Morgan County Priorities
For data gathering purposes the County identified these priorities:
- Water Rights
- Land Use
- Water Quality and Hydrology
- Wildlife
- Noxious Weeds
WFRC Plan Review Matrix – Related to Morgan County
Goals, policies, and guidelines from plans and studies that pertain to the county and are related to the resources required for County Resource Management Plans are shown below. Visit the WFRC page for similar information for the entire region.
| Resource Category | Subcategory | Goals and Policies | Plan | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Management | Ecology | Increase the active use of fire to return fire dependent ecosystems to proper functioning and to reduce hazardous fuels. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Enhance an average of 25,000 acres of sage-grouse habitat in Sage-grouse Management Areas annually. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Increase the total amount of sage-grouse habitat acreage within Sage-grouse Management Areas by an average of 50,000 acres per year, through management actions targeting Opportunity Areas. Opportunity Areas are areas which offer the best potential for creating new habitat for greater sage-grouse. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Protect 10,000 acres of sage-grouse habitat on private and School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) lands annually through conservation covenants, leases, easements or other legal tools, with emphasis on the best-of-the-best populations. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Protect, maintain, improve and enhance sage-grouse populations and habitats within the established Sage-grouse Management Areas. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Sustain an average male lek count of 4100 males (based on a ten-year rolling average on a minimum of 200 monitored leks) in the Sage-grouse Management Areas, and increase the population of males to an average of 5000 (based on the same ten-year rolling average on a minimum of 200 monitored leks) within the Sage-grouse Management Areas. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Reduce hazardous fuels (prescribed fire, silvicultural and mechanical treatments) with emphasis on interface communities (wildland/urban) and increase proactive participation of communities at risk. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Restore or maintain fire-adapted ecosystems (consistent with land uses, historic fire regimes, and other Forest Plan direction) through wildland fire use, prescribed fire, timber harvest or mechanical treatments. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Take timely actions to restore proper functioning of ecosystems after wildfire. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Fire is returned to habitats from which it had been unnaturally excluded, the ?re regime (frequency and intensity) in these habitats generally approximates a natural, pre-settlement regime. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 190 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Inappropriate Fire Frequency and Intensity - Fire is excluded from habitats in which potential burns now would be frequent, large, and destructive to soils and native vegetation to the habitats are being actively managed (treated) to reduce components or factors that promote risk of catastrophic ?re, such as cheatgrass, excessive conifer encroachment, or unnaturally large stands of mature Gambel oak | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 188 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Support the viability of agricultural operations as a means of long-term maintenance of working open spaces. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage intergovernmental cooperation in cultural resources management. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage property owners to conduct cultural resource surveys on significantly sized projects, or projects which are located in proximity to areas identified as having cultural resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Encourage the conservation, restoration, and preservation of those properties already listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Work with owners of properties with significant cultural resources to identify alternative funding sources to avoid, reduce, or mitigate impacts on the resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Compile a list of significant Morgan County cultural resources and encourage the protection of significant concentrations of archaeological, historical, and other cultural resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Conserve cultural resources within Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Identify appropriate treatment measures to be taken when significant prehistoric or historic sites, buildings, structures, and objects may be adversely affected. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Seek adaptive uses as an alternative to demolishing or significantly altering historic structures. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Include the appropriate fire district and municipal fire agencies in the review of development proposals and assist the fire districts and municipal fire agencies in communicating their concerns to developers. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Limit, through the rezoning process, the increase in housing density (a) outside fire districts, (b) in the Wildland?-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, and (c) in areas where roadways are substandard. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Reduce the threat of wildfire in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas through thinning/ fuel break projects. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Regularly update each Counties Wildfire Management Plan. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Discourage increased densities in designated floodplains. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Protect property and residents from natural hazards, including flooding and other flood events, seismic events, landslides, rock fall, or subsidence. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Require the avoidance or mitigation of environmental hazards such as flooding, landslides, and subsidence or fissure zones as part of the development review process. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Development proposed in geologically hazardous areas or on steep slopes should be avoided or, if allowed, done in a manner that poses little or no hazard to life, health or property. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect property and residents from natural hazards, including flooding and other flood events, seismic events, landslides, rock fall, or subsidence. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require the avoidance or mitigation of environmental hazards such as flooding, landslides, and subsidence or fissure zones as part of the development review process. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require utility providers to strengthen, relocate, or take other appropriate measures to safeguard pipelines, transmission lines, and other utility infrastructure in areas subject to elevated natural hazard risk. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Land Use | Open space | Adopt an open space plan that identifies prime lands for conservation and develops strategies for the acquisition and long-term maintenance of these lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Develop a system of natural open space areas that protect and conserve natural, physical, and social resources. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Explore implementation of flexible zoning techniques that promote open space preservation. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Identify, protect and conserve high value wildlife habitat and recreational open space areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Open space | Improve the quality, quantity and design of open space, park lands and trails. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Adopt regulations for development in environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Consider conserving contiguous open space on lands that are environmentally sensitive due to geological instability, steep slopes, floodplains, watersheds, and habitat areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Consider providing incentives for landowners to preserve and protect environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage density transitions to separate rural from urbanized areas and to buffer preserve areas from urbanized areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage density transitions to separate rural from urbanized areas and to buffer preserve areas from urbanized areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage the use of conservation easements which are supported by the landowner(s). | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Explore the implementation of flexible zoning techniques that protect environmentally sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote ecologically responsible development patterns within Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote the protection of important natural resources through collaboration in acquiring, managing, and interpreting natural areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect the health, safety, and welfare of Morgan County residents by directing growth away from hazardous areas and sensitive lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Seek opportunities for easements, dedications, joint?-use agreements, or other appropriate methods with other public agencies, jurisdictions, and private property owners. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Adopt outside lighting standards to reduce light pollution and protect the Morgan County night sky. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect scenic vistas by discouraging development on ridgelines and high-?visibility areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Provide and protect existing and future access to the Weber River and public lands. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Support private land managers, management agencies, and citizen groups in their efforts to coordinate planning and maintenance of recreational opportunities that minimize adverse impacts to natural systems and residential areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Develop guidelines to meet the parkland and facility demands for neighborhood and community parks created by new development. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Require developers to meet the parkland and facility demands for neighborhood and community parks created by new development through impact fees and master planned communities. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Adopt a Parks, Recreation and Trails master plan. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Develop standards and development criteria for integration of park land, open space and trails into new residential development. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Develop standards for construction and maintenance of parks and trails to ensure long term usability. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Encourage the development of increased year?round recreational opportunities. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop a safe, multi-?use trail system that provides connectivity throughout the County and to recreational areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop paved and unpaved trail standards for village and rural environments. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Encourage and promote the benefits of volunteer labor and material donations for trail development and maintenance. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for a safe separation of non-?motorized and motorized trail networks and corridors. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for a wide range of non-?motorized and motorized trail uses including hiking, equestrian, mountain biking, and off?-highway vehicles. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for multi use path and trail corridors for connectivity throughout the County. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide for public access to all trails by coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies and private developers to ensure that appropriate public trail connections and access points are planned, constructed, and maintained. | Morgan County General Plan | 42 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Preserve, protect, or conserve natural watercourses, water bodies, and drainage systems. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Develop a watershed management plan that protects the County?s key contributing areas to promote water quality and conservation. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Wetlands | Identify the significant natural watercourses, water bodies, and drainages and develop County regulations to manage development near such features to protect their natural function and fluctuation. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Identify, protect and conserve high value wildlife habitat and recreational open space areas. | Morgan County General Plan | 41 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Minimize the fragmentation of wildlife habitat and support efforts to maintain or restore connectivity among habitats. | Morgan County General Plan | 43 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Due to the importance of high quality soil types in the Porterville/Richville area include "Right to Farm" provisions in the Land Use Management Code to protect existing prime agricultural operations and provide incentives for the continued production of prime agricultural lands. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Air Quality | Agriculture | Farming in the community helps purify the air naturally by producing carbon credits from certain crops such as corn, barley, wheat, etc. Agricultural interests in the Porterville/Richville area should be protected to enhance air quality. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Development shall not contribute significantly to the degradation of air quality in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Morgan County should establish an ongoing air quality monitoring program and actively implement corrective strategies, which might include appropriate regulations on fireplaces and other similar measures, if required to maintain acceptable air quality standards. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Require developments and subdivisions in the Wildland?Urban Interface (WUI) to provide forest stewardship, fuels mitigation plans, and property maintenance covenants that incorporate the principles of defensible and survivable space along with reduced potential for home ignition. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Update and tailor the WUI code to meet the needs of Morgan County. | Morgan County General Plan | 44 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Adequate buffers from development should be provided along all waterways and wetlands in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Base densities for dwelling units and present zone designations should not be changed or increased in existing floodplain areas in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Promote open space in designated flood zones unless the hazard can be adequately mitigated. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Promote rural, open space, and agricultural uses in designated flood zones unless the hazard can be adequately mitigated. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Richville/Porterville discourages development or construction in a floodplain or whenever it will significantly alter the natural drainage patterns of the land. Development in a floodplain shall specifically comply with all applicable Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Forest management | Products | Adopt standards for logging on private land that minimize the adverse impacts of the operations on soil erosion, sedimentation, and other reasonable concerns following the policies of the National Forest Service regarding extracting of timber in the Western Region. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Manage development, minimize damage and hazards, and protect life and property in areas subject to risk from natural hazards such as seismic activity, unstable soils, flooding conditions, and other geologic hazards in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Morgan County should develop hillside-grading standards, by ordinance, to minimize the hazards of erosion and slope failure. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Morgan County should require all new and remodeled structures to meet or exceed International Building Code (IBC) earthquake resistant design standards. Morgan County may also consider adopting other portions of the IBC in addition to those for earthquake design and more specifically consider adopting Appendix Chapter 33 "Excavation and Grading" and Chapter 18 "Foundations and Retaining Walls". | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development in the Porterville/Richville area on lands which, based on reliable evidence, is found to be unsuitable for the development due to unstable soil conditions. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development on lands which, based on reliable evidence, is found to be unsuitable for the development due to unstable soil conditions, that have or can result in existing or potential slope instability, or have evidence of snow avalanche history. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Prohibit any development or construction on any natural slope that is 25 percent or greater and require engineering measures to reduce the slope instability hazard potential and risk. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect life and property by managed development in unstable soils. (Appendix: 1997 Porterville/Richville Master Plan) | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Review development proposals located in or immediately adjacent to areas of soil instability, liquefaction areas, and steep slopes to provide geotechnical studies, determine if a significant constraint exists relative to these various issues and to determine appropriate land use and structural design. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Require that soils containing toxic or hazardous substances be cleaned up to the satisfaction of the agency having jurisdiction prior to development or redevelopment. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | All development in areas where existing vegetation stands are predominant shall retain the maximum amount of existing vegetation on a site. Areas that shall remain undisturbed shall be designated before construction on any site containing sensitive lands and vegetation. The edge of disturbance areas shall be made to look as natural as possible. Straight-line removal of vegetation is discouraged. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | All development in areas where existing vegetation stands are predominant shall retain the maximum amount of existing vegetation on a site. Areas that shall remain undisturbed shall be designated before construction on any site containing sensitive lands and vegetation. The edge of disturbance areas shall be made to look as natural as possible. Straight-line removal of vegetation is discouraged. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Maintain a rural look and atmosphere in the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Place a high priority on the preservation of the natural beauty that surrounds and exists through the Richville/Porterville area in reviewing any future development for approval. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Preserve open space in and around the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the pristine mountain and valley area for the residents of the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the quietness and pristine life in the community. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 34 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Strongly discourage any development on mountain hill sides and ridge lines that allows a structure to protrude into the skyline, as viewed from all public roadways by establishing a provision in the Land Use Management Code regulating the placement of any structure in these sensitive areas. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Morgan County should work with all public land managers and residents of Morgan County to identify appropriate access points to public lands that should be protected or encouraged and develop strategies for providing and maintaining such access points on a long-term basis, while protecting private property rights. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Preserve and create appropriate motorized and nonmotorized access to public lands in conjunction with public land managers and major development projects. The intention is not to require property owners who live adjacent to public lands to provide public access, rather only in areas that are appropriate for access while protecting private property rights. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Legal non-conforming lots shall meet minimum standards for septic and water and be developed in a manner which is sensitive to the land. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Morgan County should aggressively enforce any violations of County environmental health policies related to inadequate septic systems in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Morgan County wishes to work with the stakeholders involved with East Canyon so that the water quality can be returned to its former levels including the East Canyon Creek Watershed Committee. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Prohibit sewage and other waste disposal systems from discharging into any stream or waterway in the Porterville/Richville area. Current controlled discharge from the East Canyon Resort should be closely monitored by the Weber/Morgan Environmental Health Department and other state and federal agencies. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Protect water quality and ensure that there are adequate quantities of water for all users in Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The Morgan Soil Conservation, in conjunction with the State of Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, conducts a annual study of the well and culinary water quality each year in the Morgan area and has findings of high levels of nitrates, coliform, and ecoli in the Porterville/Richville area in some private wells. These levels need to be watched and taken into consideration for future use of the land. (Appendix: State of Utah Ground Water Program) | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The Morgan-Weber County Health Department shall conduct percolation tests and determine probable worst case, on-site and off-site impacts of septic system development and prescribe mitigation requirements which shall be incorporated into a development prior to the issuance of a building permit. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Development should not be permitted which will adversely affect the quality and/or accessibility of the water resources in the area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Development that accelerates the erosion of soil, and thereby contributes significantly to the stream sedimentation, will require special review and mitigation to the satisfaction of Morgan County. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | It is a recommendation that a central community culinary water system or several small systems be studied and developed for the residences in the Richville/Porterville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | No new development should be approved without providing the evidence of "wet" water (not paper water). | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 31 |
| Wetlands | Morgan County should require the protection of all wetlands, streams and other waterways and other environmentally sensitive lands from construction impacts and runoff from parking lots, roads and other impervious surfaces. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 33 | |
| Wetlands | Prohibit any development in moderate or high quality wetlands, unless appropriate mitigation is approved by the jurisdictional governmental agencies. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 29 | |
| Wetlands | Richville/Porterville should work with the Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Resource Conservation Service to establish "Special Area Management Plans" within Richville/Porterville as a means to proactively work toward the protection of important wetland resources, and to establish mitigation strategies for unavoidable impacts. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Limit development in or near wildlife winter ranges, wildlife birthing areas, eagle nesting areas, fisheries, or migration corridors. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 30 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Sustainable agriculture has numerous elements, but the ultimate goal is to keep land in production now and into the future. Steps to bring in-creased profits and provide sound stewardship of the air, water, and soil, as well as improved quality of life for farming communities, are needed. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Agriculture | Land use | The preservation of agricultural lands and agricultural sustainability go hand-in-hand. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Ditches and canals | Current funding programs are inadequate for dealing with the magnitude of canal improvements needed. They have strict limitations and are not set up in a way that is practical. It would be extremely beneficial for both agricultural and M&I users if funding mechanisms were in place that could be easily applied for and implemented. It would enable delivery system companies to improve and upgrade their infrastructure before a catastrophe or break occurs. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 6 | |
| Ditches and canals | Canals are often used for unauthorized recreation. This is both a safety and a liability issue. Canals are not meant for recreation, but it inevitably happens. The canal companies are forced to implement security measures and carry insurance coverage, further adding to the high price of water. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Fisheries | Habitat | To effectively manage Bonneville cutthroat trout in Utah, biologists must continue to conserve and restore remaining habitat, remove nonnative trout that compete with native cutthroats, and discontinue the stocking of fertile nonnative fishes where Bonneville cutthroat occur. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 13 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Proper forest management is encouraged to reduce risks from threats such as beetles, wildfire, and aspen declines. Proper management may include timber harvest, thinnings, regeneration, and fuels reductions. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 12 |
| Livestock and Grazing | Rangeland concerns can be remedied utilizing rangeland management techniques such as rotational grazing systems, brush management to reduce canopy cover of cedar, integrated pest management, and range planting in areas of heavy infestation of noxious plants. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 12 | |
| Noxious weeds | It is critical to keep potential [invasive and noxious weeds] out of the county. Once a noxious or invasive weed is established, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Noxious weeds | Small, contained populations of noxious and invasive weeds that are detected early have a high probability of being effectively managed. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Noxious weeds | Eliminating weeds before they cause damage to the landscape will save the county from losing biological resources and less-en the financial burden it takes to maintain these weeds once they have spread out of control. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 4 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | When land is developed, many of the issues above can be minimized if storm water, tailwater, and effluent water are properly managed and comply with Utah State Water Law under Utah Code, Title 73. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Urban development can introduce storm water and pollution into irrigation infra-structure. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Agricultural water users need to maximize their irrigation efficiency by implementing the most water efficient irrigation technology. These projects are costly and often require grants and loans to implement. Likewise, M&I users need to implement both indoor and outdoor water conservation measures to ensure that all the water in the county is being put to the best use. | Morgan County Resource Assessment | 7 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Coordinate minimum fire safety standards between the local fire districts and wildland fire district to ensure consistent fire safety standards in the Porterville/Richville area. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Incorporate subdivision standards and development requirements in the Land Use Management Code that minimize the impact of developing in remote and environmentally sensitive parts of the Porterville/Richville area, including requirements for water supply for firefighting purposes, measures for clearing brush and vegetation from the area around the structure, access, infrastructure standards, and other appropriate regulations in high, moderate, and low fire hazard areas. | Morgan County Porterville/Richville Area Plan | 32 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Ensure National Forest management activities result in meeting state and federal air quality standards, and comply with local, state and federal air quality regulations and requirements. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Fully integrate the Heritage Program into land and resource management. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Implement the National Heritage Strategy emphasizing the need for non-project inventories (Section 110) and public education and awareness programs. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Inventory, evaluate, protect and enhance heritage sites and landscapes. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Increase public understanding and support of the active use of fire to improve watershed and habitat conditions and reduce fuels. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Reduce hazardous fuels (prescribed fire, silvicultural and mechanical treatments) with emphasis on interface communities (wildland/urban) and increase proactive participation of communities at risk. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Restore or maintain fire-adapted ecosystems (consistent with land uses, historic fire regimes, and other Forest Plan direction) through wildland fire use, prescribed fire, timber harvest or mechanical treatments. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain and/or restore tall forb communities to mid seral or potential natural community (PNC) status. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore as mature and old age classes 40% of total conifer and 30% of total aspen cover types, well distributed across the landscape. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Maintain or restore species composition, such that the species that occupy any given site are predominantly native species in the kind and amount that were historically distributed across the landscapes. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Forest Management | Products | Use timber harvest where allowed, to contribute to the economy while achieving properly functioning conditions of vegetation and watersheds. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Land Access | Planning | Acquire access and rights-of-way for general public and administrative use. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Minimize the addition of special use encumbered areas of National Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Access | Planning | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Access | Right of Way | Ogden area in cooperation with the cities of North Ogden, Pleasant View and Willard. Needed access and rights of way will be maintained or acquired to complete the Bonneville Shoreline trail along the Wasatch Front. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-146 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Continue to allow for most currently authorized uses while encouraging opportunities to phase out or move to private lands uses with limited public benefits. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Land Use | Utility corridors | Utilize currently designated utility corridors fully for power transmission lines of 66kV or greater and oil and gas pipelines 10? or greater. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Recognize and manage for the importance of scenic forest landscapes to overall recreation settings as well as to the quality of life for communities adjacent to the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Restore, maintain or enhance landscape scenic integrity across the variety of landscape character themes found on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Law Enforcement | Increase Forest Service field presence in key areas, improve effectiveness of public information on restrictions, and increase participation of individuals and organized groups in monitoring uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Manage livestock grazing levels and operations on suitable lands for sustainable forage use within properly functioning conditions. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Greatly reduce known infestations of noxious weeds and rigorously prevent their introduction and/or spread. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Improve Forest user?s awareness of what noxious weeds are and how they spread and increase Forest users? active participation in reducing and preventing infestations. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Involve Forest users in developing strategies for managing recreation to meet desired future conditions and address recreation pressures and demands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Increase Forest recreation user stewardship of resources and strengthen awareness of user ethics for reducing resource and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Encourage private enterprise to develop recreational facilities on and off the Forest that provide for a range of recreation opportunities (e.g. camping and picnicking areas, trailheads, and interpretive sites). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Manage for an array of recreation opportunities and settings to improve the quality of life for a variety of Forest recreation users. Balance growth and expansion of recreation by managing within the capability of sustainable ecosystems found on the Forest for today and the future. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Use ski area associated private and public developed recreation facilities to provide world-class skiing and mountain resort opportunities while contributing to the economy. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-23 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Acquire lands or easements needed to facilitate Bonneville Shoreline and Great Western Trails development. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-24 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Manage trails to provide desired recreation opportunities for recreation users and to meet Forest Service standards. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage recreation use of undeveloped areas on the forest to provide for desirable opportunities while preventing or reducing resource impacts and social conflicts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Manage uses of new recreational technologies to provide for opportunities while preventing or minimizing negative social and/or resource impacts on the Forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Provide a variety of opportunities for motorized access while avoiding or reducing undesirable social and resource impacts. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Work closely with city, county, state and tribal governments to provide for integrated, coordinated development and management (including enforcement) of OHV activities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-21 |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Maintain and/or restore habitat to sustain populations of well-distributed native and desired non-native plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate populations that contribute to viability of riparian-dependent communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Riparian Areas | Raintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Maintain pollinators and minimize impacts to pollinators or their habitats. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Improve Forest users? understanding of the values of and potential human impacts to biodiversity and viability of species. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Increase understanding of and support research on the distribution, ecology, and threats to plant species at risk, nonvascular plants and rare plant communities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain or restore viability of populations of species at risk, Watch List Plants, and rare communities | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain viability of species-at-risk (including endangered, threatened and sensitive species and unique communities). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Manage Forest Service sensitive species to prevent them from being classified as threatened or endangered and where possible provide for delisting as sensitive (FSM 2670). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or improve water quality to provide stable and productive riparian and aquatic ecosystems. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore overall watershed health (proper functioning of physical, biological and chemical conditions). Provide for long term soil productivity. Watershed health should be addressed across administrative and political boundaries. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain and/or restore stream channel integrity, channel processes, and sediment regimes (timing, volume, character of sediment input/transport) under which riparian & aquatic ecosystems developed. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Maintain water in streams, lakes, and wetlands of adequate quantity and quality to provide for instream flows and existing downstream uses including support of healthy riparian & aquatic habitats, stability & effective function of stream channels, ability to route flood discharges, and to maintain recreation opportunities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Protect waters meeting or surpassing State water quality standards by planning and designing land management activities to protect water quality. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Design and implement watershed management programs and plans that will restore water quality and watershed function to support beneficial uses. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Maintain and/or restore soil productivity to improve watershed functioning through managing ground cover, soil compaction, and vegetation. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Identify [watershed] areas not in properly functioning condition. Improve plant species composition, ground cover and age class diversity in these areas. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-17 |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore natural timing and variability of water table elevation in spring sources, meadows & wetlands. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wetlands | Maintain and/or restore diversity, productivity, vigor, and regenerative capacity of native and desired non-native riparian and wetland plant communities to provide an amount and distribution of large woody debris characteristic of natural aquatic & riparian ecosystems; provide adequate summer & winter thermal regulation; and to help achieve rates of surface erosion and channel migration characteristic of those under which desired communities develop. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 | |
| Wilderness | Manage Wildernesses recognizing differences in population proximity and consequent role in providing wilderness experiences for more people. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-25 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Evaluate areas with potential for Research Natural Area designation including Ben Lomond Peak (tall forb values), western portion of the Deseret Peak Wilderness (Great Basin community types and cryptogamic crusts). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-19 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Maintain or restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through recognition and management of Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas (defined in Glossary) for metapopulations of cutthroat trout, recognizing the relative degree to which these fish depend on National Forest lands and conditions of these habitats off-forest. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide adequate habitat components for sustainable big game populations coordinated with State wildlife management agencies, private lands and other resource needs and priorities. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide for connectivity of continuous large patches of forested habitat for interior forest-dependent and wide-ranging species (such as lynx, wolverine and migratory birds). | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Provide suitable habitat for prey species such as hares, squirrels, and small mammals. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-20 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Provide for sustained diversity of species at the genetic, populations, community and ecosystem levels. Maintain communities within their historic range of variation that sustains habitats for viable populations of species. Restore or maintain hydrologic functions. Reduce potential for uncharacteristic high-intensity wildfires, and insect epidemics. To achieve sustainable ecosystems, meet properly functioning condition (PFC) criteria for all vegetation types that occur in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Focus on approximating natural disturbances and processes by restoring composition, age class diversity, patch sizes, and patterns for all vegetation types. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-18 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | upgrade school and institutional trust land assets where prudent by exchange. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | manage school and institutional trust lands for their highest and best trust land use. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | maximize the commercial gain from trust land uses for school and institutional trust lands consistent with long-term support of beneficiaries | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Land Use | Productivity | permit other land uses or activities not prohibited by law which do not constitute a loss of trust assets or loss of economic opportunity. | SITLA | R850-2-200 |
| Predator Control | Maintain a healthy cougar population within their current distribution while considering human safety, economic concerns, other wildlife species, and maintaining hunting traditions through 2025. | Utah Cougar Management Plan | 3 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Increase opportunities for viewing mule deer while educating the public concerning the needs of deer and the importance of habitat and other limiting factors. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 22 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Provide a diversity of high-quality hunting and viewing opportunities for mule deer throughout the state. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 20 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Goal: Conserve, improve, and restore mule deer habitat throughout the state with emphasis on crucial ranges. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 18 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Objective 1: Maintain mule deer habitat throughout the state by protecting and enhancing existing crucial habitats and mitigating for losses due to natural and human impacts. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 18 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Habitat Objective 2: Improve the quality and quantity of vegetation for mule deer on a minimum of 500,000 acres of crucial range by 2019. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 19 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Maintain a hunting program for mule deer that encourages a variety of quality hunting opportunities while maintaining population objectives. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 20 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Population Management Goal: Expand and improve mule deer populations throughout the state within the carrying capacity of available habitats and in consideration of other land uses. | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 17 |
| Wildlife | Population management | Population Objective: By 2019, increase mule deer populations within the state as conditions allow and bring all populations to their unit objective (currently (2014) 425,400). | Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan | 17 |
| Predator Control | The DWR predator-control program provides incentives for hunters to remove coyotes. Primary goal of the program is to remove coyotes from areas where they may prey on mule deer. Participants receive $50 for each properly documented coyote that they kill in Utah. | Utah Predator Control Program Summary 2014-2015 | 0 | |
| Fisheries | Barriers | Native ?shes are able to move past water-??diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Fisheries | Barriers | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Fisheries | Barriers | Native ?shes are able to move past water?diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Fisheries | Flows | Establish water allocation policies protecting su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem for aquatic key habitats (especially those with occurrences of SGCNs). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Fisheries | Flows | Natural hydrographs (timing, duration, temperature, etc) are restored or mimicked in priority stream reaches below dams and reservoirs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 205 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Aquatic key habitats (especially at those locations important for SGCNs) contain su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem that supports the conservation target(s). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 196 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Complex habitats and ?oodplain connections are restored or maintained in selected rivers/streams. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 199 |
| Land Use | Open space | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Livestock and Grazing | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Invasive plant dominance/presence is reduced or eliminated in locations or habitats where such an outcome is realistic (ecologically and economically). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 228 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Locations/habitats that currently do not have non-??native plant problems remain free from the introduction and spread of invasive non-??native plants. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 226 | |
| Predator Control | Depleted native species whose populations require relief from native predators, receive assistance for as long as they need it, and no longer. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 240 | |
| Predator Control | Highly human-??tolerant problematic bird and mammal species are kept in check where their success has the potential to become problematic. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 240 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Responsible recreation is promoted and encouraged via e?ective education and enforcement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 178 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Recreational opportunities (OHV) are designed and presented in ways that encourage and promote responsible participation, while also ensuring that wildlife and habitat impacts are kept at acceptably low levels. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 177 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Aquatic key habitats (especially at those locations important for SGCNs) contain su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem that supports the conservation target(s). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 196 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Complex habitats and ?oodplain connections are restored or maintained in selected rivers/streams. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 199 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Establish water allocation policies protecting su?cient water to maintain a functioning aquatic ecosystem for aquatic key habitats (especially those with occurrences of SGCNs). | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 198 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Native ?shes are able to move past water-??diversion barriers where necessary or desired. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 203 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Aquatic | Natural hydrographs (timing, duration, temperature, etc) are restored or mimicked in priority stream reaches below dams and reservoirs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 205 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Locations/habitats that currently do not have non-??native plant problems remain free from the introduction and spread of invasive non-??native plants. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 226 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | Recreational opportunities (OHV) are designed and presented in ways that encourage and promote responsible participation, while also ensuring that wildlife and habitat impacts are kept at acceptably low levels. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 177 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Interpretation/education | Responsible recreation is promoted and encouraged via e?ective education and enforcement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 178 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 |
| Water Rights | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 | |
| Wetlands | Implement laws and policies for a broader array of agencies or conservation organizations to hold in-?stream water rights for the bene?t of aquatic habitats and SGCNs. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 197 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Future physical and environmental footprints of housing and urban development are reduced or managed so that wildlife resources are sustained. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 162 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Grazing is managed such that ecological conditions in Key Habitats show improvement in various indicators of rangeland health. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 168 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Inappropriate Fire Frequency and Intensity - Fire is excluded from habitats in which potential burns now would be frequent, large, and destructive to soils and native vegetation to the habitats are being actively managed (treated) to reduce components or factors that promote risk of catastrophic ?re, such as cheatgrass, excessive conifer encroachment, or unnaturally large stands of mature Gambel oak | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 188 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | New roads are planned and sited in areas where there are limited impacts to wildlife. When existing roads are maintained, barriers to wildlife movement are altered to allow for movement. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 173 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Open lands that are crucial to wildlife do not have the potential to be developed for housing and urban growth. | Utah Wildlife Action Plan | 160 |
| Noxious weeds | Established noxious weed infestations are not increasing or are reduced to low densities. New invader species are not becoming established. New infestations of species are contained or reduced. New populations of existing noxious weeds are eradicated or reduced in highly susceptible, often disturbed areas. Native plants dominate most landscapes that have been rehabilitated. | Wasatch-Cache National Forest Noxious Weed Treatment Program:DEIS | 1/15/2016 | |
| Agriculture | Land use | To protect the working lands of the Wasatch Front which include forests, orchards, rangelands, and agricultural lands. To support the economic viability of working lands, maintain their benefits, and to retain the rural character of the region. | WFRC (re)connect | 46 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | To promote the development of healthy communities, places we live, work, and gather. To preserve and strengthen cultural resources, places of heritage, and economic health. | WFRC (re)connect | 53 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | To promote a healthy hydrological system which encourages efficient flood control and water conveyance, while providing clean water, wildlife habitat, and recreational uses. | WFRC (re)connect | 32 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | To protect and enhance parks and open space of the Wasatch Front, to connect land and water corridors, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities such as fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing, paddling, camping, and trail-based activities. To strengthen the vibrant network of parks, trails, scenic qualities, recreational amenities, and natural lands in the Wasatch Front. | WFRC (re)connect | 39 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Supply | To protect and enhance the water resources of the Wasatch Front, including watersheds, wetlands, groundwater, and source water areas, to ensure water quality, and to provide a continually safe and abundant water supply. | WFRC (re)connect | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | To protect and enhance natural landscapes, ecosystems, and the biodiversity of the Wasatch Front Region. To provide habitat for plant communities, wildlife, and fisheries, and to include unique ecological communities for rare, threatened or endangered species; and areas of environmental concern. | WFRC (re)connect | 23 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Create water efficient landscaping standards in population centers. Consider secondary water systems and methods to incentivize water reuse systems. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Water Rights | As agricultural lands are permanently conserved, make water rights to accommodate continued farming or ranching a condition of conservation transactions. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Land Use | When real estate development projects are proposed, require an impacts analysis. A basic impact or cost revenue analysis can provide a systematic comparison of two money flows: (1) the amount of revenue a development is likely to contribute into a local treasury over time, and (2) the cost of services that a local government is likely to provide to that development over time. This sort of analysis enables decision makers to understand the likely long-term impacts to the public, both in terms of revenue and of cost. Indicators may include anticipated property tax revenue, anticipated sales tax revenue, roadway maintenance and replacement costs, water and sewer system maintenance and replacement costs, and water consumption. | Envision Morgan | 13 | |
| Land Use | Create a comprehensive open space data set. Identify and compile or create data layers that can inform conservation and development decisions. The layers can provide a basis for impact analysis when development is proposed and for identifying potential conservation purposes when permanent conservation is proposed. The data may also inform the development of an open space and trails master plan. | Envision Morgan | 16 | |
| Land Use | Adopt/update a sensitive lands overlay zone to restrict development on critical lands, based on select information in the open space data set. | Envision Morgan | 16 | |
| Agriculture | Adopt policy to reduce conflicts between agricultural land uses and residential uses. Agricultural lands are an important part of Morgan. Incorporate design strategies into planning documents to help those wishing to continue agricultural pursuits. Special attention will need to be given to the edges between population centers and agricultural land. Buffering, concentrating more intensive development inward, and education strategies to improve awareness of agricultural needs may be a part of this equation. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Explore options for a tax or bond to purchase either development rights or the outright purchase of land for conservation purposes. Even a relatively small local financial commitment can enable a community to leverage funds that are available through state, federal or other agencies for conservation. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Consider establishing a purchase of development rights (PDR) program. PDR enables development rights to be purchased and retired. The buyer is likely a third party conservation-minded entity instead of a developer. This tool is often used along with a tool that generates revenue to be used for conservation, such as a tax or bond. | Envision Morgan | 17 | |
| Land Use | Adopt policy encouraging conservation easements. Conservation easements are a cornerstone of land protection programs. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Adopt/update code-based design guidelines. Conservation subdivisions or clustering allows landowners to develop at full density while working around features that make good candidates for conservation. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Explore fee in lieu options. When a developer submits a request to develop at a density higher than permitted, a fee could be imposed in exchange for a density increase, which could be reserved for the preservation of open land. Since it is triggered by a request for higher density, it is not considered an impact fee. | Envision Morgan | 26 | |
| Land Use | Implement a transfer of development rights (TDR) program. | Envision Morgan | 27 | |
| Land Use | Adopt needed incentives. Incentives can provide motivation to grow in preferred locations and patterns. Bonus residential density or increases in floor area ratios on commercial projects may provide the incentive needed for landowners and developers to use land conserving tools like TDR. | Envision Morgan | ||
| Recreation | Create an open space, recreation and trails master plan that identifies longterm goals for a future public open lands network. | Envision Morgan | 32 | |
| Recreation | Conservation easements should be placed on lands that are a part of the public open space network, to ensure its permanent conservation. | Envision Morgan | 32 | |
| Noxious weeds | Appropriately manage existing and invasive weeds in Utah through: A) education and research; B) Mapping and monitoring; C) Prevention, early detection, and rapid response; D) Control - integrated weed management; E) Restoration; F) Regulation and enforcement; G) Funding. | Utah Strategic Plan for Managing Noxious and Invasive Weeds | 18 |