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Matt Warner WMA Fencing
Region: Northeastern
ID: 7567
Project Status: Cancelled
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Need for Project
The Matt Warner WMA provides valuable big game habitat as well as a quality fishery for the public. The perimeter of the WMA is surrounded by private property. The fencing along this perimeter is decades old and is past the point of maintenance and needs to be completely replaced. Heavy snowpack, poor initial design, wildlife/livestock damage, and overall age have contributed to the decline of this fence to the point that it needs a complete redesign and replacement.
Provide evidence about the nature of the problem and the need to address it. Identify the significance of the problem using a variety of data sources. For example, if a habitat restoration project is being proposed to benefit greater sage-grouse, describe the existing plant community characteristics that limit habitat value for greater sage-grouse and identify the changes needed for habitat improvement.
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Objectives
Objective is to hire a private contractor through a competitive bid to remove and reconstruct 17,600 feet of pipe fencing that uses a wildlife friendly design.
Provide an overall goal for the project and then provide clear, specific and measurable objectives (outcomes) to be accomplished by the proposed actions. If possible, tie to one or more of the public benefits UWRI is providing.
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Project Location/Timing Justification (Why Here? Why Now?)
Livestock trespass has become uncontrollable on the WMA due to the current poor state of the fence and volume of livestock pressuring the WMA. The trespass use has reached to point that both vegetation and aquatic resources are not providing the benefit to fish and wildlife on the WMA that could be possible. Public use of the WMA is also negatively impacted.
LOCATION: Justify the proposed location of this project over other areas, include publicly scrutinized planning/recovery documents that list this area as a priority, remote sensing modeling that show this area is a good candidate for restoration, wildlife migration information and other data that help justify this project's location.
TIMING: Justify why this project should be implemented at this time. For example, Is the project area at risk of crossing an ecological or other threshold wherein future restoration would become more difficult, cost prohibitive, or even impossible.
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Relation to Management Plans
Matt Warner WMA Habitat Management Plan: Protect the existing habitat from deterioration. Maintain public access for hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing. Control livestock trespass, maintain fences.
List management plans where this project will address an objective or strategy in the plan. Describe how the project area overlaps the objective or strategy in the plan and the relevance of the project to the successful implementation of those plans. It is best to provide this information in a list format with the description immediately following the plan objective or strategy.
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Fire/Fuels
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If applicable, detail how the proposed project will significantly reduce the risk of fuel loading and/or continuity of hazardous fuels including the use of fire-wise species in re-seeding operations. Describe the value of any features being protected by reducing the risk of fire. Values may include; communities at risk, permanent infrastructure, municipal watersheds, campgrounds, critical wildlife habitat, etc. Include the size of the area where fuels are being reduced and the distance from the feature(s) at risk.
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Water Quality/Quantity
The soil at Matt Warner WMA is naturally high in Phosphate and other nutrients. Hoof shear around the reservoir caused by trespass livestock results in erosion of soil into the reservoir, significantly increasing nutrient levels in the reservoir. Animal waste from the trespass livestock also contributes to an increase in nutrient levels. As the water temperatures warm in late spring/early summer, toxic High Algae Blooms negatively impact the fishery as well as anglers that utilize the WMA.
Describe how the project has the potential to improve water quality and/or increase water quantity, both over the short and long term. Address run-off, erosion, soil infiltration, and flooding, if applicable.
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Compliance
The majority of the fence will be replaced along the existing fence line, and will not require arch clearance. One minor stretch along a neighboring line has recently been moved about 50 feet, requiring arch clearance that can be achieved with UDWR staff. All of the fence is solely on UDWR lands and does not require NEPA.
Description of efforts, both completed and planned, to bring the proposed action into compliance with any and all cultural resource, NEPA, ESA, etc. requirements. If compliance is not required enter "not applicable" and explain why not it is not required.
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Methods
A contractor will be hired through a competitive bid process. The contractor will remove the old fencing and replace with a wildlife friendly design made from pipe. The pipe design will require far less maintenance than the existing fence and last much longer.
Describe the actions, activities, tasks to be implemented as part of the proposed project; how these activities will be carried out, equipment to be used, when, and by whom.
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Monitoring
UDWR staff will monitor for maintenance needs as well as possible livestock trespass from other areas around the WMA.
Describe plans to monitor for project success and achievement of stated objectives. Include details on type of monitoring (vegetation, wildlife, etc.), schedule, assignments and how the results of these monitoring efforts will be reported and/or uploaded to this project page. If needed, upload detailed plans in the "attachments" section.
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Partners
UDWR NER Habitat/Aquatic/Law Enforcement/Wildlife sections.
List any and all partners (agencies, organizations, NGO's, private landowners) that support the proposal and/or have been contacted and included in the planning and design of the proposed project. Describe efforts to gather input and include these agencies, landowners, permitees, sportsman groups, researchers, etc. that may be interested/affected by the proposed project. Partners do not have to provide funding or in-kind services to a project to be listed.
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Future Management
Future fencing needs will be monitored by UDWR staff.
Detail future methods or techniques (including administrative actions) that will be implemented to help in accomplishing the stated objectives and to insure the long term success/stability of the proposed project. This may include: post-treatment grazing rest and/or management plans/changes, wildlife herd/species management plan changes, ranch plans, conservation easements or other permanent protection plans, resource management plans, forest plans, etc.
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Sustainable Uses of Natural Resources
Good fencing helps control surrounding livestock use, limiting the forage use occurring on the WMA. The forage on the WMA can then be utilized by wildlife, which helps offset losses from neighboring private property owners.
Potential for the proposed action to improve quality or quantity of sustainable uses such as grazing, timber harvest, biomass utilization, recreation, etc. Grazing improvements may include actions to improve forage availability and/or distribution of livestock.
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