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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
775-688-1542
Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI aka UtahPCD)
Rory Reynolds
801-538-4876
