands consistent with long-term support of beneficiaries | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | permit other land uses or activities not prohibited by law which do not constitute a loss of trust assets or loss of economic opportunity. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Predator Control | Maintain a healthy cougar population within their current distribution while considering human safety, economic concerns, other wildlife species, and maintaining hunting traditions through 2025. | Utah Cougar Management Plan | 3 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Increase opportunities for viewing mule deer while educating the public concerning the needs of deer and the importance of habitat and other limiting factors. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Provide a diversity of high-quality hunting and viewing opportunities for mule deer throughout the state. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Goal: Conserve, improve, and restore mule deer habitat throughout the state with emphasis on crucial ranges. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 18 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Objective 1: Maintain mule deer habitat throughout the state by protecting and enhancing existing crucial habitats and mitigating for losses due to natural and human impacts. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 18 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Objective 2: Improve the quality and quantity of vegetation for mule deer on a minimum of 500,000 acres of crucial range by 2019. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 19 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Maintain a hunting program for mule deer that encourages a variety of quality hunting opportunities while maintaining population objectives. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 20 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Population Management Goal: Expand and improve mule deer populations throughout the state within the carrying capacity of available habitats and in consideration of other land uses. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 17 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Population Objective: By 2019, increase mule deer populations within the state as conditions allow and bring all populations to their unit objective (currently (2014) 425,400). | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 17 |
| Predator Control | The DWR predator-control program provides incentives for hunters to remove coyotes. Primary goal of the program is to remove coyotes from areas where they may prey on mule deer. Participants receive $50 for each properly documented coyote that they kill in Utah. | Utah Predator Control Program Summary 2014-2015 | 0 | |
| Fisheries | Barriers | Native ?shes are able to move past water-??diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Fisheries | Barriers | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Fisheries | Barriers | Native ?shes are able to move past water?diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Fisheries | Flows | Establish water allocation policies protecting su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem for aquatic key habitats (especially those with occurrences of SGCNs). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Fisheries | Flows | Natural hydrographs (timing, duration, temperature, etc) are restored or mimicked in priority stream reaches below dams and reservoirs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 205 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Aquatic key habitats (especially at those locations important for SGCNs) contain su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem that supports the conservation target(s). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 196 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Complex habitats and ?oodplain connections are restored or maintained in selected rivers/streams. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 199 |
| Land Use | Open space | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Livestock and Grazing | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Invasive plant dominance/presence is reduced or eliminated in locations or habitats where such an outcome is realistic (ecologically and economically). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 228 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Locations/habitats that currently do not have non-??native plant problems remain free from the introduction and spread of invasive non-??native plants. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 226 | |
| Predator Control | Depleted native species whose populations require relief from native predators, receive assistance for as long as they need it, and no longer. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 240 | |
| Predator Control | Highly human-??tolerant problematic bird and mammal species are kept in check where their success has the potential to become problematic. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 240 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Responsible recreation is promoted and encouraged via e?ective education and enforcement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 178 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Recreational opportunities (OHV) are designed and presented in ways that encourage and promote responsible participation, while also ensuring that wildlife and habitat impacts are kept at acceptably low levels. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 177 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Aquatic key habitats (especially at those locations important for SGCNs) contain su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem that supports the conservation target(s). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 196 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Complex habitats and ?oodplain connections are restored or maintained in selected rivers/streams. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 199 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Establish water allocation policies protecting su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem for aquatic key habitats (especially those with occurrences of SGCNs). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Native ?shes are able to move past water-??diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Natural hydrographs (timing, duration, temperature, etc) are restored or mimicked in priority stream reaches below dams and reservoirs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 205 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Locations/habitats that currently do not have non-??native plant problems remain free from the introduction and spread of invasive non-??native plants. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 226 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Recreational opportunities (OHV) are designed and presented in ways that encourage and promote responsible participation, while also ensuring that wildlife and habitat impacts are kept at acceptably low levels. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 177 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Responsible recreation is promoted and encouraged via e?ective education and enforcement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 178 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 |
| Water Rights | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 | |
| Wetlands | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Inappropriate Fire Frequency and Intensity - Fire is excluded from habitats in which potential burns now would be frequent, large, and destructive to soils and native vegetation to the habitats are being actively managed (treated) to reduce components or factors that promote risk of catastrophic ?re, such as cheatgrass, excessive conifer encroachment, or unnaturally large stands of mature Gambel oak | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 188 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Enhance air quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Promote conservation of energy. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Open space | Encourage conservation of open space and irreplaceable natural resources in land use decisions. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote conservation of regionally significant critical lands. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect and enhance the natural environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Enhance the aesthetic beauty of our built environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Create and enhance access to areas of natural beauty and recreation. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Encourage community trails coordinated with regional/state trail systems. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Promote conservation of water [and] enhance water quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Noxious weeds | Established noxious weed infestations are not increasing or are reduced to low densities. New invader species are not becoming established. New infestations of species are contained or reduced. New populations of existing noxious weeds are eradicated or reduced in highly susceptible, often disturbed areas. Native plants dominate most landscapes that have been rehabilitated. | Wasatch-Cache National Forest Noxious Weed Treatment Program:DEIS | 1/15/2016 | |
| Agriculture | Land use | To protect the working lands of the Wasatch Front which include forests, orchards, rangelands, and agricultural lands. To support the economic viability of working lands, maintain their benefits, and to retain the rural character of the region. | WFRC (re)connect | 46 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | To promote the development of healthy communities, places we live, work, and gather. To preserve and strengthen cultural resources, places of heritage, and economic health. | WFRC (re)connect | 53 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | To promote a healthy hydrological system which encourages efficient flood control and water conveyance, while providing clean water, wildlife habitat, and recreational uses. | WFRC (re)connect | 32 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | To protect and enhance parks and open space of the Wasatch Front, to connect land and water corridors, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities such as fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing, paddling, camping, and trail-based activities. To strengthen the vibrant network of parks, trails, scenic qualities, recreational amenities, and natural lands in the Wasatch Front. | WFRC (re)connect | 39 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | To protect and enhance the water resources of the Wasatch Front, including watersheds, wetlands, groundwater, and source water areas, to ensure water quality, and to provide a continually safe and abundant water supply. | WFRC (re)connect | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | To protect and enhance natural landscapes, ecosystems, and the biodiversity of the Wasatch Front Region. To provide habitat for plant communities, wildlife, and fisheries, and to include unique ecological communities for rare, threatened or endangered species; and areas of environmental concern. | WFRC (re)connect | 23 |
| Noxious weeds | Appropriately manage existing and invasive weeds in Utah through: A) education and research; B) Mapping and monitoring; C) Prevention, early detection, and rapid response; D) Control - integrated weed management; E) Restoration; F) Regulation and enforcement; G) Funding. | Utah Strategic Plan for Managing Noxious and Invasive Weeds | 18 |