The Wasatch Front Regional Council’s area of service comprises Davis, Weber, Morgan, Salt Lake and Tooele Counties and the cities contained therein.
The WFRC commissioned the creation of these webpages to assist the five counties in preparing Resources Management Plans.
County Resource Emphasis
Top resources identified by counties for data gathering priority.
Each county ranked their top 5.
WFRC Plan Review Bibliography
WFRC Plan Review Bibliography
WFRC Plan Review Matrix
WFRC Plan Review Matrix
Download the Plan Review Table.
| Resource Category | Subcategory | Goals and Policies | Plan | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Improve public access on the Island. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Clearly define general access in terms of hours of (park) operation. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Minimize potential development actions to preserve the island?s solitude, openness and ruggedness. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Boost visitation and revenue. | Antelope Island AMP | 21 |
| Economic Considerations | Provide Adequate Staffing and Funding | Antelope Island RMP | 37 | |
| Energy Resources | Antelope Island | Investigate opportunities for renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, ground source heat pumps and partnering with university research groups. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Continue to implement the 2004 Access Management Plan, concentrating on minimizing wildlife/visitor conflicts through trail and facility design, and visitor education. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | Study the possible impacts on wildlife before opening the southern tip access road to hiking, biking and horseback riding as recommended in the 2004 Access Management Plan. Park biologists have suggested that these activities may cause wildlife, especially mule deer, to walk off the island (particularly at lower lake levels). | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Access | Antelope Island | The use of off-highway vehicles will be limited to park staff, cooperating researchers and others engaged in search and rescue actions, maintenance of trails and other facilities, wildlife and range management, public safety, natural and cultural resource research, and other park management related activities. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Develop and implement a plan that identifies appropriate areas and methods for reestablishing native tree and shrub communities to the island. | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | To promote continuity in resource and visitor management on the island, the Division should continue to pursue obtaining ownership of the BLM inholdings. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Identify levels of acceptable change or measures to determine when park management must act to reduce impacts to resources or visitor experiences, or to solve public safety or other problems. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Enforce the Board of the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation?s restriction on placing new communication towers, antennas or other structures on the island. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Antelope Island | Explore means of controlling civilian aircraft (including ultra lights, paragliders, and helicopters) use of airspace over the island when it presents hazards to visitors or harassment of wildlife. | Antelope Island RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Preserve the visual and aesthetic values of the park such as the concepts of solitude, openness and ruggedness. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Law Enforcement | Continue to support the trail patrol and their efforts to protect park resources and experiences. | Antelope Island RMP | 33 | |
| Mineral Resources | Antelope Island | The Division is opposed to exploration and development for mineral extraction within the park. | Antelope Island RMP | 34 |
| Noxious Weeds | Eradicate noxious and invasive species. | Antelope Island RMP | 32 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Promote better relations with the local community. | Antelope Island RMP | 21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Continue to develop relationships with businesses and community groups to support activities at the park. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Continue the strong marketing partnership with Davis Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Increase numbers of visitors in the shoulder seasons and winter by marketing the opportunities available (particularly wildlife viewing) during those times of year. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Complete a business plan that includes a marketing plan as a component. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | The Antelope Island Comprehensive Interpretive Plan and the Fielding Garr Ranch Interpretive and Site Plan should continue to be used to guide the staff toward reaching the park?s interpretive and educational goals and objectives. | Antelope Island RMP | 37 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Develop marketing campaigns and materials to attract people to the park from the Wasatch Front, as well as from outside the area, including international visitors. | Antelope Island RMP | 36 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Investigate controlling populations of no-see-ums (biting midges), and the effect of potential control efforts on other wildlife populations (involve the Great Salt Lake Project and the Division of Wildlife Resources in considering insect control methods and implications). | Antelope Island RMP | 33 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Use treatments such as occasional mowing, planting of desirable forage, and developing water sources to improve habitat and draw wildlife to locations easily viewed by visitors. | Antelope Island RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Develop ponds east of the ranch road for use by wildlife, and to offer visitors a short trail with interpretive opportunities (consider a boardwalk trail with interpretive signing). | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Ensure adequate water supply for current and future needs | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Develop ponds east of the ranch road for use by wildlife, and to offer visitors a short trail with interpretive opportunities (consider a boardwalk trail with interpretive signing). | Antelope Island RMP | 32 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Determine population management targets for mule deer. | Antelope Island RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Limited hunting may be allowed as a management tool for the health of wildlife populations and their habitats when other management control options have not been effective. | Antelope Island RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Sustain Antelope Island wildlife and habitats and to make contributions to wildlife science. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Help meet the needs of Utah?s consumptive users by exploring development of nursery programs to enhance big/upland game populations in other areas of the state. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Identify and implement policies to attain healthy, sustainable populations of diverse, native plant and animal communities for the non-consumptive beneficial use of the public. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Emphasize enhancement of watchable wildlife opportunities through the designation of appropriate areas and programs. | Antelope Island WMP | 5 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| 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 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. Coordinate efforts with the defensible space plans that the mountain resorts have adopted. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support acquisition and maintenance of open space areas through transfers-of-development rights and land purchase programs. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, zoning ordinances and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Expand and support the enforcement of existing regulations and requirements by recognizing and further defining the role and regulatory limits of all relevant federal, state, and local jurisdictions within the development review and planning process. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the all-year function and activities in the canyon including the [Canyon] resorts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the approved and updated Master Plans of the two mountain resorts in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Projects that will take place on USFS land and that have been through the USFS approval process should be recognized. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize the SLCPU Watershed Plan, US Forest Service Plan, and all other relevant adopted plans, and work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different jurisdictions. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support development which incorporates open space design, such as clustered housing and transfer of development rights projects, where appropriate. The development of a TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) Ordinance and the identification of sending and receiving zones should be undertaken. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the dark-sky character and aesthetic of the canyon through the development of night-time lighting ordinances that also recognize and allow night-time recreation initiatives at the mountain resorts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the establishment of underlying base zones that are consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan and that mesh with uses that are desirable, realistic, and practical within a given area. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Consider new, growing and evolving recreational uses in order to deal with changing impacts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Install interpretive signs on trails to foster stewardship and appreciation of canyon history and resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with land managers, private landowners, resorts, and trails organizations to develop more technical mountain bike specific trails | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Create a funding mechanism to assist in maintaining the recreation facilities and amenities provided in the canyon and that assists in the purchase of available properties for open space purposes. The spirit of this mechanism would be to fund the ongoing recreation operations, including but not limited to trail maintenance, restroom maintenance, recreation sites, education and interpretation of the canyon?s resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support the creation of restroom facilities and parking areas at trailheads, including backcountry trailheads, and popular climbing areas to support the growing recreational uses in Big Cottonwood Canyon. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support additional commercial and recreational uses and parking in the base areas of the mountain resorts to accommodate the needs of visitors and canyon users and to concentrate these commercial uses where adequate infrastructure and services exist. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Support mountain resort viability to provide for increasing numbers of visitors and a diversity of uses and user groups as allowed within the limits and requirements of the current regulatory processes. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support the US Forest Service Wasatch Water Legacy Trails Action Plan. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. Coordinate efforts with the defensible space plans that the mountain resorts have adopted. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| 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 | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| 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 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Incorporate the river's natural and cultural history into designs for riverfront features, public art, education, and signage | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Establish buffers between the river and the built environment | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Preserve and rehabilitate natural river features and functions | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Apply design standards for complementary development and redevelopment in the corridor to support increased visibility and recreational use of the river | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage regional transportation planning to connect communities to the (Jordan) river corridor, emphasizing non-automobile travel | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Riparian Areas | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Balance needs for development, recreation, and public access with river protection | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Replace structural water conveyance devices with alternatives that allow for flood management plus improvements for water quality, recreation, and habitat | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Manage stormwater on site | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Reduce the use of hardscapes and impermeable surfaces in and near the (Jordan River) corridor | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| 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 | Maintain viable [greater sage-grouse] populations within each SGMA. | 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 |
| Agriculture | Water quality | Mitigate any potential for soil erosion from agricultural uses and prevent soils from entering streams. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Air Quality | Health | Provide land use alternatives and utilize technologies to protect the general health of all county residents from vehicular and home heating emissions. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Programs | Continue to advocate programs such as carpooling, voluntary no burn days, emission testing, etc., that help to reduce pollution. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Limit airborne particulates by mitigating man-made disturbances along with requiring dust control measures and revegetation for all development and grading projects. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Transportation | Assess all new development requests for opportunities to integrate the use of alternative modes of transportation, including bus, rail, car pool, bike and pedestrian. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Transportation | Coordinate with Wasatch Front Regional Council, Utah Transit Authority and other transportation organizations to assure that land-use and transportation decisions will improve regional air quality. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Accomplish goals and have effective communication by exploring partnerships. Convey the importance of the historical character and sense of place within the community, to Salt Lake County, and Kennecott through consistent, periodic communication. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Apply for status as a Certified Local Government. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Consider local and community environmental objectives in regional transportation planning. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Educate residents through the historic preservation committee by holding workshops on rehabilitation, financial incentives, and other information. Establish a clearinghouse of information on preservation, loans, grants, construction and renovation, and landscaping. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Establish a historic preservation committee to oversee the preservation ordinance and to educate, advocate, and provide assistance in historic preservation efforts. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Strengthen Copperton?s sense of place by exploring partnerships to achieve community projects. Create amenities such as planting street trees, and installing thematic street lighting that supports and strengthens Historic Copperton?s residential areas. Designate and improve the gateway to the Copperton Historic District to create a pleasant experience at the key entry point. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Create a local historic preservation ordinance. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Create design guidelines and encourage their use in the rehabilitation of historic buildings and design of new construction within the historic core so that it is in harmony with the historic character of Copperton. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Explore implementation of conservation zoning within the historic town center. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Update the boundaries created in the 1986 National Register nomination. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| 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 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Management strategies within the study area should include management and maintenance of vegetation and fire breaks, as well as public education, to mitigate some of the wildfire hazards. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 28 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Preserve adequate access to streams for open space, wildlife habitat areas, and flood-control maintenance. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Protect life and property from the increased risk of flooding through application of stream setbacks, FEMA flood zone requirements and careful review of development along streams and at the mouths of drainages. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Protect and enhance vegetation along all natural drainages to stabilize and slow the erosion process and protect the water body. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Erosion | Stabilize all areas disturbed by grading or excavation as quickly as possible to reduce erosion potential. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Erosion | Ensure that grading and excavation disturbances associated with development do not accelerate erosion. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Develop, maintain and regularly update emergency plans for earthquake response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Ensure that all citizens have access to information regarding emergency preparedness and response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Ensure that land use activities do not increase the risk from geologic hazards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Fit development to the existing terrain, to prevent or reduce all adverse impacts in hazardous areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect life and property by prohibiting development on slopes greater than 30%. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require new development within hillside areas of the community to comply with the requirements of the Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone and the Foothills and Canyons Site Development and Design Standards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require site-specific geologic assessment and engineering prior to construction in known geologic and seismic hazard areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Ensure that levels of contaminants in soil meet current standards for development. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Productivity | Continue to allow the productive dry farming operations on Kennecott reserve properties to help provide a large open space buffer, maintain the productive use of these lands and insure security. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 |
| Mining | Encourage the continued open dialogue and cooperation between Kennecott Land Company (the land development arm of Kennecott Utah Copper) and the community so that issues and concerns between the company and the community can be worked out. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Insure that high impact areas provide sufficient noise buffers to reduce impacts on residential areas, especially along the south and west side of the community. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Minimize the adverse impacts of the mine on adjacent uses by maintaining adequate landscape buffer areas, screening and visual appearance of buildings. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Participate with Kennecott Land and The Nature Conservancy of Utah or other conservancy organizations to help in the planning of future projects, preserve the Oquirrh Mountains ecosystem, and develop strategies to conserve resources and land. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Recognize Copperton?s unique relationship with Kennecott Utah Copper and the mining heritage of the area. Encourage productive industrial development to continue in appropriate places. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Work with Salt Lake County and Utah Economic Development Divisions and Kennecott to encourage satellite businesses that Kennecott does business with to develop facilities in the Copperton area to better serve the company and community needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Establish public and private partnerships to provide the necessary parks and recreation investments anticipated as development proposals on the vast Kennecott Utah Copper properties are solidified. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Provide the necessary funding for acquisition and construction of new parks, trailheads, recreation facilities, and open space through general tax, bonds, federal, state, and county funding sources, and other means, consistent with the County?s budget needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Place a priority on locating neighborhood parks in conjunction with school sites and civic facilities. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Develop parks in accordance to the design standards and policies identified in the Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Encourage community, public and private organizations to support the development, maintenance, and operation of existing and future recreational facilities. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Promote the development of community gardens in locations that can benefit residents, are conducive to agriculture, and will maintain compatibility with surrounding uses. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Provide parks, open space, trails systems and recreational facilities for Copperton Township residents; offer safe and efficient recreation programs and activities that meet needs and desires. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Periodically review demographic projections and land use plans in order to anticipate future recreation and facilities and program service needs and strive to meet or exceed the recreational standards established in the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop multiple-use trails in accordance to the standards and policies identified in the Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide neighborhood trail and bicycle connections to transit stops, arterial streets, commercial areas, schools, civic centers, and other user-specific destinations. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Pursue the development of a ?Rails to Trails? program in order to provide multiple-use trails along abandoned or vacated rail corridors. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Work to provide multi-functional ?grade-separated crossings? such as bridges, roadway underpasses and other means at selected locations for pedestrians and bicyclists. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Work with the surrounding communities of the region to ensure pedestrian trail and bicycle route connectivity across jurisdictional lines. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Accommodate the needs of equestrian enthusiasts by providing a trail system and connections to the foothill and mountain areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Apply best practice methods to ensure that water resources are not depleted. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Encourage future developments to utilize alternative sources of water for non-culinary applications. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Encourage the use of native vegetation and also low water vegetation in residential and commercial developments. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Maintain and improve water quality as development occurs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Minimize the polluting effects from all development activities through sensitive site design and available technologies. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Restrict development where soil conditions might pose problems to foundations or could impact groundwater quality. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Incorporate planning and design solutions for all future development proposals to preserve, protect and/or improve wildlife habitats within the mapped ?Critical? and ?High Value Winter Range? areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Protect critical wildlife habitats and historic movement corridors needed for wildlife nesting, calving, wintering and breeding. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Protect, maintain and where possible enhance wildlife access to stream channels, other water features and riparian habitats. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Increase public awareness of Copperton?s abundant and varied wildlife populations and their habitat needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent isolated pockets of development | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent/limit damage in foothill areas | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect viewsheds | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Mining | Discourage new gravel pits, mitigate effects of existing gravel pits | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Preserve existing parks | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Improve recognition of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Increase trailheads and public access points | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Reasonably accommodate OHV users | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protect watershed areas | Davis County Comprehensive Hillside Master Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Access | Maintain right-of-way access, irrigation access | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Minimum acreage for agricultural viability | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Require developers to provide fence between agricultural areas and development (encourage municipalities to adopt such ordinances) | Davis County General Plan | 8 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Limit development to municipalities/incorporated areas | Davis County General Plan | 3 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent/limit additional development of foothill areas | Davis County General Plan | 3 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Encourage municipalities to adopt ordinances preventing stormwater runoff from flowing into irrigation ditches | Davis County General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Encourage municipalities to participate with Davis County in a storm water drainage system and management program. | Davis County General Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Land use | The preservation of agricultural lands and agricultural sustainability go hand-in-hand. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Sustainable agriculture has numerous elements, but the ultimate goal is to keep land in production now and into the future. Steps to bring in-creased profits and provide sound stewardship of the air, water, and soil, as well as improved quality of life for farming communities, are needed. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Ditches and Canals | Funding sources for water delivery systems to make post break repairs, perform maintenance, or make capital upgrades are too few and inadequate to address the need. Irrigation and ditch companies also carry expensive insurance that does not always come through in times of need. These costs are often unavoidable and are ultimately paid for by the end users. It would be extremely beneficial for both agricultural and M&I users if funding mechanisms were in place that could be easily applied for and implemented. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 6 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Canals are often used for unauthorized recreation. This is both a safety and a liability issue. Canals are not meant for recreation, but it inevitably happens. The canal companies are forced to implement security measures and carry insurance coverage, further adding to the high price of water. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Agricultural users are often negatively impacted during peak residential irrigation hours as the water level in the system drops. When this occurs, farmers, especially those at the end of the ditch, miss water turns on their crops. When farmers miss their water turns, the local food supply can be significantly stressed and damaged; therefore, a balance needs to be established. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and Canals | Not all secondary systems are metered, and those that are do not always receive accurate metering. Dependable metering could reduce residential overwatering and improve the dependability of the agricultural supply. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to keep potential [invasive and noxious weeds] out of the county. Once a noxious or invasive weed is established, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Land managers should strive to keep potential invaders out and ensure that newly detected weeds be treated before they become prolific. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Small, contained populations of noxious and invasive weeds that are detected early have a high probability of being effectively managed. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Eliminating weeds before they cause damage to the landscape will save the county from losing biological resources and lessen the financial burden it takes to maintain these weeds once they have spread out of control. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Urban encroachment | When land is developed, it is important to ensure that water continues to be delivered to the agricultural users. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Storm water, tail water, and effluent water must be properly managed and comply with Utah State Water Law under Utah Code, Title 73. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Urban development can introduce storm water and pollution into irrigation infra-structure. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Agricultural water users need to maximize their irrigation efficiency by implementing the most water efficient irrigation technology. These projects are costly and often require grants and loans to implement. Likewise, M&I users need to implement both indoor and outdoor water conservation measures to ensure that all the water in the county is being put to the best use. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | It is important that conservation measures in the county be maximized in order to stretch the limited water supply and to avoid, if possible, costly water projects. | Davis County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 1: No development is desired west of the Legacy Parkway Corridor, except for a small portion of land on the Woods Cross 5th South interchange. This land does not appear to have any development limitation. It is recommended that some of the lands to the south of the interchange on the west side of The Legacy Parkway be used in some form of recreational use. The lands north of the interchange along the west side frontage road are generally unsuitable for development. The road is the only access for trucks traveling to the landfill. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 16 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 2A: No development is desired west of the Legacy Parkway south of Centerville. In Centerville, from approximately Parrish Lane north to Glovers Lane in Farmington, the D&RG Rail Corridor becomes the western edge of development. Northward from Glovers Lane, the FEMA Flood Line becomes the western edge of development. Existing farmland that is located west of the no build line is an appropriate use for the area. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 17 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 2B: There should be no development west of the FEMA Flood Line within the study area. Much of the land west of the proposed Legacy Highway in the most northern parts of this map is already preserved as open space as part of The Nature Conservancy?s Management Area. Pockets of land west of the highway corridor are proposed as possible sites for mitigating future phases of the Legacy Highway in the area. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood line and housing development. Higher density housing and commercial uses should only be allowed east of rural cluster housing. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 3A: No development is allowed west of The FEMA Flood Line throughout this area. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood Line and housing. Much of the land surrounding the North Davis sewer treatment plant is already preserved as agricultural land by the sewer district. Only rural cluster housing should be planned to occur next to agricultural lands. Higher density housing and commercial zones should only be allowed east of this land use. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 19 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Region 3B: No development is desired west of the FEMA Flood Line. Current farming practices are an appropriate use for these lands. An agricultural buffer should be maintained between the FEMA Flood line and housing developments. Only conservation development housing should be allowed adjacent to the agricultural buffer. Higher density housing and commercial development should only be allowed east of conservation development housing. | Davis County Shorelands Comprehensive Land Use Master Plan | 20 |
| Land Access | Planning | Access to open spaces, wildlife habitats, and natural areas will be preserved | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide a system of interconnecting and looping trails | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Trails to provide alternate transportation routes including bicycle commuters | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Trails will have different levels of development and accessibility for users of all abilities. | Davis County Trails Master Plan | 2 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Guidelines for the use of renewable sources of energy should be developed and adopted. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Development will be adapted to the existing terrain in order to protect public health and safety and to minimize risks from known geologic and other hazards. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Coordinate with applicable agencies to enforce regulations that minimize the impacts of development and prevent damage to natural systems and sensitive lands. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Land use and development patterns that incorporate nature into the built environment and increase public awareness and responsibility toward the natural environment will be pursued. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Significant vistas and landscapes that have special visual and aesthetic qualities will be preserved and maintained. Important view corridors and open areas in the canyon will be maintained through sensitive site and building design. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Native landscaping suited to the canyon environment will be encouraged to make efficient use of water resources. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The community?s groundwater supply must be protected from significant depletion or hazardous contamination. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Human interference into critical wildlife habitat areas will be minimized, including discouraging the feeding of wildlife. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Critical and historic wildlife movement corridors will be protected, and, where possible enhanced by access to water features and riparian habitats. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| 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 |
| Agriculture | Animal management | Animal husbandry operations are buffered from adjoining uses, where necessary, to mitigate smell, insects, and | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Development is limited to that necessary to the agricultural operations on the site. Permitted agricultural retail commercial activities (fruit stands, etc.) take up no more than 10% of the open space area. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Alternative energy resources can provide substantial and reliable energy supplies. | Kearns Township General Plan | 86 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | An energy plan ensures that energy efficiency is included in all aspects of design and construction in new development as well as revitalization projects. | Kearns Township General Plan | 79 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Because buildings use one third of all energy consumed in the US and two thirds of all electricity (DOE 1997), using ?green? building design can have a major impact on the amount of energy a community consumes. | Kearns Township General Plan | 81 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Communities need to adopt strategies and programs targeted toward infrastructure that reduces energy consumption. | Kearns Township General Plan | 81 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all the processes associated with production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery. Embodied energy for a project may be minimized by the following: a) Use local resources (within 500 miles), whose energy consumption is lower than for transported materials. b) Conserve and restore old buildings. c) Reuse old building materials: The reuse of building materials commonly saves about 95% of embodied energy. d) Use recycled products: The use of recycled products may lower embodied energy if reprocessing and transportation energy consumption is low. | Kearns Township General Plan | 80 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Encourage community and regional participation in resource conservation programs in order to reduce demand for water, sewer, solid waste, road, and energy facilities, thereby reducing the need for costly future facility investment. | Kearns Township General Plan | 8 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Public transportation provides energy efficient travel for large numbers of people. | Kearns Township General Plan | 85 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Assemble an energy advisory committee to develop an overview of issues and recommendations with respect to community energy-use patterns and transportation. | Kearns Township General Plan | 172 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Financial budgets of a community are one of the primary limitations to implementing a community energy plan. . . . Financial support is available through many different organizations including agencies from state government. | Kearns Township General Plan | 78 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Other innovative policies to include in an energy plan relate to user fees, alternative energy production, and regional cooperation. | Kearns Township General Plan | 77 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | People provided with facts on energy sustainability have a better understanding of energy-related issues and are more likely to become part of the solution. | Kearns Township General Plan | 78 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Population growth and transportation should parallel in a sustainable energy planned community. ...it is necessary to form a sub-committee of the Energy Task Force (ETF) to address energy efficiency specific to transportation. This sub-committee should recommend strategies for sustainability and automobile reductions for their community. The Transportation ETF can also suggest a variety of transportation choices that reduce dependence on unpredictable petroleum sources. | Kearns Township General Plan | 83 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Sustainable communities use road and parking lot design strategies that reduce VMT and environmental impact. | Kearns Township General Plan | 84 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Utah communities can join the nation?s leaders in sustainability by implementing progressive zoning and building energy codes. | Kearns Township General Plan | 77 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Public acquisition efforts focus on sites that are at risk for development for other than recreation uses. | Kearns Township General Plan | 142 |
| Land Use | Open space | Natural Open Space: Grading and vegetation removal is limited to that necessary for flood control, invasive species control, and construction of passive recreational facilities like trails and paths. Paving is disallowed, unless necessary for trailhead parking, hardened trails, and similar purposes. If utilities are allowed in natural open space, all facilities are placed underground. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Open space | Development standards for recreational open space are driven by the objectives of the community?s parks and recreation plan. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Concentrate development in nodes in canyon areas to reduce the impact on sensitive areas. | Kearns Township General Plan | 49 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Preserve canyon accessibility through corridor design. | Kearns Township General Plan | 51 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Use an existing park facilities assessment and public input to develop community-specific park standards and determine capital needs for future facilities. | Kearns Township General Plan | 11 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Park development should coordinate with existing and planned trail networks, improving regional and community connectivity through trails, greenway connections, and paths. | Kearns Township General Plan | 142 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Minimize water use in buildings and for landscape irrigation to reduce the impact to natural water resources and reduce the burden on municipal water supply and wastewater systems. | Kearns Township General Plan | 8 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Develop, maintain and regularly update emergency plans for wildfire response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Ensure that fire response to foothills residential development meets Salt Lake County Fire Department standards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, zoning ordinances and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize and support the roles of the SLCPU Watershed Plan, US Forest Service Plan, Town of Alta General Plan and all other relevant adopted plans and regulations. Work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different jurisdictions. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support development which incorporates open-space design, such as clustered housing and transfer of development rights projects, where appropriate. The development of a TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) Ordinance and the identification of sending and receiving zones should be undertaken. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the dark-sky character and aesthetic of the canyon through the development of night-time lighting ordinances that also recognize and acknowledge night-time recreation initiatives at the mountain resorts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the establishment of base zones that are consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan and that mesh with uses that are desirable, realistic, and practical within a given area. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the all-year function and activities in the canyon including the [Canyon] resorts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the approved and updated Master Plans of the two mountain resorts in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Projects that will take place on USFS land and that have been through the USFS approval process should be recognized. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Create a funding mechanism to assist in maintaining the recreation facilities and amenities provided in the canyon and that assists in the purchase of available properties for open space purposes. The spirit of this mechanism would be to fund the ongoing recreation operations, including but not limited to trail maintenance, restroom maintenance, recreation sites, education and interpretation of the canyon?s resources. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with land managers, private landowners, resorts, and trails organizations to develop more technical mountain bike specific trails | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Continue to support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Support mountain resort viability to provide for increasing numbers of visitors and a diversity of uses and user groups as allowed within the limits and requirements of the current regulatory processes. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Increase enforcement of illegal activities such as illegal bike trails that are cut for the purposes of downhill biking and off -trail cycling. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support partnerships for the development of a system of off -highway bicycle paths to reduce user conflicts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support the US Forest Service Wasatch Water Legacy Trails Action Plan. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Consider new, growing and evolving recreational uses in order to deal with changing impacts | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support additional commercial and recreational uses and parking in the base areas of the mountain resorts to accommodate the needs of visitors and canyon users. The purpose would be to concentrate these commercial uses where adequate infrastructure and services exist. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support the creation of restroom facilities and parking areas at trailheads, including backcountry trailheads, and popular climbing areas to support the growing recreational uses in Little Cottonwood Canyon. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Animal management | Animal husbandry operations are buffered from adjoining uses, where necessary, to mitigate smell, insects, and | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Development is limited to that necessary to the agricultural operations on the site. Permitted agricultural retail commercial activities (fruit stands, etc.) take up no more than 10% of the open space area. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Alternative energy resources can provide substantial and reliable energy supplies. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | An energy plan ensures that energy efficiency is included in all aspects of design and construction in new development as well as revitalization projects. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Assemble an energy advisory committee to develop an overview of issues and recommendations with respect to community energy-use patterns and transportation. | Magna Township General Plan | 172 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Because buildings use one third of all energy consumed in the US and two thirds of all electricity (DOE 1997), using ?green? building design can have a major impact on the amount of energy a community consumes. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Communities need to adopt strategies and programs targeted toward infrastructure that reduces energy consumption. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Energy efficient communities inherently generate less air polluting particulates and gases than energy inefficient communities. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Sustainable energy strategies benefit a community because they save money. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all the processes associated with production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Financial budgets of a community are one of the primary limitations to implementing a community energy plan. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Other innovative policies to include in an energy plan relate to user fees, alternative energy production, and regional cooperation. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | People provided with facts on energy sustainability have a better understanding of energy-related issues and are more likely to become part of the solution. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Population growth and transportation should parallel in a sustainable energy planned community. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Public transportation provides energy efficient travel for large numbers of people. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Utah communities can join the nation?s leaders in sustainability by implementing progressive zoning and building energy codes. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Land Use | Open space | Development standards for recreational open space are driven by the objectives of the community?s parks and recreation plan. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Open space | Natural Open Space: Grading and vegetation removal is limited to that necessary for flood control, invasive species control, and construction of passive recreational facilities like trails and paths. Paving is disallowed, unless necessary for trailhead parking, hardened trails, and similar purposes. If utilities are allowed in natural open space, all facilities are placed underground. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Public acquisition efforts focus on sites that are at risk for development for other than recreation uses. | Magna Township General Plan | 142 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Park development should coordinate with existing and planned trail networks, improving regional and community connectivity through trails, greenway connections, and paths. | Magna Township General Plan | 142 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Minimize water use in buildings and for landscape irrigation to reduce the impact to natural water resources and reduce the burden on municipal water supply and wastewater systems. | Magna Township General Plan | 174 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Promote the use of renewable sources of energy, and encourage recycling and clean waste disposal methods in order to reduce the overall ecological footprint of the township and its residents. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Geology | Erosion | Use effective and efficient landscaping and grading to prevent soil erosion and slippage, and encourage responsible use of water resources. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Reduce the risk of public and private property damage and injury from geological hazards and seismic activity. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Create land use and development patterns that integrate natural areas and resources into the built environment and increase public awareness and responsibility towards the natural environment. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Ensure that new developments preserve and sustain the function of natural systems and environments such as waterways, wetlands etc. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect valuable environmental resources along the foothills, as well as throughout the township, such as natural areas, watersheds and water bodies which contribute to the quality of life in Millcreek. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Ensure that new developments preserve and sustain the function of natural systems and environments such as waterways, wetlands etc. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Protect valuable environmental resources along the foothills, as well as throughout the township, such as natural areas, watersheds and water bodies which contribute to the quality of life in Millcreek. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Use effective and efficient landscaping and grading to prevent soil erosion and slippage, and encourage responsible use of water resources. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Support the viability of agricultural operations as a means of long-term maintenance of working open spaces. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage intergovernmental cooperation in cultural resources management. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage property owners to conduct cultural resource surveys on significantly sized projects, or projects which are located in proximity to areas identified as having cultural resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage the conservation, restoration, and preservation of those properties already listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Work with owners of properties with significant cultural resources to identify alternative funding sources to avoid, reduce, or mitigate impacts on the resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Compile a list of significant Morgan County cultural resources and encourage the protection of significant concentrations of archaeological, historical, and other cultural resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Conserve cultural resources within Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Identify appropriate treatment measures to be taken when significant prehistoric or historic sites, buildings, structures, and objects may be adversely affected. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Seek adaptive uses as an alternative to demolishing or significantly altering historic structures. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Implement development standards such as a mitigation measures matrix, access standards, defensible space, non-combustible roofs, sprinklers, clear space, proper firewood storage, and other measures in areas prone to wildfire. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Provide emergency and secondary access in all urban/wildland interface areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Include the appropriate fire district and municipal fire agencies in the review of development proposals and assist the fire districts and municipal fire agencies in communicating their concerns to developers. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Limit, through the rezoning process, the increase in housing density (a) outside fire districts, (b) in the Wildland?-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, and (c) in areas where roadways are substandard. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Reduce the threat of wildfire in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas through thinning/ fuel break projects. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Regularly update each Counties Wildfire Management Plan. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Discourage increased densities in designated floodplains. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Protect property and residents from natural hazards, including flooding and other flood events, seismic events, landslides, rock fall, or subsidence. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Require the avoidance or mitigation of environmental hazards such as flooding, landslides, and subsidence or fissure zones as part of the development review process. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Development proposed in geologically hazardous areas or on steep slopes should be avoided or, if allowed, done in a manner that poses little or no hazard to life, health or property. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect property and residents from natural hazards, including flooding and other flood events, seismic events, landslides, rock fall, or subsidence. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require the avoidance or mitigation of environmental hazards such as flooding, landslides, and subsidence or fissure zones as part of the development review process. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require utility providers to strengthen, relocate, or take other appropriate measures to safeguard pipelines, transmission lines, and other utility infrastructure in areas subject to elevated natural hazard risk. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Land Use | Open space | Adopt an open space plan that identifies prime lands for conservation and develops strategies for the acquisition and long-term maintenance of these lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Develop a system of natural open space areas that protect and conserve natural, physical, and social resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Explore implementation of flexible zoning techniques that promote open space preservation. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Identify, protect and conserve high value wildlife habitat and recreational open space areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Improve the quality, quantity and design of open space, park lands and trails. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Adopt regulations for development in environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Consider conserving contiguous open space on lands that are environmentally sensitive due to geological instability, steep slopes, floodplains, watersheds, and habitat areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Consider providing incentives for landowners to preserve and protect environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage density transitions to separate rural from urbanized areas and to buffer preserve areas from urbanized areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage density transitions to separate rural from urbanized areas and to buffer preserve areas from urbanized areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage the use of conservation easements which are supported by the landowner(s). | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Explore the implementation of flexible zoning techniques that protect environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote ecologically responsible development patterns within Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote the protection of important natural resources through collaboration in acquiring, managing, and interpreting natural areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect the health, safety, and welfare of Morgan County residents by directing growth away from hazardous areas and sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Seek opportunities for easements, dedications, joint?-use agreements, or other appropriate methods with other public agencies, jurisdictions, and private property owners. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Adopt outside lighting standards to reduce light pollution and protect the Morgan County night sky. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect scenic vistas by discouraging development on ridgelines and high-?visibility areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Provide and protect existing and future access to the Weber River and public lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Support private land managers, management agencies, and citizen groups in their efforts to coordinate planning and maintenance of recreational opportunities that minimize adverse impacts to natural systems and residential areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Develop guidelines to meet the parkland and facility demands for neighborhood and community parks created by new development. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Require developers to meet the parkland and facility demands for neighborhood and community parks created by new development through impact fees and master planned communities. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Adopt a Parks, Recreation and Trails master plan. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Develop standards and development criteria for integration of park land, open space and trails into new residential development. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Develop standards for construction and maintenance of parks and trails to ensure long term usability. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Encourage the development of increased year?round recreational opportunities. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop a safe, multi-?use trail system that provides connectivity throughout the County and to recreational areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop paved and unpaved trail standards for village and rural environments. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Encourage and promote the benefits of volunteer labor and material donations for trail development and maintenance. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for a safe separation of non-?motorized and motorized trail networks and corridors. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for a wide range of non-?motorized and motorized trail uses including hiking, equestrian, mountain biking, and off?-highway vehicles. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for multi use path and trail corridors for connectivity throughout the County. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for public access to all trails by coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies and private developers to ensure that appropriate public trail connections and access points are planned, constructed, and maintained. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Preserve, protect, or conserve natural watercourses, water bodies, and drainage systems. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Develop a watershed management plan that protects the County?s key contributing areas to promote water quality and conservation. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Wetlands | Identify the significant natural watercourses, water bodies, and drainages and develop County regulations to manage development near such features to protect their natural function and fluctuation. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Identify, protect and conserve high value wildlife habitat and recreational open space areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Minimize the fragmentation of wildlife habitat and support efforts to maintain or restore connectivity among habitats. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Due to the importance of high quality soil types in the Porterville/Richville area include "Right to Farm" provisions in the Land Use Management Code to protect existing prime agricultural operations and provide incentives for the continued production of prime agricultural lands. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Air Quality | Agriculture | Farming in the community helps purify the air naturally by producing carbon credits from certain crops such as corn, barley, wheat, etc. Agricultural interests in the Porterville/Richville area should be protected to enhance air quality. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Development shall not contribute significantly to the degradation of air quality in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Morgan County should establish an ongoing air quality monitoring program and actively implement corrective strategies, which might include appropriate regulations on fireplaces and other similar measures, if required to maintain acceptable air quality standards. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Require developments and subdivisions in the Wildland?Urban Interface (WUI) to provide forest stewardship, fuels mitigation plans, and property maintenance covenants that incorporate the principles of defensible and survivable space along with reduced potential for home ignition. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Update and tailor the WUI code to meet the needs of Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Adequate buffers from development should be provided along all waterways and wetlands in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Base densities for dwelling units and present zone designations should not be changed or increased in existing floodplain areas in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Promote open space in designated flood zones unless the hazard can be adequately mitigated. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Promote rural, open space, and agricultural uses in designated flood zones unless the hazard can be adequately mitigated. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Richville/Porterville discourages development or construction in a floodplain or whenever it will significantly alter the natural drainage patterns of the land. Development in a floodplain shall specifically comply with all applicable Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Forest management | Products | Adopt standards for logging on private land that minimize the adverse impacts of the operations on soil erosion, sedimentation, and other reasonable concerns following the policies of the National Forest Service regarding extracting of timber in the Western Region. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Manage development, minimize damage and hazards, and protect life and property in areas subject to risk from natural hazards such as seismic activity, unstable soils, flooding conditions, and other geologic hazards in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Morgan County should develop hillside-grading standards, by ordinance, to minimize the hazards of erosion and slope failure. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Morgan County should require all new and remodeled structures to meet or exceed International Building Code (IBC) earthquake resistant design standards. Morgan County may also consider adopting other portions of the IBC in addition to those for earthquake design and more specifically consider adopting Appendix Chapter 33 "Excavation and Grading" and Chapter 18 "Foundations and Retaining Walls". | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development in the Porterville/Richville area on lands which, based on reliable evidence, is found to be unsuitable for the development due to unstable soil conditions. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development on lands which, based on reliable evidence, is found to be unsuitable for the development due to unstable soil conditions, that have or can result in existing or potential slope instability, or have evidence of snow avalanche history. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development or construction on any natural slope that is 25 percent or greater and require engineering measures to reduce the slope instability hazard potential and risk. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect life and property by managed development in unstable soils. (Appendix: 1997 Porterville/Richville Master Plan) | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Review development proposals located in or immediately adjacent to areas of soil instability, liquefaction areas, and steep slopes to provide geotechnical studies, determine if a significant constraint exists relative to these various issues and to determine appropriate land use and structural design. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Require that soils containing toxic or hazardous substances be cleaned up to the satisfaction of the agency having jurisdiction prior to development or redevelopment. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | All development in areas where existing vegetation stands are predominant shall retain the maximum amount of existing vegetation on a site. Areas that shall remain undisturbed shall be designated before construction on any site containing sensitive lands and vegetation. The edge of disturbance areas shall be made to look as natural as possible. Straight-line removal of vegetation is discouraged. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | All development in areas where existing vegetation stands are predominant shall retain the maximum amount of existing vegetation on a site. Areas that shall remain undisturbed shall be designated before construction on any site containing sensitive lands and vegetation. The edge of disturbance areas shall be made to look as natural as possible. Straight-line removal of vegetation is discouraged. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Maintain a rural look and atmosphere in the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Place a high priority on the preservation of the natural beauty that surrounds and exists through the Richville/Porterville area in reviewing any future development for approval. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Preserve open space in and around the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the pristine mountain and valley area for the residents of the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the quietness and pristine life in the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Strongly discourage any development on mountain hill sides and ridge lines that allows a structure to protrude into the skyline, as viewed from all public roadways by establishing a provision in the Land Use Management Code regulating the placement of any structure in these sensitive areas. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Morgan County should work with all public land managers and residents of Morgan County to identify appropriate access points to public lands that should be protected or encouraged and develop strategies for providing and maintaining such access points on a long-term basis, while protecting private property rights. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Preserve and create appropriate motorized and nonmotorized access to public lands in conjunction with public land managers and major development projects. The intention is not to require property owners who live adjacent to public lands to provide public access, rather only in areas that are appropriate for access while protecting private property rights. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Legal non-conforming lots shall meet minimum standards for septic and water and be developed in a manner which is sensitive to the land. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Morgan County should aggressively enforce any violations of County environmental health policies related to inadequate septic systems in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Morgan County wishes to work with the stakeholders involved with East Canyon so that the water quality can be returned to its former levels including the East Canyon Creek Watershed Committee. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Prohibit sewage and other waste disposal systems from discharging into any stream or waterway in the Porterville/Richville area. Current controlled discharge from the East Canyon Resort should be closely monitored by the Weber/Morgan Environmental Health Department and other state and federal agencies. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Protect water quality and ensure that there are adequate quantities of water for all users in Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The Morgan Soil Conservation, in conjunction with the State of Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, conducts a annual study of the well and culinary water quality each year in the Morgan area and has findings of high levels of nitrates, coliform, and ecoli in the Porterville/Richville area in some private wells. These levels need to be watched and taken into consideration for future use of the land. (Appendix: State of Utah Ground Water Program) | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The Morgan-Weber County Health Department shall conduct percolation tests and determine probable worst case, on-site and off-site impacts of septic system development and prescribe mitigation requirements which shall be incorporated into a development prior to the issuance of a building permit. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Development should not be permitted which will adversely affect the quality and/or accessibility of the water resources in the area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Development that accelerates the erosion of soil, and thereby contributes significantly to the stream sedimentation, will require special review and mitigation to the satisfaction of Morgan County. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | It is a recommendation that a central community culinary water system or several small systems be studied and developed for the residences in the Richville/Porterville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | No new development should be approved without providing the evidence of "wet" water (not paper water). | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Wetlands | Morgan County should require the protection of all wetlands, streams and other waterways and other environmentally sensitive lands from construction impacts and runoff from parking lots, roads and other impervious surfaces. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 | |
| Wetlands | Prohibit any development in moderate or high quality wetlands, unless appropriate mitigation is approved by the jurisdictional governmental agencies. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 | |
| Wetlands | Richville/Porterville should work with the Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Resource Conservation Service to establish "Special Area Management Plans" within Richville/Porterville as a means to proactively work toward the protection of important wetland resources, and to establish mitigation strategies for unavoidable impacts. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Limit development in or near wildlife winter ranges, wildlife birthing areas, eagle nesting areas, fisheries, or migration corridors. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Sustainable agriculture has numerous elements, but the ultimate goal is to keep land in production now and into the future. Steps to bring in-creased profits and provide sound stewardship of the air, water, and soil, as well as improved quality of life for farming communities, are needed. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | The preservation of agricultural lands and agricultural sustainability go hand-in-hand. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Ditches and canals | Current funding programs are inadequate for dealing with the magnitude of canal improvements needed. They have strict limitations and are not set up in a way that is practical. It would be extremely beneficial for both agricultural and M&I users if funding mechanisms were in place that could be easily applied for and implemented. It would enable delivery system companies to improve and upgrade their infrastructure before a catastrophe or break occurs. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 6 | |
| Ditches and canals | Canals are often used for unauthorized recreation. This is both a safety and a liability issue. Canals are not meant for recreation, but it inevitably happens. The canal companies are forced to implement security measures and carry insurance coverage, further adding to the high price of water. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Fisheries | Habitat | To effectively manage Bonneville cutthroat trout in Utah, biologists must continue to conserve and restore remaining habitat, remove nonnative trout that compete with native cutthroats, and discontinue the stocking of fertile nonnative fishes where Bonneville cutthroat occur. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 13 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Proper forest management is encouraged to reduce risks from threats such as beetles, wildfire, and aspen declines. Proper management may include timber harvest, thinnings, regeneration, and fuels reductions. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 12 |
| Livestock and Grazing | Rangeland concerns can be remedied utilizing rangeland management techniques such as rotational grazing systems, brush management to reduce canopy cover of cedar, integrated pest management, and range planting in areas of heavy infestation of noxious plants. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 12 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to keep potential [invasive and noxious weeds] out of the county. Once a noxious or invasive weed is established, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Noxious weeds | Small, contained populations of noxious and invasive weeds that are detected early have a high probability of being effectively managed. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Noxious weeds | Eliminating weeds before they cause damage to the landscape will save the county from losing biological resources and less-en the financial burden it takes to maintain these weeds once they have spread out of control. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | When land is developed, many of the issues above can be minimized if storm water, tailwater, and effluent water are properly managed and comply with Utah State Water Law under Utah Code, Title 73. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Urban development can introduce storm water and pollution into irrigation infra-structure. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Agricultural water users need to maximize their irrigation efficiency by implementing the most water efficient irrigation technology. These projects are costly and often require grants and loans to implement. Likewise, M&I users need to implement both indoor and outdoor water conservation measures to ensure that all the water in the county is being put to the best use. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Protect and improve air quality for protection of public health, environmental health, and scenic visibility. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Economic Considerations | Maximize the financial resources available to reinvest in improving and protecting Central Wasatch assets. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 | |
| Economic Considerations | Improve quality of life for residents. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 | |
| Fisheries | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Access | Planning | The Central Wasatch transportation system is integrated within the fabric of community values and lifestyle choices, supports land use objectives, and connects to the overall regional network. We meet the growing demand for access to and within the Central Wasatch Mountains through a dynamic and sustainable multi-modal mountain transportation system that provides year-round transportation choices to residents, visitors and employees, improves safety and efficiency, and is compatible with the unique environmental characteristics of the Central Wasatch. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Provide integrated multimodal transportation choices for residents, visitors, and employees. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Ensure the transportation experience is reliable and facilitates a positive experience. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Ensure the transportation experience is safe and promotes health. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | The transportation system supports the natural and intrinsic values of the Central Wasatch. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Pursue the most appropriate and feasible means of securing legal public access to critical recreational opportunities while mitigating conflicts on privately-owned lands | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Establish appropriate levels of access and designed settings in harmony with the desired recreation experience. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Preserve additional lands to avoid loss of critical conservation values, and restore existing degraded lands | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Mitigate the severity of climate change and develop adaptive capacity to reduce vulnerabilities to local climate change impacts | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Economic considerations | Develop legal, regulatory, financial and integrated governance structures that provide long-term and sustainable support for achieving the environment system goals. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Economic considerations | Establish an organization, with authority to act based on public support, that fosters long-term success of the Central Wasatch recreation system by promoting collaborative and united management, user education, and acquisition of ongoing funding for continued system maintenance, evolution, and management | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | The recreation system in the Central Wasatch is balanced, sustainable, and provides a range of settings that accommodates increasing demand for year-round outdoor recreation opportunities while protecting solitude, naturalness, and other backcountry values by encouraging stewardship and high levels of use at thoughtfully designed locations with convenient access. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Preserve special, unique recreation areas and settings to maintain opportunities for solitude and naturalness. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | By 2040, the Central Wasatch Mountains achieve a balance of broadly shared economic growth, high-quality development and high-value transportation infrastructure that is attractive, sustainable, and provides opportunity for visitors and residents. The Central Wasatch brand is clearly differentiated as high quality, convenient, and unique in the world, with diverse use and access options. Prioritized protection of natural and scenic resources ensures that quality of life and quality of experience are enhanced over the long term. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Improve the quality of experience for residents and visitors. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Identify and establish high use areas to focus where future growth in recreation occurs. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Grow the year-round, destination-based travel, tourism, and recreation economy. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide a well-designed, appropriately maintained, well-signed, and interconnected trail network that meets demand and can adapt to evolving uses. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Riparian Areas | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protect, maintain and improve watershed health, water supply, and water quality. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Wetlands | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Wetlands | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Coordinate minimum fire safety standards between the local fire districts and wildland fire district to ensure consistent fire safety standards in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Encourage conservation easements, transfer of development rights, and cluster subdivisions | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 15 |
| Land Use | Open space | Cluster residential housing developments to provide open spaces and greenbelt between developed areas | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 19 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage conservation easements, transfer of development rights, and cluster subdivisions | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prevent/limit damage in foothill areas | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 27 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Prohibit development of sensitive lands, including wetlands, floodplains, steep slopes, critical habitat, wildlife corridors, high water marks (water bodies) | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 15 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Facilitate the ongoing maintenance and expansion of existing recreational facilities and amenities to keep pace with increasing demand. | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 44 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop a Valley-wide pathway and trail network with pathways that connect individual neighborhoods or subdivisions to the greater active transportation network. | Ogden Valley General Plan 2015 | 45 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Incorporate subdivision standards and development requirements in the Land Use Management Code that minimize the impact of developing in remote and environmentally sensitive parts of the Porterville/Richville area, including requirements for water supply for firefighting purposes, measures for clearing brush and vegetation from the area around the structure, access, infrastructure standards, and other appropriate regulations in high, moderate, and low fire hazard areas. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Require the implementation of Firewise and best practices at shooting ranges to lessen the dangers of activities causing wildfires. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Forest management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Expand and support the enforcement of existing regulations and requirements by recognizing and further defining the role and regulatory limits of federal, state, and local jurisdictions within the development review and planning process. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize the SLCPU Watershed Plan, Forest Service Plan and all other adopted plans, and work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different agencies. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Private property above the dam site in Dell Canyon and from Parleys Summit to Lambs Canyon should be publicly acquired. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support the private property acquisition goals identified in the Open Space, Recreation and Trails section, and the preservation of open spaces through conservation easements. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Open Space | Support land acquisitions identifi ed by the Salt Lake County Open Space Trust Fund Acquisition Plan and develop open space management plans that preserve view sheds, wildlife habitats, recreation opportunities, historically significant areas, etc. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Balance recreation uses with natural resource protection and adjacent residential uses. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, ordinances, and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures that respect private property rights and access. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage and support efforts to plan for future uses that could be accommodated at the gravel pit when resource extraction activities cease. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage development that is suitable to the area and regulate the size of allowed residential units and maximum site disturbance. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Identify and enforce current gravel pit boundaries. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Support the development of funding mechanisms to support the creation, implementation, and ongoing operations of naturalized open space management plans and recreational facilities. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Recognize and support maintenance and expansion of diverse year-round recreational opportunities where they are appropriate and can be accommodated given land, infrastructure, and long term funding constraints. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Install interpretive signs on trails to foster stewardship and appreciation of canyon history and resources. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Facilitate opportunities for trail user groups to contribute to trail maintenance and improvements. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, address illegal trails, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with appropriate land managers, private landowners, and trails organizations to develop mountain bike specific trails. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support development of a comprehensive trails master plan by the USFS and others. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support development of the Parley Canyon Trail Plan and other canyon connectors. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Coordinate with user groups to identify and improve access to climbing areas in the lower canyon. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Maintain existing shooting ranges. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management activity in Parleys Canyon in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources to maintain ecosystem balance. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| 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 | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Promote public education and awareness of wildfire prevention and protection. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Create outreach and assist homeowners with identifying grant sources and programs for implementing defensible space on priavte property. | National Fire Plan Community Assistance Program | 9 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Increase public understanding and support of the active use of fire to improve watershed and habitat conditions and reduce fuels. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Reduce hazardous fuels (prescribed fire, silvicultural and mechanical treatments) with emphasis on interface communities (wildland/urban) and increase proactive participation of communities at risk. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Restore or maintain fire-adapted ecosystems (consistent with land uses, historic fire regimes, and other Forest Plan direction) through wildland fire use, prescribed fire, timber harvest or mechanical treatments. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain and/or restore tall forb communities to mid seral or potential natural community (PNC) status. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore as mature and old age classes 40% of total conifer and 30% of total aspen cover types, well distributed across the landscape. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore species composition, such that the species that occupy any given site are predominantly native species in the kind and amount that were historically distributed across the landscapes. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Forest Management | Products | Use timber harvest where allowed, to contribute to the economy while achieving properly functioning conditions of vegetation and watersheds. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Land Access | Planning | Acquire access and rights-of-way for general public and administrative use. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Minimize the addition of special use encumbered areas of National Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Efforts will be made to obtain right-of-ways for public access to the National Forest. Existing right-of ways will be maintained. A priority for right-of-ways will be the linkages to community trails along the front. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-135 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Regional trails, such as the Great Western Trail and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail will be recognized and valued as unique opportunities to develop recreation corridors across multiple ownerships in the face of expanding development across potential trail corridors. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-160 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Ogden area in cooperation with the cities of North Ogden, Pleasant View and Willard. Needed access and rights of way will be maintained or acquired to complete the Bonneville Shoreline trail along the Wasatch Front. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-146 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Use | Utility corridors | Utilize currently designated utility corridors fully for power transmission lines of 66kV or greater and oil and gas pipelines 10? or greater. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Recognize and manage for the importance of scenic forest landscapes to overall recreation settings as well as to the quality of life for communities adjacent to the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Restore, maintain or enhance landscape scenic integrity across the variety of landscape character themes found on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Law Enforcement | Increase Forest Service field presence in key areas, improve effectiveness of public information on restrictions, and increase participation of individuals and organized groups in monitoring uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Manage livestock grazing levels and operations on suitable lands for sustainable forage use within properly functioning conditions. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Greatly reduce known infestations of noxious weeds and rigorously prevent their introduction and/or spread. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Improve Forest user?s awareness of what noxious weeds are and how they spread and increase Forest users? active participation in reducing and preventing infestations. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Involve Forest users in developing strategies for managing recreation to meet desired future conditions and address recreation pressures and demands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Increase Forest recreation user stewardship of resources and strengthen awareness of user ethics for reducing resource and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Encourage private enterprise to develop recreational facilities on and off the Forest that provide for a range of recreation opportunities (e.g. camping and picnicking areas, trailheads, and interpretive sites). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Manage for an array of recreation opportunities and settings to improve the quality of life for a variety of Forest recreation users. Balance growth and expansion of recreation by managing within the capability of sustainable ecosystems found on the Forest for today and the future. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Use ski area associated private and public developed recreation facilities to provide world-class skiing and mountain resort opportunities while contributing to the economy. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Acquire lands or easements needed to facilitate Bonneville Shoreline and Great Western Trails development. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Manage trails to provide desired recreation opportunities for recreation users and to meet Forest Service standards. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage recreation use of undeveloped areas on the forest to provide for desirable opportunities while preventing or reducing resource impacts and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage uses of new recreational technologies to provide for opportunities while preventing or minimizing negative social and/or resource impacts on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Work closely with city, county, state and tribal governments to provide for integrated, coordinated development and management (including enforcement) of OHV activities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Maintain pollinators and minimize impacts to pollinators or their habitats. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Improve Forest users? understanding of the values of and potential human impacts to biodiversity and viability of species. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Increase understanding of and support research on the distribution, ecology, and threats to plant species at risk, nonvascular plants and rare plant communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain or restore viability of populations of species at risk, Watch List Plants, and rare communities | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain viability of species-at-risk (including endangered, threatened and sensitive species and unique communities). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Manage Forest Service sensitive species to prevent them from being classified as threatened or endangered and where possible provide for delisting as sensitive (FSM 2670). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or improve water quality to provide stable and productive riparian and aquatic ecosystems. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore overall watershed health (proper functioning of physical, biological and chemical conditions). Provide for long term soil productivity. Watershed health should be addressed across administrative and political boundaries. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore stream channel integrity, channel processes, and sediment regimes (timing, volume, character of sediment input/transport) under which riparian & aquatic ecosystems developed. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain water in streams, lakes, and wetlands of adequate quantity and quality to provide for instream flows and existing downstream uses including support of healthy riparian & aquatic habitats, stability & effective function of stream channels, ability to route flood discharges, and to maintain recreation opportunities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Protect waters meeting or surpassing State water quality standards by planning and designing land management activities to protect water quality. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Design and implement watershed management programs and plans that will restore water quality and watershed function to support beneficial uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Maintain and/or restore soil productivity to improve watershed functioning through managing ground cover, soil compaction, and vegetation. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Identify [watershed] areas not in properly functioning condition. Improve plant species composition, ground cover and age class diversity in these areas. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wilderness | Manage Wildernesses recognizing differences in population proximity and consequent role in providing wilderness experiences for more people. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Evaluate areas with potential for Research Natural Area designation including Ben Lomond Peak (tall forb values), western portion of the Deseret Peak Wilderness (Great Basin community types and cryptogamic crusts). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide adequate habitat components for sustainable big game populations coordinated with State wildlife management agencies, private lands and other resource needs and priorities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide suitable habitat for prey species such as hares, squirrels, and small mammals. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Ultimately, the preservation of agricultural lands requires stewardship of the air, water, and soil. Most agricultural producers want to continue farming, but are concerned about the future of their profession and family operations. Protecting farmland is important to the future of Salt Lake County, as well as to the beneficiaries of the county?s agricultural lands. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Air quality | Standards | Promote efforts to improve air quality such as the Choose Clean Air program, residential wood burning control, Utah Clean Fuels Program, and urban forestry. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 10 |
| Noxious weeds | All land managers in Salt Lake County should focus on Integrated Weed Management (IWM). IWM is based on the principal that by using the most appropriate tool from the toolbox, weed control will be more effective. Tools can include mechanical control (removal), biocontrol, cultural control, and chemical control methods. Early detection of new weeds allows for a quicker suppression. Land managers should strive to keep potential invaders out and ensure that newly detected weeds are treated before they become prolific. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protecting headwater resources is a critical component of preserving overall watershed health. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Water quality in the Salt Lake Countywide Watershed can be improved with appropriate forest management, as well as reducing pollutant loads sufficient to support aquatic habitat, water supply, and social functions, including recreation. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| 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 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Appropriate easements and restrictive covenants can also be used to provide a cohesive community with well-planned transitions between new residential lots and existing animal/agricultural land uses. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 6 |
| Geology | Erosion | Avoid excessive grading on the hillsides. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Geology | Erosion | Prominent ridgelines and sensitive slopes should be protected. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 2 |
| Land Use | Open space | While provision of land for churches, schools, and civic buildings is important, such land should not qualify as ?open space.? True ?open space? in the form of parks, trails, and natural areas should also be a priority. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 2 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Avoid excessive grading on the hillsides. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Locate local serving utility lines underground. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the natural environment and inherent beauty of the area. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate and plan the design of roads, trails, and open space to be sensitive to wildlife. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Strong and Diversified Economy?We recognize outdoor recreation, tourism and outdoor-related businesses as key pillars of Utah?s growing and diversified economy, and promote them along with other important economic sectors. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Education?We recognize the value of outdoor activities in the development of children and youth, and through education and hands-on experience, encourage their active participation. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Quality of Life?Utah?s natural beauty and outdoor opportunities enhance our rich quality of life, promoting health, adventure, community connections, and personal well-being. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Heritage?Outdoor recreation is a significant part of Utah?s culture and heritage which we want to protect and pass on to future generations. We will sustain and enhance recreational opportunities and heritage sites. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Healthy Landscapes?The health and quality of our wildlife, land, air, and water are the foundations of a sound recreational infrastructure. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Long-Term Perspective; Timely Action?Decisions about outdoor recreation will affect our lands and livelihoods for generations. We make those decisions with a long-term view of impacts to communities, health, the environment, and Utah?s economy. As our population continues to grow, the demand for both development and outdoor recreation will increase. Decisions are best made thoughtfully before pressures and conflicts intensify. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Innovation? Our recreation industries, policy-makers, participants and managers continually innovate to offer quality outdoor experiences, overcome current conflicts, and embrace new outdoor activities. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Good Information?We base our decisions on sound data and share good information with the public to promote safe and rewarding recreational experiences. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Diverse Opportunities?Outdoor recreation takes many forms, from backyard to backcountry. We provide opportunities and appropriate places for the full spectrum of recreational activities, interests, and abilities, including those that involve little or no cost to enjoy. We support responsible access to our recreational amenities. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Balanced Solutions? Utah accommodates a spectrum of activities, while recognizing that not all are compatible in the same location. When conflicts arise, we pursue practical, lasting, win-win solutions in an atmosphere of open communication, broad participation, and respect. | State of Utah Outdoor Recreation Vision | 5 |
| 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 | Preparedness | Management strategies within the study area should include management and maintenance of vegetation and fire breaks, as well as public education, to mitigate some of the wildfire hazards. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 28 |
| 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 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Enhance air quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Promote conservation of energy. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Open space | Encourage conservation of open space and irreplaceable natural resources in land use decisions. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote conservation of regionally significant critical lands. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect and enhance the natural environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Enhance the aesthetic beauty of our built environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Create and enhance access to areas of natural beauty and recreation. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Encourage community trails coordinated with regional/state trail systems. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Promote conservation of water [and] enhance water quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Noxious weeds | Established noxious weed infestations are not increasing or are reduced to low densities. New invader species are not becoming established. New infestations of species are contained or reduced. New populations of existing noxious weeds are eradicated or reduced in highly susceptible, often disturbed areas. Native plants dominate most landscapes that have been rehabilitated. | Wasatch-Cache National Forest Noxious Weed Treatment Program:DEIS | 1/15/2016 | |
| Agriculture | Land use | The preservation of agricultural lands and agricultural sustainability go hand-in-hand. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Sustainable agriculture can have numerous goals and facets, but it ultimately strives to bring increased profits, sound stewardship of air, water, and soil, and improved quality of life to farming communities. Most agricultural producers want to continue farming but are concerned about the future of their profession and family operations. Sustainable agriculture is a priority concern because of the important role of agriculture in Weber County?s economy, healthy lands, and way of life. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Air quality | Standards | Promote efforts to improve air quality such as the Choose Clean Air program, residential wood burning control, and the Utah Clean Fuels Program. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 11 |
| Ditches and canals | Current funding programs are inadequate for dealing with the magnitude of canal improvements needed. They have strict limitations and are not set up in a way that is practical. It would be extremely beneficial for both agricultural and M&I users if funding mechanisms were in place that could be easily applied for and implemented. It would enable deliv-ery system companies to improve and upgrade their infrastructure before a catastrophe or break occurs. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 6 | |
| Ditches and canals | Canals are often used for unauthorized recreation. This is both a safety and a liability issue. Canals are not meant for recreation, but it inevitably happens. The canal companies are forced to implement security measures and carry insurance coverage, further adding to the high price of water. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and canals | Agricultural users are often negatively impacted during peak residential irrigation hours because the water level in the system drops due to insufficient water. When this occurs, farmers, especially those at the end of the ditch, miss water turns on their crops. When farmers miss their turns, the local food supply can be significantly stressed and damaged; therefore, a balance of residential use needs to be established to allow end of ditch users to get their water. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Ditches and canals | Canal companies are typically forced to borrow money and raise assessments in order to pay back the loans needed to perform maintenance. This results in raised assessments that threaten agricultural sustainability. Ideally, all who benefit, including the urban population that is supplied water through the canal companies, would share the maintenance and repair burden. This may help systems run at maximum efficiency and provide the most value and benefit to the community. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to keep potential [invasive weeds] out of the county. Once a noxious or invasive weed is established, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | Land managers should strive to keep potential invaders out and ensure that newly detected weeds are treated before they become prolific. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to remain vigilant and treat [invasive weeds] before they become too widespread. Eliminating them before they cause damage to the landscape will save the county from losing biological resources and lessen the financial burden it takes to control these weeds once they spread out of control. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 8 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | When land is developed, many of the [water quality] issues can be minimized if storm water, tail water, and effluent water are properly managed and comply with Utah State Water Law under Utah Code, Title 73. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Water is critical for agriculture that provides a significant food supply to Weber County and its surrounding area. Agricultural water users need to maximize their irrigation efficiency by implementing the most water efficient irrigation technology. These projects are costly and often require grants and loans to implement. Likewise, M&I users need to implement both indoor and outdoor water conservation measures to ensure all the water in the county is being put to the best use. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | There is not enough supplemental water in Weber County to support the expected population increase. Future options of importing water into the county from the Bear River and Flaming George Reservoir, as well as aquifer recharge projects, are being explored. These options are extremely costly and will significantly raise the price of water for all users. It is important that conservation measures in the county be maximized in order to stretch the limited water supply and to avoid, if possible, costly water projects. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The Watershed Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS), created in 2003 by the Weber River Watershed Coalition, outlines nine goals and 29 necessary steps to meet these goals. The outcome of this WRAS should be the cooperation of many stakeholders to implement controls and procedures that insure that this watershed meets clean water standards. This will take commitment by local governments, landowners, and public users. Success will depend on the participation and cooperation of all involved in this critical watershed. | Weber County Resource Assessment | 10 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Encourage property owners who are engaged in agricultural production and business to expand agricultural protection areas whenever possible, and encourage additional property owners to commit their property to agricultural protection. | West Central Weber County General Plan | 2-16 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | The Weber River floodplain, wetland areas associated with the meander corridor, and streamside vegetation should be protected from development. A setback of 100? from the high water line on either side of the river, as determined by the County Engineer, is recommended. | West Central Weber County General Plan | 4-4 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage farmers to sell development density to developers interested in developing at higher densities near developing sewer infrastructure. | West Central Weber County General Plan | 2-16 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | The existing wildlife and waterfowl management areas are zoned S-1 and remain unchanged. | West Central Weber County General Plan | 2-16 |
| 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 |
| Land Access | Planning | Closure, reconstruction, and restoration of trails within the study area (Yellow Fork and Rose Canyon). | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 34 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Both the Yellow Fork Canyon and Lower Butterfield Canyon parking areas and trailheads are the highest priorities for funding and implementation. New gates and associated fencing will likely be required at both locations to prevent motorized access to the upper portions of both roads. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Maintenance of study area lands will focus on maintaining healthy native vegetation communities, stabilizing soils in disturbed areas, minimizing disturbance related to recreational activities, and reducing noxious weed infestations. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 27 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | As opportunities arise and funding becomes available, the County should work towards the acquisition of key properties with its partners. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 29 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | (Salt Lake) County should also consider the transfer of study area BLM lands to County ownership in order to consolidate and simplify management activities as opportunities arise or as requested. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 29 |
| Law Enforcement | With increases in the local population and more interest in public uses within the study area, there will be an even greater need for rules and regulation enforcement to provide for public enjoyment of the study area and to ensure public safety. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 31 | |
| Fire Management | Suppression | Establish landscaped fire breaks for all newly constructed and existing foothills structures. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Create water efficient landscaping standards in population centers. Consider secondary water systems and methods to incentivize water reuse systems. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Water Rights | As agricultural lands are permanently conserved, make water rights to accommodate continued farming or ranching a condition of conservation transactions. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Land Use | When real estate development projects are proposed, require an impacts analysis. A basic impact or cost revenue analysis can provide a systematic comparison of two money flows: (1) the amount of revenue a development is likely to contribute into a local treasury over time, and (2) the cost of services that a local government is likely to provide to that development over time. This sort of analysis enables decision makers to understand the likely long-term impacts to the public, both in terms of revenue and of cost. Indicators may include anticipated property tax revenue, anticipated sales tax revenue, roadway maintenance and replacement costs, water and sewer system maintenance and replacement costs, and water consumption. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Land Use | Create a comprehensive open space data set. Identify and compile or create data layers that can inform conservation and development decisions. The layers can provide a basis for impact analysis when development is proposed and for identifying potential conservation purposes when permanent conservation is proposed. The data may also inform the development of an open space and trails master plan. | Envision Morgan | 16 | |
| Land Use | Adopt/update a sensitive lands overlay zone to restrict development on critical lands, based on select information in the open space data set. | Envision Morgan | 16 | |
| Agriculture | Adopt policy to reduce conflicts between agricultural land uses and residential uses. Agricultural lands are an important part of Morgan. Incorporate design strategies into planning documents to help those wishing to continue agricultural pursuits. Special attention will need to be given to the edges between population centers and agricultural land. Buffering, concentrating more intensive development inward, and education strategies to improve awareness of agricultural needs may be a part of this equation. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Explore options for a tax or bond to purchase either development rights or the outright purchase of land for conservation purposes. Even a relatively small local financial commitment can enable a community to leverage funds that are available through state, federal or other agencies for conservation. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Consider establishing a purchase of development rights (PDR) program. PDR enables development rights to be purchased and retired. The buyer is likely a third party conservation-minded entity instead of a developer. This tool is often used along with a tool that generates revenue to be used for conservation, such as a tax or bond. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Adopt policy encouraging conservation easements. Conservation easements are a cornerstone of land protection programs. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Adopt/update code-based design guidelines. Conservation subdivisions or clustering allows landowners to develop at full density while working around features that make good candidates for conservation. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Explore fee in lieu options. When a developer submits a request to develop at a density higher than permitted, a fee could be imposed in exchange for a density increase, which could be reserved for the preservation of open land. Since it is triggered by a request for higher density, it is not considered an impact fee. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Implement a transfer of development rights (TDR) program. | Envision Morgan | 27 | |
| Land Use | Adopt needed incentives. Incentives can provide motivation to grow in preferred locations and patterns. Bonus residential density or increases in floor area ratios on commercial projects may provide the incentive needed for landowners and developers to use land conserving tools like TDR. | Envision Morgan | ||
| Recreation | Create an open space, recreation and trails master plan that identifies longterm goals for a future public open lands network. | Envision Morgan | 32 | |
| Recreation | Conservation easements should be placed on lands that are a part of the public open space network, to ensure its permanent conservation. | Envision Morgan | 32 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Reduce pollutant loads to improve water quality in the Salt Lake Countywide Watershed sufficient to support aquatic habitat, water supply and social functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Develop regional wastewater planning procedure requirements to enhance, improve and protect water quality functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Evaluate and prioritize the effects of Utah Lake outflow and diversion canals on water quality and flow by developing optimized management protocols, that will enhance and protect water quality, habitat and hydrologic functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Improve and protect wetlands and stream bank stability to prevent degradation from erosion and sediment transport to protect water quality, habitat, and hydrologic functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Increase stream corridor and watershed recharge area preservation to improve habitat, social, recreational and water use functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Increase instream flows under normal and drought conditions to support aquatic habitat and recreational functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Identify funding mechanisms for plan update, long-term watershed monitoring, and ongoing adaptive management. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| 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 |