Utah - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • Clover Flat Vegetation Treatment, Fishlake National Forest
    The Clover Flat project is designed to restore aspen. This project will treat approximately 30 acres.
  • Mytoge Vegetative Treatment, Fishlake National Forest
    The Mytoge project is designed to reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health. This project will treat approximately 125 acres.
  • South Creek Project, Dixie National Forest
    The objectives of the South Creek project are to restore healthy forests and re-establish the ecological role of fire. This project will treat approximately 1,711 acres.
  • Manti II Fuels Reduction, Manti-La Sal National Forest
    The Manti II Fuels project is designed to reduce fuels adjacent to an at-risk community. This project will treat approximately 122 acres.
  • Barney Top Resource Management Project, Dixie National Forest
    The Barney Top Resource Management Project is designed to decrease stand density and mortality due to spruce beetle, as well as restoration of interior meadows and aspen stands. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
  • Bryant's Fork Spruce Trap Tree Treatment, Uinta National Forest
    The goal of the Bryant's Fork Spruce Trap Tree Treatment is to reduce the spruce mortality due to a spruce beetle outbreak through removing dead and infested trees. A contract was awarded in FY 2004.
  • North Rich Interior Boundary Fencing, Wasatch-Cache National Forest
    The North Rich Interior Boundary Fencing project involves construction of approximately nine miles of wire let-down fence to begin the process of dividing the North Rich Cattle Allotment into three pastures. The allotment is approximately 27,000 acres in size.
  • Puma Vegetation Management, Dixie National Forest
    The objectives of the Puma Vegetation Management project are to improve forest health, create diverse structural conditions, and reduce the potential for wildfires on National Forest land adjacent to Bryce Canyon National Park. The project will treat approximately 243 acres.

Bureau of Land Management

  • Dickinson Hill, Cedar City Field Office
    This project focuses on reducing the incidence of catastrophic wildfire in the urban interface. Fuels will be reduced by mechanically thinning pinyon pine and juniper in 6-7 treatment units totaling approximately 700 acres. The total project size is 900 acres. Treatments will be patterned in a mosaic to mimic natural fire regimes while reducing fire threats, increasing defensible space. All trees which are greater than 16" at the base will be left for wildlife cover.
  • Gardner Canyon, Vernal Field Office
    This 600 acre project will conduct restoration treatments on an area that experienced a high intensity wildfire in August 2002, and adjacent unburned areas. The project would include the salvage of dead and dying trees resulting from the fire, and green, unburned trees resulting from forest restoration/WUI treatments of adjacent unburned areas. The project will include the reforestation and aspen restoration activities.
  • Greenville Bench, Cedar City Field Office
    This project consists of creating two shaded fuel breaks along county roads that transect the Greenville Bench Prescribed Fire Area. Approximately 800 acres will be treated. The hazardous fuel removal will result in the elimination of overstocked juniper trees. The area will be burned under a separate and larger prescribed burn plan.
  • Hill Springs, Salt Lake Field Office
    This project will reduce the density of the juniper woodlands in the Hill Spring Allotment. Currently the density of juniper is far in excess of the ecological site description for a healthy range condition. The objective of the project is to reduce the overstory density to 5-10 trees per acre, improve native vegetation composition, & improve wildlife habitat for mule deer, Ferruginous hawks, & other range dependent species.
  • Johnson Creek, Moab Field Office
    This project includes the creation of shaded fuel breaks on the 345 acre project area. The shaded fuel break will leave trees with 30-40 foot crown spacing. The primary objective is to remove hazardous fuel, elimination of diseased pinyon and reduce the density of the overstocked juniper trees.

Location: http://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/stewardship/ut.shtml
Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007