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This project enhances Utah’s Wildlife Action Plan to where it serves as a strategic guide for planning and action by all land-and resource-management agencies, non-profit organizations and private groups with a stake in conserving Utah’s wildlife or their habitats.

Primary motivations:

Conservation Mission

Primary goals:

Our goal is to enhance Utah’s Wildlife Action Plan to make it a more strategic, guiding document for conservation of the state’s wildlife and their habitats.

Progress:

We have completed the project's first phase, the identification of conservation “Action Areas” -- a set of locations that collectively contains “enough” occurrences of priority wildlife habitats and species in the state. The second phase of fine-scale Conservation Action Planning is underway with partners in five Action Area locations.

Consistent with plans:

Species Recovery Plan

Nature Conservancy Ecoregional Plan

Conservation Plan

State Wildlife Action Plan

Targeted habitats:

• Aquatic
  • Lakes and Ponds
  • Rivers and Streams
• Forests and Woodlands
  • Mixed Hardwoods and Conifer
• Shrublands and Grasslands
  • Grasslands
  • Shrublands and Steppe
• Wetlands and Riparian Habitats
  • Lowland Riparian Forests and Shrublands
  • Marshes, Bogs and Emergent Wetlands
  • Montane Riparian Forests and Shrublands

Targeted species were not provided for this project.

Is the success of this project's actions being monitored?   No/Unknown

What lessons have been learned and/or what suggestions do you have for similar activities?

In lieu of providing abbreviated "sound bites" here, we suggest reviewing the various progress reports that should be accessible under the Project Documents heading in this project record.