Nevada Partners for Conservation and Development...
Transcript of Nevada Partners for Conservation and Development...
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
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