Tooele County Priorities
For data gathering purposes the County identified these priorities:
- Land Use
- Water Quality and Hydrology
- Livestock and Grazing
- Land Access
- Mining/Mineral Resources
WFRC Plan Review Matrix – Related to Tooele 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Management | Ecology | Objectives for fire management are planned results which can more than likely be attained and are categorized by vegetation type. [The plan identifies fire management objectives by vegetation types] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Air Quality | Evaluations | Evaluations will consider the impacts of any proposed projects to soil, water, and air resources in the affected area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Air quality will be maintained or improved in accordance with State and Federal standards, including consultation with State agencies on proposed projects that may significantly affect air quality. Management actions on public land will be designed to protect against significant air quality deterioration. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Efforts will be undertaken on a regular and systematic basis to educate the public on the values of preserving their historic and prehistoric heritage. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A monitoring plan will be developed for the Resource Area. This plan will present a systematic scheme for examining significant sites over time to determine the causal agent and whether there is any deterioration of the sites. Steps may then be taken to protect the sites being damaged. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A predictive model of archaeological site locations shall be developed to provide the basis for the protection of cultural resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A sensitivity map will be developed which will depict the geological formations and areas with known potential to contain important paleontological resources. Should a proposed surface-disturbing project be within an area of high sensitivity for paleontological resources, the State paleontologist will be consulted prior to the issuance of a decision. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | As time and funding allow, BLM will evaluate all recorded [cultural resource] sites on public lands within the Resource Area and assign them to one of three management categories, indicating availability for: (1) immediate scientific research, (2) recreation use/interpretation, or (3) conservation for future use. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Cultural resources (which include historic and prehistoric sites, artifacts, structures or locales) will continue to be inventoried and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Such evaluation will consider the impacts of any proposed project to cultural resources in the affected area. Stipulations will be attached as appropriate to assure compatibility of projects with management objectives for cultural resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Prescribed fire will be used as a resource management tool. Figure 11 indicates the fire management and use areas in Tooele County. Prescribed burns within the areas will be used to alter vegetation for the benefit of watershed, livestock grazing and/or wildlife habitat. The areas selected for prescribed burning will have the potential for natural revegetation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| 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 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Management actions within floodplains and wetlands will include measures to preserve, protect, and if necessary, restore their natural functions. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Forest Management | Products | All other areas of juniper forest on public land within the Pony Express Resource Area shall remain open to harvesting of firewood, fence posts, Christmas trees or any other juniper products as defined in the Tooele County Woodland Management Plan and the Utah Supplemental Guidance: Management of Woodland Resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | Harvest of firewood, fence posts and Christmas trees shall not be authorized in crucial deer winter range during the period of December 1 to April 30. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | No harvest of saw timber for commercial or individual use shall not be allowed anywhere on public land within the Pony Express Resource Area except for maintenance practices such as thinning, disease control, wildlife improvements, and watershed enhancement. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | The harvest of pinyon pine for use as Christmas trees, either commercially or individually, shall be at the discretion of the Authorized Officer. These stands will be managed as outlined in the Utah Supplemental Guidance: Management of Woodland Resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Geology | Erosion | Areas of erosion on public land will be identified and evaluated to identify sources and determine improvements. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | BLM will not authorize placement or processing of hazardous wastes on public lands. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Evaluate the known or unknown existing hazardous waste sites and take necessary actions as required by law. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Approximately 30,203 acres of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Tooele County will continue to be managed as an ACEC. The following areas also would be designated as ACECs: Horseshoe Springs, North Stansbury Mountains, North Deep Creek Mountains. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Acquire certain private lands or interests in lands where needed to increase management efficiency and administration of lands with high public values. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Identify public lands available for disposal, available for exchange, and unavailable for disposal. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Identify lands of high public value, which include critical or crucial wildlife habitats, wilderness study areas, existing and proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, significant water resources, recreation areas, highly scenic areas, and areas with facilities and improvements. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Stipulations for use of public lands for military exercises | BLM Pony Express RMP | 16 |
| Land Use | Utility corridors | Future proposals for major, rights-of-way such as pipelines, large power lines and permanent improved roads will, to the extent practical, utilize identified corridors and rights-of-way as shown in [Figure]. Otherwise, a planning amendment and appropriate environmental analysis will be required. Proposals that are not considered major may be sited outside existing corridors and rights-of-way after demonstrating that locating within a corridor or right-of-way is not viable. In all cases, the utilization of rights-of-way in common shall be considered whenever possible. Rights-of-way, whether within or outside a corridor, will avoid the following areas to the maximum extent possible: [identified in the plan] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Designate [all public lands in appropriate] visual resource management (VRM) classes. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Livestock and Grazing | BLM will authorize livestock forage use as shown in Table 7 [in the plan] on six allotments. Grazing permits on six small, isolated allotments with minimal or no actual livestock use will be cancelled. These allotments are ... | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Categorize the twelve [grazing] allotments in Utah County in the Custodial (C) category. Allotments in this management category have limited or no potential for improvement or return on investment. Present management is satisfactory or the most logical practice for the resource involved. Permittees will be encouraged to invest in rangeland improvement projects. The allotments will be monitored approximately once every 10 years to assure that resource deterioration is not occurring. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Grazing use in allotments can be improved with development of plans including goals and objectives. The intensity and level of detail for the AMPS will vary depending on the nature of conflicts. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 25 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | The distribution of AlJMs in Tooele County will continue until and unless reduced by disposal of lands under the Lands Program. (The BLM specifies a breakdown of AUMs allocated to cattle, sheep domestic horses, wild horses, mule deer, elk, antelope,and bighorn sheep) | BLM Pony Express RMP | 25 | |
| Mineral Resources | Categorize lands as open to fluid mineral leasing, open with special stipulations, allowing no surface occupancy, or closed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 | |
| Mining | Applications to remove other types of leasable minerals such as phosphate, tar sands, and oil shale, will be processed on a case-by-case basis. Stipulations to protect important surface values will be required based on review of each proposal. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 22 | |
| Mining | Categorize lands as open to fluid mineral leasing, open with special stipulations, allowing no surface occupancy, or closed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 | |
| Mining | Identify land withdrawals (lands not available for mining) to protect rare and unique resources and public interests | BLM Pony Express RMP | 16 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Manage the following areas as Special Recreation Management Areas (RMAs): Bonneville Salt Flats, Pony Express Route, North Deep Creek, Payson Motocross Track, Knolls Special RMA. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Designate all public land in the Resource Area as either open, closed, or limited for off-road vehicle (OHV) use. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Riparian Areas | BLM will manage riparian areas, wetlands, and other water sources for multiple use purposes such as wildlife, range, watershed and recreation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | [Measures will be made to improve and encourage the propagation of these important species [bald eagle, peregrine falcon]. BLM will also protect candidate species during critical nesting periods. These species include ferruginous hawks and swainson?s hawks. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | BLM will monitor selected perennial streams for water quality trend to insure that management activities on public lands comply with existing State water quality standards. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Evaluations will consider the impacts of any proposed projects to soil, water, and air resources in the affected area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Water Rights | BLM will acquire and protect water rights for use on public land and maintain them in cooperation with the State Water Engineer. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 | |
| Wetlands | BLM will manage riparian areas, wetlands, and other water sources for multiple use purposes such as wildlife, range, watershed and recreation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Wetlands | Management actions within floodplains and wetlands will include measures to preserve, protect, and if necessary, restore their natural functions. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Wilderness | No wood products of any kind may be harvested from public land within the areas recommended for designation as wilderness. This decision will not prohibit thinning of trees for management purposes, i.e., habitat: improvement, watershed, or riparian zone protection, as approved by the State Director on a case-by-case basis. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 | |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | BLM will use cooperative management plans to provide an opportunity for wildlife habitat development and improvement. Habitat could be expanded on public lands by converting isolated tracts of rangeland within pheasant range to cropland or irrigated pasture. Cooperative agreements between BLM, UDWR and a lessee who farms the land work effectively. Under such an agreement, the lessee would employ farming practices which provide pheasant habitat and allow public hunting in exchange for farm production values received on the harvested portion. Only areas with suitable soil and adequate water near existing agricultural areas should be considered. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will develop and implement Habitat Management Plans (HMPs) or other more specific wildlife activity plans to protect, improve and maintain all important wildlife habitat. The HMPs will be prepared cooperatively with UDWR to assure that the State?s wildlife management objectives are met. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will improve crucial habitats of present wildlife populations where condition and trend indicates a decline of desirable plant communities. An appropriate wildlife habitat study will be conducted to determine .the condition of these areas. This information will help guide BLM in planning improvement projects. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will improve, maintain and expand those areas suitable for waterfowl and shorebird habitat. Measures could include (1) implementation of appropriate marsh and wetland maintenance and protection through grazing systems, use restrictions, and fencing if appropriate; (2) expansion through appropriate land and water right acquisitions, habitat management plan development and implementation; (3) waterfowl improvement through construction of new reservoirs and modification of suitable range or watershed reservoir projects, vegetation plantings, protected nesting area construction; and (4) open water and loafing area construction through such measures as pothole blasting and dike construction. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will protect important wildlife habitat values from disturbing activities by restricting seismic work, well development, new road construction, rights-of-way, organized recreational activities, military exercises, and other disturbing activities excluding maintenance activities in the following areas [and] during the stated time periods [specified in the Plan]. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Rangeland watering facilities will allow for wildlife use. When possible, overflow ponds at water developments will be at least 100 yards from livestock watering sources to allow for a cleaner water source for wildlife. Location of future water developments should minimize conflicts between livestock and wildlife. All livestock fencing projects will allow for movement of wildlife. Design and specifications will be dictated by terrain, kind of livestock and species to be managed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM proposes to cooperate fully with peregrine falcon reintroductions into the Timpie Springs and Blue Lake Areas. Surface disturbing activities on public lands adjacent to these reintroduction sites will not be permitted to disturb birds or destroy important habitat. BLM will develop specifics for further management actions in the HMP for the habitat area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will agree to future reintroductions of big game species on the public lands within the Resource Area if the [appropriate] criteria are met [as specified in the Plan] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to encourage UDWR?s proposed reintroduction/transplants of upland game birds (chukar partridge, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, ring-necked pheasants, etc.) onto suitable habitat within the Resource Area. Specifics for implementing any such proposed reintroduction/transplants shall be developed in the HMP for the habitat area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to manage the herd size of the Cedar Mountain Wild Horse Unit at 85 animals (1,020 AUMs) and the Onaqui Mountain Unit at 45 animals (540 AUMs). | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to monitor the reintroduced herd of antelope (150 animals) in southern Rush Valley, Tooele County, to determine if the herd conflicts with any other uses. If monitoring shows that major conflicts exist, close coordination with all affected parties will be undertaken to resolve the problems. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to work cooperatively with UDWR to reintroduce bighorn sheep into the Deep Creek and Stansbury Mountains. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Enhance an average of 25,000 acres of sage-grouse habitat in Sage-grouse Management Areas annually. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Increase the total amount of sage-grouse habitat acreage within Sage-grouse Management Areas by an average of 50,000 acres per year, through management actions targeting Opportunity Areas. Opportunity Areas are areas which offer the best potential for creating new habitat for greater sage-grouse. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Protect 10,000 acres of sage-grouse habitat on private and School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) lands annually through conservation covenants, leases, easements or other legal tools, with emphasis on the best-of-the-best populations. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Protect, maintain, improve and enhance sage-grouse populations and habitats within the established Sage-grouse Management Areas. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Sustain an average male lek count of 4100 males (based on a ten-year rolling average on a minimum of 200 monitored leks) in the Sage-grouse Management Areas, and increase the population of males to an average of 5000 (based on the same ten-year rolling average on a minimum of 200 monitored leks) within the Sage-grouse Management Areas. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Recreational land uses and access to them (especially to Forest Service and BLM areas) should be supported by County maintenance of dirt roads and creation of trails and trail systems | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 14 |
| Land Access | State/private | Efforts should be made to address problems stemming from public/private land ownership, including proper signage to help distinguish public lands from private lands and prevent trespassing. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 8 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Additional efforts should be made to provide public land-based recreational opportunities to all individuals regardless of age and/or physical ability. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Establish involvement in all federal and state agency recreation planning and resource management decisions to evaluate potential impacts to County services and facilities. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 11 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Improve/expand public awareness and education regarding Tooele County public land recreation opportunities. Outreach efforts may include additional trail/site markers and information displays, local interest articles in newspaper, Deseret Peak Information Center, local hostess program, passport tours, school tours, etc. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 12 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Tooele County will assume a more active role in public land recreation planning and decision-making processes. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | The County serves as the coordinating ?umbrella? for County recreation and heritage tourism efforts. The County continues to support private, special interest group, and community recreation and tourism efforts. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 9 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Actively participate in regional, state and community public land recreation and tourism promotion and marketing activities. Promote funding and materials coordination among same. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 12 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | The County should increase the number of trails and roads available for all types of recreation, including hiking, biking, ORV/ATV use, and equestrian use. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 8 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | The County should ensure that popular public lands activities, such as hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, jogging, nature study, and picnicking continue to be supported in its management of public lands. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 8 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Efforts should be made to balance ORV/ATV use with other uses, provide ORV/ATV rider education, address safety issues stemming from ORV/ATV use, and enforce ORV/ATV rules. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 8 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | User conflicts should be dealt with effectively, especially conflicts between motorized and non-motorized recreation groups. | Tooele County Access Plan, 2008 | 8 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | (A) Lands within Tooele County considered for any special designation and the impacts of the National Historic Preservation Act are an issue of concern for Tooele County. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | The preservation of these resources can be supported by inventory, education and protection programs. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-2. |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | protect against direct and substantial impacts to nationally recognized cultural resources, both historical and archaeological | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Achieve and Maintain a Continuing Yield of Energy and Mineral Resources in the Proposed Wilderness Regions at the highest levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Land Access | Economic considerations | meet the recreational needs and the personal and business-related transportation needs of the citizens of Tooele County by providing access throughout the county | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-38 |
| Land Access | Planning | (A) In 2008 Tooele County adopted an Access Plan as a component of the Chapter 19, Tooele County Resource Management Plan of the General Plan. The Access Plan focuses on goals for maintaining and improving access to Public Lands within the County. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | Planning | (B) Tooele County plans to keep all such roads in the Regions open and reasonably maintained and in good repair. Tooele County will consult with the BLM about any required improvements to such roads, reserving the right to request court intervention and relief in the event Tooele County and BLM cannot reach an agreement on such proposed improvements after reasonable efforts at consultation. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | Planning | Maintain and keep open all Roads in the Proposed Wilderness Regions that appear on Tooele County?s Official Transportation Map and are included as part of the Tooele County Access Plan, and provide for such additional roads and trails as may be necessary from time to time. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | Recreation | (A) Traditionally, citizens of Tooele County and visitors have enjoyed many forms of outdoor recreation in the Regions, such as hunting, fishing, hiking, family and group parties, family and group campouts and campfires, rock hounding, OHV travel, geological exploring, pioneering, parking their RV, or just plain touring in their personal vehicles. Such activities are important to Tooele County?s character. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 |
| Land Access | Recreation | (D) continued historical public motorized or mechanized access to all traditional outdoor recreational destinations in all areas of the Regions for all such segments of the public. Tooele County specifically opposes restricting outdoor recreation in the Regions to just one form available for those who have enough time, money and athletic ability to hike into the destinations of the Regions for a so-called ?solitude wilderness experience?, or the like. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 |
| Land Access | Recreation | (E) Accordingly, all roads and trails in the Regions which historically have been open to OHV use, as identified on the County Road Map, should remain open. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 |
| Land Access | Recreation | (E) Accordingly, all roads in the Regions that are part of Tooele County?s duly adopted transportation plan and access plan shall remain open to motorized travel. None of them should be closed other than by action of Tooele County and the State of Utah. Tooele County should have the continued ability to maintain and repair those roads, and where reasonably necessary, make improvements thereon. All trails in the Regions that have been open to OHV use shall continue to remain open. Traditional levels of wildlife hunting and fishing should continue, consistent with sustainability of the resource at verified historical levels. Traditional levels of group camping, group day use and all other traditional forms of outdoor recreation motorized and non-motorized should continue. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Achieve and Maintain Traditional Motorized Access to Outdoor Recreational Opportunities available in the Proposed Wilderness Regions | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Tooele County will encourage and promote recreation uses and activities on public lands in a responsible manner. The County will work with agencies and private property owners to provide adequate public land and resource access, protect natural resources, and minimize impacts to private property. The County will also promote recreational opportunities and activities for individuals of all ages and physical ability. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-26 |
| Land Access | Recreation | meet the recreational needs and the personal and business-related transportation needs of the citizens of Tooele County by providing access throughout the county | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-38 |
| Land Access | State/private | (A) There are parcels of private fee land, including School and Institutional Trust Land, located in the Regions. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | State/private | (B) Tooele County?s plan for balanced multiple use also incorporates the need to focus special attention and concern toward any impacts that proposed designations could have on private property use, the financial impacts to our citizens, and the potential loss of historic and traditional uses and lifestyles by layering multiple designations upon the land. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 |
| Land Access | State/private | (B) As trustee, SITLA has a fiduciary responsibility to manage those school trust lands to generate maximum revenue there from, by making them available for sale and private development, and for other multiple and consumptive use activities such as mineral development, grazing, recreation, timber, agriculture and the like, all for the financial benefit of Utah?s public schools and other institutional beneficiaries. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-43 |
| Land Access | State/private | (B) Land management policies and standards on BLM land in the Regions should not interfere with the property rights of private landowners in the Regions to enjoy and engage in traditional uses and activities on their private property, consistent with controlling County zoning and land use laws. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | State/private | (C) Furthermore, additional roads and trails may be needed in the Regions from time to time to facilitate reasonable access to a broad range of resources and opportunities throughout the Regions, including livestock operations and improvements, all mineral operations, recreational opportunities and operations, search and rescue needs, other public safety needs, access to public lands for people with disabilities and the elderly, and access to Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands for the accomplishment of the purposes of those lands. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | State/private | (C) Land management policies and standards on BLM land in the region should not interfere with SITLA?s ability to carry out its fiduciary responsibilities. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-43 |
| Land Access | State/private | (C) Nor should those landowners and their guests or clients be denied the right of motorized access to their private property consistent with past uses of those private land parcels. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | State/private | (D) Nor should SITLA be denied the right of motorized access to those school trust sections to enable SITLA to put those sections to use in order to carry out its fiduciary responsibilities. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-43 |
| Land Access | State/private | 8. Manage the Proposed Wilderness Regions so as to not interfere with the Property Rights of Private Landowners located in the Wilderness Regions. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-42 |
| Land Access | State/private | 9. Manage the Proposed Wilderness Regions so as to not interfere with the Fiduciary Responsibility of the State School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (?SITLA?) with respect to Trust Lands Located in those Proposed Wilderness Regions. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-43 |
| Land Access | State/private | A) Scattered throughout the Regions are sections of school and institutional trust land owned by the State of Utah and administered by SITLA in trust for the benefit of public schools and other institutions (?school trust lands?), as mandated in Utah?s Enabling Act and State Constitution. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-43 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | To address safety concerns of residents regarding this industry, limit hazardous waste development to existing zones and maintain stringent permit requirements. The County?s citizens would benefi t from expanded access to hazardous waste businesses for the disposal of their commercial and industrial toxic wastes. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-2. |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | (A) Tooele County wishes to be fully involved as an affected entity in any process to consider the disposal of public lands or the acquisition of private lands to become public within the county?s jurisdiction. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | (B) The County recognizes that some tracts of public and private land are isolated, and since the County is the subject matter expert regarding the impacts to our economy, culture and customs from the transfer of ownership of these lands that are or may be identified for sale of purchase, County participation and local public input are essential. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Federal Acquisition of Private Lands is Contrary to Policies and Plans of Tooele County and the Tooele County General Plan | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 |
| Land Use | Open space | The preservation of open space is important to maintain important pristine mountain views, watershed systems, as well as important valley views and general rural character of the County. Open space includes agricultural lands as well as undeveloped hillsides and fields. Land use plans should result in decreased development pressure on threatened open space and agricultural areas. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-1 |
| Land Use | Productivity | achieve and maintain in perpetuity a high-level annual or regular periodic output of agricultural, mineral and various other resources from public lands in Tooele County | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-38 |
| Land Use | Productivity | are designed to produce and provide the desired vegetation for the watersheds, timber, food, fiber, livestock forage, and wildlife forage, and minerals that are necessary to meet present needs and future economic growth and community expansion in Tooele County without permanent impairment of the productivity of the land; | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-38 |
| Land Use | Productivity | meet the needs of economic development | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Land Use | Productivity | meet the needs of community development | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Land Use | Productivity | meet the needs of wildlife, provided wildlife populations are kept at a reasonable minimum so as to not interfere with originally permitted AUM levels under the Taylor Grazing Act; | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Land Use | Productivity | Multiple use and sustained-yield management principles shall be applied in public land use and natural resource planning and management in Tooele County | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 |
| Land Use | Productivity | support valid existing transportation, mineral, and grazing privileges in Tooele County at the highest reasonably sustainable levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-38 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Commercial development should be focused in specific areas in the unincorporated County as opposed to commercial strip development along highways and roadways. The types of commercial uses allowed in the unincorporated areas should be targeted to meet the specific needs of County residents or travelers, but should not be developed at the expense of existing commercial centers in incorporated towns and cities | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-1 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Limit densities in the unincorporated areas of the County. High-density development should occur only within incorporated cities or towns. Existing densely developed unincorporated areas should be encouraged to plan for future incorporation | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-1 |
| Livestock and Grazing | (A) Tooele County regards the land which comprises the grazing districts and allotments in the region as still more valuable for grazing than for any other use which might exclude livestock grazing. Such other uses include but are not limited to conversion of AUM?s to wildlife or wilderness uses. Accordingly, it is Tooele County?s plan that animal unit months in the Region not be relinquished or retired in favor of conservation, wildlife or other uses. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | (B) Tooele County recognizes that from time to time a bona fide livestock permittee in the Region, acting in good faith and not to circumvent the intent of the BLM?s grazing regulations, may temporarily cease grazing operations without losing his or her permitted AUM?s. However, BLM-imposed suspensions of use or other reductions in domestic livestock animal unit months in the region should be temporary and scientifically based on rangeland conditions. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | (C) The transfer of grazing animal unit months (?AUMs?) to wildlife for supposed reasons of rangeland health is opposed by Tooele County as illogical. There is already imputed in each AUM a reasonable amount of forage for the wildlife component. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | (D) Any grazing animal unit months that may have been reduced in the region due to rangeland health concerns should be restored to livestock when rangeland conditions improve, not converted to wildlife use. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Achieve and Maintain Livestock Grazing in the Proposed Wilderness Regions at the highest reasonably sustainable levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Mineral Resources | Achieve and Maintain a Continuing Yield of Energy and Mineral Resources in the Proposed Wilderness Regions at the highest levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | (C) Any segment of society, for that matter, that wants to recreate in the Regions, should have motorized access to that recreation if they desire it, as well as all other traditional forms of outdoor recreation they so desire, if such historical uses existed in the past. They should not have to hike into the outdoor recreational destinations in the region if they do not want to or are unable or cannot afford such an activity. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Recreational land uses and accesses to them (especially to Forest Service and BLM areas) should be supported by County maintenance of dirt roads and creation of trails and trail systems. The creation, development and administration of recreation areas and a recreation corridor, extending from the northern shore Stansbury Island south to the southern end of the County in the Rush Valley, Skull Valley, and West Desert planning districts, would support a wide variety of recreation uses and provide the County with tourism benefits. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-2. |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Tooele County will encourage and promote recreation uses and activities on public lands in a responsible manner. The County will work with agencies and private property owners to provide adequate public land and resource access, protect natural resources, and minimize impacts to private property. The County will also promote recreational opportunities and activities for individuals of all ages and physical ability. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-26 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | The County?s recreation/tourism promotion and marketing efforts will highlight the County?s unique natural landscape and diverse cultural/historical resources in a manner that complements other County objectives. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-27 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | (D) Tooele County?s strategy and plan for protecting the region watershed is to deter unauthorized cross-country OHV use in the Regions. The best way to achieve this is to give OHV users a reasonable system of roads and trails in the region on which to legitimately operate their OHVs. Closing the region to all OHV use will only spur increased unauthorized cross-country OHV use to the detriment of the Regions watershed. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Designated watershed protection areas should not be developed in order to preserve the hydrologic activity important for conserving the County?s valuable water resources. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-1 |
| Water Rights | provide for the protection of water rights and reasonable development of additional water rights; | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Water Rights | (A) All water resources that derive in the Regions are the property of the State of Utah. They are owned exclusively by the State in trust for its citizens. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Water Rights | (B) As a political subdivision of the State, Tooele County has a legitimate interest in seeing that all reasonable steps are taken to preserve, maintain and, where reasonable, as determined by Tooele County, develop those water resources. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Water Rights | (C) Where water resources in the Regions have diminished because once-existing grasses have succeeded to pinyon, juniper and other woody vegetation and associated biomass, a vigorous program of mechanical treatments should be applied to promptly remove this woody vegetation and biomass, stimulate the return of the grasses to historic levels, and thereby provide a watershed that maximizes water yield and water quality for livestock, wildlife, and human uses. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Water Rights | Manage the Watershed in the Proposed Wilderness Regions to achieve and maintain Water Resources at the highest reasonably sustainable levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-40 | |
| Water Rights | provide for the protection of water rights and reasonable development of additional water rights; | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Wetlands | Zoning in wetlands and floodways must be changed to reflect areas that are unsuitable for development. In cases of development in these areas, including road construction, impact studies and mitigation of any damage should be required. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-1 | |
| Wilderness | (B) Public land outdoor recreational access in the Regions should not discriminate in favor of one particular mode of recreation to the exclusion of others. Traditionally, outdoor recreational opportunities in the region have been open and accessible to working class families, to families with small children, to the sick and persons with disabilities, to the middle aged and elderly, to persons of different cultures for whom a ?primitive solitary hike? may not be the preferred form of recreating, and to the economically disadvantaged and underprivileged who lack the money and ability to take the time off work necessary to get outfitted for a multi-day ?primitive hike? to reach those destinations. All of society should not be forced to participate in a solitude experience? or a ?primitive experience? as the one and only, or primary, mode of outdoor recreation in the Regions. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 | |
| Wilderness | (C) Any segment of society, for that matter, that wants to recreate in the Regions, should have motorized access to that recreation if they desire it, as well as all other traditional forms of outdoor recreation they so desire, if such historical uses existed in the past. They should not have to hike into the outdoor recreational destinations in the region if they do not want to or are unable or cannot afford such an activity. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-41 | |
| Wilderness | 10. Managing Part or all of the non-WSA portion of the Proposed Wilderness Regions for ?wilderness? characteristics would violate FLPMA, Contradict the State?s Public Land Policy and Contradict the foregoing plans of Tooele. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-44 | |
| Wilderness | Achieve and Maintain a Continuing Yield of Energy and Mineral Resources in the Proposed Wilderness Regions at the highest levels | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Wilderness | No public lands in Tooele County, including none of the Proposed Wilderness Regions should be managed for so-called "wilderness characteristics." No public lands in Tooele County, including none of the Proposed Wilderness Regions should be managed as if they are or may become wilderness. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-39 | |
| Wilderness | The Nomination and or Designation of Public and Private Lands in the Proposed Wilderness Regions, selected for specific uses, may have permanent and unintended consequences on the Subject Lands and Surrounding Lands, and should be reviewed by the Board of Tooele County Commissioners. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | Chapter 19-45 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | To protect native wildlife, development which interferes with wildlife and their habitats should be avoided. Knowledge of wildlife and their habitats will aid in determining designations for appropriate locations and densities of development in those areas. | Tooele County General Plan, 2008 | III-2. |
| Agriculture | Land use | The county should continue to support agriculture and protect prime agriculture lands as the county grows. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 12 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Agricultural protection areas (APA) are one tool for ensuring protection of aquifer recharge zones and the preservation of agriculture as a way of life in the county. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 12 |
| Noxious weeds | Preventing small outbreaks of new weeds will continue to be the county?s highest priority. Addressing the problem before a larger outbreak occurs will save the county significant time and financial resources. In order to prevent such outbreaks, education programs and annual weed mapping are utilized to help the county identify and monitor noxious weeds. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Noxious weeds | Weed mapping should be kept up to date and include areas in the county that have not yet been included. GPS units, as well as workshops to assist private landowners with mapping their acreages, have been, and will continue to be, available for use. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | In order to mitigate the problem [of recreation impacts to public and private lands], the Tooele County Trails Committee focuses on all users and works to provide signage on designated trails in an effort to keep people from trespassing and using undesignated trails. The goals of the committee include developing recreation resources by promoting recreational uses and profit from tourism business while also protecting natural resources for continued use and providing for a variety of uses. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 10 |
| Wetlands | Overall, agricultural land use is more beneficial to wetland health and functionality than industrial and urban land use. Allowing only land uses that have minimal impacts to wetlands, such as rotational grazing on irrigated pastures, low-density rural developments, and single-family residential developments with a half an acre of native vegetation between houses, would be the best approach for preserving Tooele Valley?s wetlands. | Tooele County Resource Assessment | 12 | |
| 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 | |
| Fire Management | Suppression | All facilities, structures or developments that are susceptible to fire damage will receive intensive suppression. The primary objective with this level of suppression is to prevent loss of life, property, or unacceptable resource damage. All other public lands in the Resource Area will be considered conditional suppression. On these lands the intensity of suppression actions is not fixed and will vary with the conditions occurring at the time of start. These conditional suppression areas will be managed on a least cost plus resource loss basis. In these areas, the full spectrum of intensities is to be considered and the determination on which intensity level to initiate suppression is based on the conditions at the time. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fire Management | Suppression | All wildfires on public land will receive some level of suppression. The authorized officer has the responsibility to determine the intensity of the suppression effort to meet the overall protection objective to put the fire out with minimum suppression cost and minimal losses, consistent with management objectives. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Fire Management | Suppression | BLM will prepare vegetation modification plans for Skull Valley and Puddle Valley to reduce wildfire and attempt to stop or reverse the cheatgrass conversion cycle. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| 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 |