1. Alan Clark Watershed Program Director Utah Department of Natural Resources April 26, 2016

2. Founded in 1993, reconvened in 2003 to address drought/state-wide sagebrush die-off Top leaders (Director’s Council) of thirteen major federal and state agencies, universities, and NGO WRI is a UPCD-sponsored initiative Utah Partners for Conservation and Development

3. What is WRI? A Partnership Driven Effort to Conserve, Restore and Manage Ecosystems (Watersheds) in Priority Areas Across the State of Utah What ecosystem values do we focus on? Land Health and Biological Diversity Water Quality and Yield Opportunities for Sustainable Uses of Natural Resources Conservation Focus Areas Priority Areas are called Conservation Focus Areas

4. Focus Areas

5. UPCD Director’s Council Sponsors WRI Sets broad direction Regional Teams Bottom-up implementation Administration Utah DNR and DWR Funding/Staffing DWR, BLM, NRCS, FFSL, USFS, NGO’s, ETC. Governor and Legislature $4 million in FY16 Multiple Partners Project Support Supporting Infrastructure

6. Partnership Benefits Locally-led regional teams Matching dollars Assistance in project planning & management Contracting & accounting Seed-purchasing, storage, mixing, delivery Equipment Project monitoring & reporting Ability to work on a landscape scale across boundaries Project database/web application (Business System)

8. Regional Team - Project Ranking Compliance – NEPA, Cultural Resources Project Location – Conservation Focus Area? Water Quality/Quantity Benefit Wildlife Benefit – Game/Sportfish, Sensitive Species Utah Wildlife Action Plan Habitat/Species Threat Abatement Catastrophic Fire Threat Reduction Future Management, Monitoring Vegetative Community Threats/Risks addressed Relation to Natural Resource Oriented Management Plans Partner Inclusion, Domestic Livestock Benefit WRI Proposal/Process Improvement – Comments/Reports

10. Great Basin Research Center Short and Long Term Research/Monitoring Plant Materials Development Restoration Equipment Free of Charge Use to Utah WRI Projects Maintenance and Repair Costs Included Development of New Technology and Techniques Transport and Setup Seed Resources Bulk Ordering and Long Term Storage – Reduces Costs Expert Seed Mix Development Custom Mixing, Bagging

14. March-April-May Project Funding DNR BLM FFSL USFS BRFAC HC Sportsmen ICP ESMF Mitigation ETC. JULY 1st through following JUNE Funds available, Projects implemented Late Summer Fire Rehab Projects approved/funded October (following year) Completion Reports Due May Funded Project List Distributed by WRI Admin. January Proposals Due (for following FY) March 1st Project Rankings by Regional Teams Due Jan-Feb Proposal Review by Regional Teams FundingCycle

16. Total Acres = 510,781 $$ Spent = $37,887,609 $1 $20 For every DNR $1 spent on fire rehab, we have leveraged more than $20 from partner contributions Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative Completed Projects (2006 – 2015) Other RestorationFire Rehab Fiscal YearAcresDNR SpentPartner SpentIn-KindAcresDNR SpentPartner SpentIn-Kind 2006 55,653 $ 1,272,609 $ 3,686,813 $ 1,106,669 8,516 $ 152,346 $ 100,118 $ 180,000 2007 55,340 $ 1,359,572 $ 4,838,098 $ 631,885 33,048 $ 173,406 $ 647,002 $ 313,600 2008 71,918 $ 1,548,701 $ 6,431,682 $ 609,732 244,324 $ 161,055 $ 9,077,351 $ 708,002 2009 76,569 $ 3,664,449 $ 9,553,075 $ 508,177 1,959 $ 5,766 $ 1,760,916 $ 24,678 2010 89,709 $ 1,917,030 $ 11,921,080 $ 1,211,928 27,666 $ 26,627 $ 2,347,952 $ 127,389 2011 64,992 $ 1,685,009 $ 11,594,144 $ 2,038,261 47,181 $ 88,614 $ 665,957 $ 45,000 2012 70,251 $ 1,640,585 $ 9,564,012 $ 1,952,064 3,049 $ 143,027 $ 1,111,840 $ 45,400 2013 74,935 $ 1,749,632 $ 12,032,734 $ 2,111,830 113,623 $ 181,684 $ 15,945,713 $ 193,712 2014 72,635 $ 2,106,540 $ 14,240,416 $ 1,689,878 21,642 $ 653,823 $ 3,340,595 $ 318,460 2015 79,804 $ 1,213,189 $ 13,381,507 $ 1,859,944 9,773 $ 57,261 $ 1,246,557 $ 217,210 711,806 $ 18,157,316 $ 97,243,560 $ 13,720,369 510,781 $ 1,643,608 $ 36,244,001 $ 2,173,451 Total Acres = 711,806 $$ Spent = $115,400,876 $1 $5 For every DNR $1 spent on restoration, we have leveraged more than $5 from partner contributions

17. Project Partners

18. Greater Sage-grouse Habitat Restoration

19. Stream and Riparian Restoration

20. Fire Rehabilitation Coordinated effort across ownership and jurisdictions. Minimize post-fire erosion and watershed damage. Stop establishment of the cheat grass and short burn cycle. Return burned land to healthy, functioning watershed.

21. Priority Watershed Wildfire Rehabilitation

22. Developed in cooperation with Utah Dept of Tech Services + AGRC Online and transparent Submit proposals and track projects to completion Comment and communicate on proposed projects Project summary reports Custom queries and data extraction Geospatially enabled Manages WRI and other Utah DWR programs Business System Application wri.utah.gov 2016 200820092010201120122013201420152016 Phase 1 Initial Application Build Phase 1.1 Enhancements + Bugs Phase 2 Complete Rebuild $80k $425k 20062007 MS Access

23. HTTP (website) wrimaps.utah.gov GIS Server ArcGIS Server 10.3.1 3 map services 3 geoprocessing services 1 server object extension Web API C# NancyFX API Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 8.1 WRI Database SQL Server 2014 wri.utah.gov Application HTML5 CSS3 jQuery 1.11.2 Handlebars 3.0.3 Spring MVC 4.2.2 MyBatis 3.2.8 Linux Server Apache 2.2.31 Tomcat 8.0.28 Mapping Application Dojo v1.10 ArcGIS API for Javascript V3.15 watershed.utah.gov Website WordPress 4.4.2 PHP 5.6.15 HTML5 CSS3 Linux Server Apache 2.4.17 HTTPS (application) Business System Architecture

24. Neola Fire Rehabilitation

25. Sheeprock Area WRI Projects