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Nevada Partners for Conservation and Development (NPCD)

and Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative

(WRI or UtahPCD)

What the PCDs are and are not

– Not new planning efforts – Act as implementation arm for existing planning efforts

– Not intended to disrupt ongoing agency or other entities’ restoration work – Add value and expand scope on existing projects

– Provide connection between GB*** and on-the-ground – Research opportunities

– Additional intentions: • Facilitate diverse coalition building • Initiate new project work • Aid in pre and post-treatment monitoring

• Vegetation, game, non-game, birds • Implement projects that address scale of problem

– Why has UtahPCD been successful? – Treated > 1,200,000 acres to date – Diverse partnerships

• ALL stakeholders including adversarial groups • Local working groups

– Projects of various size and purpose • Scale of projects addresses scale of problem

– Cross boundaries • Weeds and fire pay no attention to arbitrary

boundaries – Funding

• Agency project dollars maximized • State legislature support on annual basis • Leverage funding 2:1 up to 5:1 match

– Trust amongst the participants

UtahPCD as Case Study

How is UtahPCD addressing the scale of the problems?

Northern

26 projects

19,336 acres

$1,405,028

Central

22 projects

16,044 acres

$2,021,157

Northeastern

24 projects

12,195 acres

$1,318,359

Southeastern

28 projects

12,881 acres

$2,947,426

Southern

53 projects

52,127 acres

$5,588,059

State-wide

9 projects

$585,932

• Soil types and contours • Fire History • Current condition of veg • Recent land management • Game and non-game wildlife • Sensitive or listed species

• Sage grouse habitat and telemetry

• Cultural sites • Potential partners and funding

sources: NRCS, Private, BLM, NDOW, CVCC, NBU

Restoration Implementation:

Pine Nut Mountains

Nevada Partners for Conservation and Development

Lee Turner

[email protected]

775-688-1542

Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI aka UtahPCD)

Rory Reynolds

[email protected]

801-538-4876