Salt Lake County Priorities
For data gathering purposes the County identified these priorities:
- Recreation and Tourism
- Air Quality
- Water Quality and Hydrology
- Water Rights
- Land Access
WFRC Plan Review Matrix – Related to Salt Lake 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 | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Objectives for fire management are planned results which can more than likely be attained and are categorized by vegetation type. [The plan identifies fire management objectives by vegetation types] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. Coordinate efforts with the defensible space plans that the mountain resorts have adopted. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support acquisition and maintenance of open space areas through transfers-of-development rights and land purchase programs. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, zoning ordinances and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Expand and support the enforcement of existing regulations and requirements by recognizing and further defining the role and regulatory limits of all relevant federal, state, and local jurisdictions within the development review and planning process. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the all-year function and activities in the canyon including the [Canyon] resorts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the approved and updated Master Plans of the two mountain resorts in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Projects that will take place on USFS land and that have been through the USFS approval process should be recognized. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize the SLCPU Watershed Plan, US Forest Service Plan, and all other relevant adopted plans, and work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different jurisdictions. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support development which incorporates open space design, such as clustered housing and transfer of development rights projects, where appropriate. The development of a TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) Ordinance and the identification of sending and receiving zones should be undertaken. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the dark-sky character and aesthetic of the canyon through the development of night-time lighting ordinances that also recognize and allow night-time recreation initiatives at the mountain resorts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the establishment of underlying base zones that are consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan and that mesh with uses that are desirable, realistic, and practical within a given area. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Consider new, growing and evolving recreational uses in order to deal with changing impacts. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Install interpretive signs on trails to foster stewardship and appreciation of canyon history and resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with land managers, private landowners, resorts, and trails organizations to develop more technical mountain bike specific trails | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Create a funding mechanism to assist in maintaining the recreation facilities and amenities provided in the canyon and that assists in the purchase of available properties for open space purposes. The spirit of this mechanism would be to fund the ongoing recreation operations, including but not limited to trail maintenance, restroom maintenance, recreation sites, education and interpretation of the canyon?s resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support the creation of restroom facilities and parking areas at trailheads, including backcountry trailheads, and popular climbing areas to support the growing recreational uses in Big Cottonwood Canyon. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support additional commercial and recreational uses and parking in the base areas of the mountain resorts to accommodate the needs of visitors and canyon users and to concentrate these commercial uses where adequate infrastructure and services exist. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Support mountain resort viability to provide for increasing numbers of visitors and a diversity of uses and user groups as allowed within the limits and requirements of the current regulatory processes. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support the US Forest Service Wasatch Water Legacy Trails Action Plan. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. Coordinate efforts with the defensible space plans that the mountain resorts have adopted. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection, wildlife corridors and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Air Quality | Evaluations | Evaluations will consider the impacts of any proposed projects to soil, water, and air resources in the affected area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Air quality will be maintained or improved in accordance with State and Federal standards, including consultation with State agencies on proposed projects that may significantly affect air quality. Management actions on public land will be designed to protect against significant air quality deterioration. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Efforts will be undertaken on a regular and systematic basis to educate the public on the values of preserving their historic and prehistoric heritage. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A monitoring plan will be developed for the Resource Area. This plan will present a systematic scheme for examining significant sites over time to determine the causal agent and whether there is any deterioration of the sites. Steps may then be taken to protect the sites being damaged. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A predictive model of archaeological site locations shall be developed to provide the basis for the protection of cultural resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | A sensitivity map will be developed which will depict the geological formations and areas with known potential to contain important paleontological resources. Should a proposed surface-disturbing project be within an area of high sensitivity for paleontological resources, the State paleontologist will be consulted prior to the issuance of a decision. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | As time and funding allow, BLM will evaluate all recorded [cultural resource] sites on public lands within the Resource Area and assign them to one of three management categories, indicating availability for: (1) immediate scientific research, (2) recreation use/interpretation, or (3) conservation for future use. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Cultural Resources | Inventory/monitoring/modeling | Cultural resources (which include historic and prehistoric sites, artifacts, structures or locales) will continue to be inventoried and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Such evaluation will consider the impacts of any proposed project to cultural resources in the affected area. Stipulations will be attached as appropriate to assure compatibility of projects with management objectives for cultural resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Prescribed fire will be used as a resource management tool. Figure 11 indicates the fire management and use areas in Tooele County. Prescribed burns within the areas will be used to alter vegetation for the benefit of watershed, livestock grazing and/or wildlife habitat. The areas selected for prescribed burning will have the potential for natural revegetation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Support defensible space initiatives and programs that maintain ecosystem health and lessen the wildfire dangers to public safety. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| 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 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Management actions within floodplains and wetlands will include measures to preserve, protect, and if necessary, restore their natural functions. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Forest Management | Products | All other areas of juniper forest on public land within the Pony Express Resource Area shall remain open to harvesting of firewood, fence posts, Christmas trees or any other juniper products as defined in the Tooele County Woodland Management Plan and the Utah Supplemental Guidance: Management of Woodland Resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | Harvest of firewood, fence posts and Christmas trees shall not be authorized in crucial deer winter range during the period of December 1 to April 30. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | No harvest of saw timber for commercial or individual use shall not be allowed anywhere on public land within the Pony Express Resource Area except for maintenance practices such as thinning, disease control, wildlife improvements, and watershed enhancement. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Forest Management | Products | The harvest of pinyon pine for use as Christmas trees, either commercially or individually, shall be at the discretion of the Authorized Officer. These stands will be managed as outlined in the Utah Supplemental Guidance: Management of Woodland Resources. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Geology | Erosion | Areas of erosion on public land will be identified and evaluated to identify sources and determine improvements. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | BLM will not authorize placement or processing of hazardous wastes on public lands. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Evaluate the known or unknown existing hazardous waste sites and take necessary actions as required by law. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Approximately 30,203 acres of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Tooele County will continue to be managed as an ACEC. The following areas also would be designated as ACECs: Horseshoe Springs, North Stansbury Mountains, North Deep Creek Mountains. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 35 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Acquire certain private lands or interests in lands where needed to increase management efficiency and administration of lands with high public values. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Identify public lands available for disposal, available for exchange, and unavailable for disposal. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Identify lands of high public value, which include critical or crucial wildlife habitats, wilderness study areas, existing and proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, significant water resources, recreation areas, highly scenic areas, and areas with facilities and improvements. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Stipulations for use of public lands for military exercises | BLM Pony Express RMP | 16 |
| Land Use | Utility corridors | Future proposals for major, rights-of-way such as pipelines, large power lines and permanent improved roads will, to the extent practical, utilize identified corridors and rights-of-way as shown in [Figure]. Otherwise, a planning amendment and appropriate environmental analysis will be required. Proposals that are not considered major may be sited outside existing corridors and rights-of-way after demonstrating that locating within a corridor or right-of-way is not viable. In all cases, the utilization of rights-of-way in common shall be considered whenever possible. Rights-of-way, whether within or outside a corridor, will avoid the following areas to the maximum extent possible: [identified in the plan] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Designate [all public lands in appropriate] visual resource management (VRM) classes. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 33 |
| Livestock and Grazing | BLM will authorize livestock forage use as shown in Table 7 [in the plan] on six allotments. Grazing permits on six small, isolated allotments with minimal or no actual livestock use will be cancelled. These allotments are ... | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Categorize the twelve [grazing] allotments in Utah County in the Custodial (C) category. Allotments in this management category have limited or no potential for improvement or return on investment. Present management is satisfactory or the most logical practice for the resource involved. Permittees will be encouraged to invest in rangeland improvement projects. The allotments will be monitored approximately once every 10 years to assure that resource deterioration is not occurring. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Grazing use in allotments can be improved with development of plans including goals and objectives. The intensity and level of detail for the AMPS will vary depending on the nature of conflicts. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 25 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | The distribution of AlJMs in Tooele County will continue until and unless reduced by disposal of lands under the Lands Program. (The BLM specifies a breakdown of AUMs allocated to cattle, sheep domestic horses, wild horses, mule deer, elk, antelope,and bighorn sheep) | BLM Pony Express RMP | 25 | |
| Mineral Resources | Categorize lands as open to fluid mineral leasing, open with special stipulations, allowing no surface occupancy, or closed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 | |
| Mining | Applications to remove other types of leasable minerals such as phosphate, tar sands, and oil shale, will be processed on a case-by-case basis. Stipulations to protect important surface values will be required based on review of each proposal. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 22 | |
| Mining | Categorize lands as open to fluid mineral leasing, open with special stipulations, allowing no surface occupancy, or closed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 17 | |
| Mining | Identify land withdrawals (lands not available for mining) to protect rare and unique resources and public interests | BLM Pony Express RMP | 16 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Manage the following areas as Special Recreation Management Areas (RMAs): Bonneville Salt Flats, Pony Express Route, North Deep Creek, Payson Motocross Track, Knolls Special RMA. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Designate all public land in the Resource Area as either open, closed, or limited for off-road vehicle (OHV) use. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Riparian Areas | BLM will manage riparian areas, wetlands, and other water sources for multiple use purposes such as wildlife, range, watershed and recreation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | [Measures will be made to improve and encourage the propagation of these important species [bald eagle, peregrine falcon]. BLM will also protect candidate species during critical nesting periods. These species include ferruginous hawks and swainson?s hawks. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | BLM will monitor selected perennial streams for water quality trend to insure that management activities on public lands comply with existing State water quality standards. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Evaluations will consider the impacts of any proposed projects to soil, water, and air resources in the affected area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 |
| Water Rights | BLM will acquire and protect water rights for use on public land and maintain them in cooperation with the State Water Engineer. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 23 | |
| Wetlands | BLM will manage riparian areas, wetlands, and other water sources for multiple use purposes such as wildlife, range, watershed and recreation. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Wetlands | Management actions within floodplains and wetlands will include measures to preserve, protect, and if necessary, restore their natural functions. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 24 | |
| Wilderness | No wood products of any kind may be harvested from public land within the areas recommended for designation as wilderness. This decision will not prohibit thinning of trees for management purposes, i.e., habitat: improvement, watershed, or riparian zone protection, as approved by the State Director on a case-by-case basis. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 38 | |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | BLM will use cooperative management plans to provide an opportunity for wildlife habitat development and improvement. Habitat could be expanded on public lands by converting isolated tracts of rangeland within pheasant range to cropland or irrigated pasture. Cooperative agreements between BLM, UDWR and a lessee who farms the land work effectively. Under such an agreement, the lessee would employ farming practices which provide pheasant habitat and allow public hunting in exchange for farm production values received on the harvested portion. Only areas with suitable soil and adequate water near existing agricultural areas should be considered. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will develop and implement Habitat Management Plans (HMPs) or other more specific wildlife activity plans to protect, improve and maintain all important wildlife habitat. The HMPs will be prepared cooperatively with UDWR to assure that the State?s wildlife management objectives are met. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will improve crucial habitats of present wildlife populations where condition and trend indicates a decline of desirable plant communities. An appropriate wildlife habitat study will be conducted to determine .the condition of these areas. This information will help guide BLM in planning improvement projects. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will improve, maintain and expand those areas suitable for waterfowl and shorebird habitat. Measures could include (1) implementation of appropriate marsh and wetland maintenance and protection through grazing systems, use restrictions, and fencing if appropriate; (2) expansion through appropriate land and water right acquisitions, habitat management plan development and implementation; (3) waterfowl improvement through construction of new reservoirs and modification of suitable range or watershed reservoir projects, vegetation plantings, protected nesting area construction; and (4) open water and loafing area construction through such measures as pothole blasting and dike construction. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 30 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | BLM will protect important wildlife habitat values from disturbing activities by restricting seismic work, well development, new road construction, rights-of-way, organized recreational activities, military exercises, and other disturbing activities excluding maintenance activities in the following areas [and] during the stated time periods [specified in the Plan]. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Rangeland watering facilities will allow for wildlife use. When possible, overflow ponds at water developments will be at least 100 yards from livestock watering sources to allow for a cleaner water source for wildlife. Location of future water developments should minimize conflicts between livestock and wildlife. All livestock fencing projects will allow for movement of wildlife. Design and specifications will be dictated by terrain, kind of livestock and species to be managed. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 31 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM proposes to cooperate fully with peregrine falcon reintroductions into the Timpie Springs and Blue Lake Areas. Surface disturbing activities on public lands adjacent to these reintroduction sites will not be permitted to disturb birds or destroy important habitat. BLM will develop specifics for further management actions in the HMP for the habitat area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will agree to future reintroductions of big game species on the public lands within the Resource Area if the [appropriate] criteria are met [as specified in the Plan] | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to encourage UDWR?s proposed reintroduction/transplants of upland game birds (chukar partridge, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, ring-necked pheasants, etc.) onto suitable habitat within the Resource Area. Specifics for implementing any such proposed reintroduction/transplants shall be developed in the HMP for the habitat area. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 29 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to manage the herd size of the Cedar Mountain Wild Horse Unit at 85 animals (1,020 AUMs) and the Onaqui Mountain Unit at 45 animals (540 AUMs). | BLM Pony Express RMP | 26 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to monitor the reintroduced herd of antelope (150 animals) in southern Rush Valley, Tooele County, to determine if the herd conflicts with any other uses. If monitoring shows that major conflicts exist, close coordination with all affected parties will be undertaken to resolve the problems. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Wildlife | Species/reintroductions | BLM will continue to work cooperatively with UDWR to reintroduce bighorn sheep into the Deep Creek and Stansbury Mountains. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 28 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Incorporate the river's natural and cultural history into designs for riverfront features, public art, education, and signage | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Fisheries | Habitat | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Establish buffers between the river and the built environment | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Preserve and rehabilitate natural river features and functions | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Apply design standards for complementary development and redevelopment in the corridor to support increased visibility and recreational use of the river | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage regional transportation planning to connect communities to the (Jordan) river corridor, emphasizing non-automobile travel | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Riparian Areas | Restore riparian and in-stream habitats | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Balance needs for development, recreation, and public access with river protection | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Replace structural water conveyance devices with alternatives that allow for flood management plus improvements for water quality, recreation, and habitat | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Manage stormwater on site | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Reduce the use of hardscapes and impermeable surfaces in and near the (Jordan River) corridor | Blueprint Jordan River | 15 |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Population viability | Maintain viable [greater sage-grouse] populations within each SGMA. | Conservation Plan for Greater Sage-grouse in Utah | 4 |
| Agriculture | Water quality | Mitigate any potential for soil erosion from agricultural uses and prevent soils from entering streams. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Air Quality | Health | Provide land use alternatives and utilize technologies to protect the general health of all county residents from vehicular and home heating emissions. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Programs | Continue to advocate programs such as carpooling, voluntary no burn days, emission testing, etc., that help to reduce pollution. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Limit airborne particulates by mitigating man-made disturbances along with requiring dust control measures and revegetation for all development and grading projects. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Transportation | Assess all new development requests for opportunities to integrate the use of alternative modes of transportation, including bus, rail, car pool, bike and pedestrian. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Transportation | Coordinate with Wasatch Front Regional Council, Utah Transit Authority and other transportation organizations to assure that land-use and transportation decisions will improve regional air quality. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Accomplish goals and have effective communication by exploring partnerships. Convey the importance of the historical character and sense of place within the community, to Salt Lake County, and Kennecott through consistent, periodic communication. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Apply for status as a Certified Local Government. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Consider local and community environmental objectives in regional transportation planning. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Educate residents through the historic preservation committee by holding workshops on rehabilitation, financial incentives, and other information. Establish a clearinghouse of information on preservation, loans, grants, construction and renovation, and landscaping. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Establish a historic preservation committee to oversee the preservation ordinance and to educate, advocate, and provide assistance in historic preservation efforts. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Coordination/education | Strengthen Copperton?s sense of place by exploring partnerships to achieve community projects. Create amenities such as planting street trees, and installing thematic street lighting that supports and strengthens Historic Copperton?s residential areas. Designate and improve the gateway to the Copperton Historic District to create a pleasant experience at the key entry point. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Create a local historic preservation ordinance. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Create design guidelines and encourage their use in the rehabilitation of historic buildings and design of new construction within the historic core so that it is in harmony with the historic character of Copperton. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Explore implementation of conservation zoning within the historic town center. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| Cultural Resources | Preservation | Update the boundaries created in the 1986 National Register nomination. | Copperton Township General Plan | 41 |
| 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 |
| Fire Management | Ecology | Management strategies within the study area should include management and maintenance of vegetation and fire breaks, as well as public education, to mitigate some of the wildfire hazards. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 28 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Preserve adequate access to streams for open space, wildlife habitat areas, and flood-control maintenance. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Buffer/zoning | Protect life and property from the increased risk of flooding through application of stream setbacks, FEMA flood zone requirements and careful review of development along streams and at the mouths of drainages. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Natural function | Protect and enhance vegetation along all natural drainages to stabilize and slow the erosion process and protect the water body. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Erosion | Stabilize all areas disturbed by grading or excavation as quickly as possible to reduce erosion potential. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Erosion | Ensure that grading and excavation disturbances associated with development do not accelerate erosion. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Develop, maintain and regularly update emergency plans for earthquake response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Ensure that all citizens have access to information regarding emergency preparedness and response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Ensure that land use activities do not increase the risk from geologic hazards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Fit development to the existing terrain, to prevent or reduce all adverse impacts in hazardous areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Protect life and property by prohibiting development on slopes greater than 30%. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require new development within hillside areas of the community to comply with the requirements of the Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone and the Foothills and Canyons Site Development and Design Standards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Require site-specific geologic assessment and engineering prior to construction in known geologic and seismic hazard areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 35 |
| Land Use | Hazardous waste management | Ensure that levels of contaminants in soil meet current standards for development. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Productivity | Continue to allow the productive dry farming operations on Kennecott reserve properties to help provide a large open space buffer, maintain the productive use of these lands and insure security. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 |
| Mining | Encourage the continued open dialogue and cooperation between Kennecott Land Company (the land development arm of Kennecott Utah Copper) and the community so that issues and concerns between the company and the community can be worked out. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Insure that high impact areas provide sufficient noise buffers to reduce impacts on residential areas, especially along the south and west side of the community. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Minimize the adverse impacts of the mine on adjacent uses by maintaining adequate landscape buffer areas, screening and visual appearance of buildings. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Participate with Kennecott Land and The Nature Conservancy of Utah or other conservancy organizations to help in the planning of future projects, preserve the Oquirrh Mountains ecosystem, and develop strategies to conserve resources and land. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Recognize Copperton?s unique relationship with Kennecott Utah Copper and the mining heritage of the area. Encourage productive industrial development to continue in appropriate places. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Mining | Work with Salt Lake County and Utah Economic Development Divisions and Kennecott to encourage satellite businesses that Kennecott does business with to develop facilities in the Copperton area to better serve the company and community needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 72 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Coordination/partnerships | Establish public and private partnerships to provide the necessary parks and recreation investments anticipated as development proposals on the vast Kennecott Utah Copper properties are solidified. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Provide the necessary funding for acquisition and construction of new parks, trailheads, recreation facilities, and open space through general tax, bonds, federal, state, and county funding sources, and other means, consistent with the County?s budget needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Place a priority on locating neighborhood parks in conjunction with school sites and civic facilities. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Develop parks in accordance to the design standards and policies identified in the Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Encourage community, public and private organizations to support the development, maintenance, and operation of existing and future recreational facilities. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Promote the development of community gardens in locations that can benefit residents, are conducive to agriculture, and will maintain compatibility with surrounding uses. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Provide parks, open space, trails systems and recreational facilities for Copperton Township residents; offer safe and efficient recreation programs and activities that meet needs and desires. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Periodically review demographic projections and land use plans in order to anticipate future recreation and facilities and program service needs and strive to meet or exceed the recreational standards established in the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Develop multiple-use trails in accordance to the standards and policies identified in the Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide neighborhood trail and bicycle connections to transit stops, arterial streets, commercial areas, schools, civic centers, and other user-specific destinations. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Pursue the development of a ?Rails to Trails? program in order to provide multiple-use trails along abandoned or vacated rail corridors. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Work to provide multi-functional ?grade-separated crossings? such as bridges, roadway underpasses and other means at selected locations for pedestrians and bicyclists. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Work with the surrounding communities of the region to ensure pedestrian trail and bicycle route connectivity across jurisdictional lines. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Accommodate the needs of equestrian enthusiasts by providing a trail system and connections to the foothill and mountain areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 47 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Apply best practice methods to ensure that water resources are not depleted. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Encourage future developments to utilize alternative sources of water for non-culinary applications. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Encourage the use of native vegetation and also low water vegetation in residential and commercial developments. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Maintain and improve water quality as development occurs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Minimize the polluting effects from all development activities through sensitive site design and available technologies. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Restrict development where soil conditions might pose problems to foundations or could impact groundwater quality. | Copperton Township General Plan | 33 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Incorporate planning and design solutions for all future development proposals to preserve, protect and/or improve wildlife habitats within the mapped ?Critical? and ?High Value Winter Range? areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Protect critical wildlife habitats and historic movement corridors needed for wildlife nesting, calving, wintering and breeding. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Protect, maintain and where possible enhance wildlife access to stream channels, other water features and riparian habitats. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Increase public awareness of Copperton?s abundant and varied wildlife populations and their habitat needs. | Copperton Township General Plan | 32 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Guidelines for the use of renewable sources of energy should be developed and adopted. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Development will be adapted to the existing terrain in order to protect public health and safety and to minimize risks from known geologic and other hazards. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Coordinate with applicable agencies to enforce regulations that minimize the impacts of development and prevent damage to natural systems and sensitive lands. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Land use and development patterns that incorporate nature into the built environment and increase public awareness and responsibility toward the natural environment will be pursued. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Significant vistas and landscapes that have special visual and aesthetic qualities will be preserved and maintained. Important view corridors and open areas in the canyon will be maintained through sensitive site and building design. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Native landscaping suited to the canyon environment will be encouraged to make efficient use of water resources. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | The community?s groundwater supply must be protected from significant depletion or hazardous contamination. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Human interference into critical wildlife habitat areas will be minimized, including discouraging the feeding of wildlife. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Critical and historic wildlife movement corridors will be protected, and, where possible enhanced by access to water features and riparian habitats. | Emigration Canyon Township General Plan | 6 |
| Air Quality | Great Salt Lake | Reduce fugitive dust emissions from exposed lake beds. 1) Coordinate with DSPR and DWR to manage illegal motor vehicle traffic on dirt roads around the lake and on the exposed lake beds. | GSL CMP | 3-9 |
| Air Quality | Great Salt Lake | Promote compliance with emissions standards for industries that use GSL resources. 1) Coordinate with DAQ to evaluate emissions of all criteria pollutants associate with proposed projects and work with DAQ to identify appropriate mitigation strategies to offset major emissions. 2) Coordinate with DAQ to evaluate whether industries with FFSL leases meet DAQ emission standards. | GSL CMP | 3-9 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Minimize impacts to the scenic values of GSL. 1) Consider visual impacts of a proposed project on the visual character of GSL when considering new actions. 2) Consider how additional lighting from a proposed project would impact GSL resources and visitor experience. 3) When considering a proposed project, identify strategies to mitigate impacts from surface-disturbing activities as appropriate. 4)Coordinate with local cities, counties, and other landowners to minimize impacts to visual resources outside of the meander line, but within the GSL viewshed. | GSL CMP | 3-21 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance of cultural resource protection on sovereign lands. 1) Support SHPO on the management of known cultural resource sites on sovereign lands. 2) Consider how future projects using state funds would affect historic properties, according to UTAH CODE ? 8-8-404. 3) Adhere to UTAH CODE ? 9-9-402 and UTAH ADMIN. CODE R230-1 regarding the discovery of human remains on sovereign lands. 4) Consult with SHPO regarding how future proposed uses may impact cultural resource sites, as needed.ize the importance of cultural resource protection on sovereign lands. | GSL CMP | 3-25 |
| Cultural Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance of paleontological resource protection on sovereign lands. 1) Support UGS on the management of known fossil locations on sovereign lands. 2) Consider how future projects using state funds would affect paleontological resources, according to UTAH CODE ? 79-3-508. 3) Consult with UGS regarding how future proposed uses may impact paleontological resources, as needed. | GSL CMP | 3-25 |
| Economic Considerations | Allow for commercial and industrial uses while protecting and sustaining long-term health of GSL resources. 1) Authorize mineral extraction and oil, gas, and hydrocarbon development, brine shrimp harvesting, and aquaculture under multiple-use, sustained yield principles under UTAH CODE ? 65A-2-1. 2) Coordinate with USACE, DAQ, DWQ, DWRi, and DOGM to evaluate resource impacts of a proposed use and identify necessary permits. 3) Consult with DWRe, DWR, local cities, and counties to minimize resource impacts associated with permit authorization. 4) Coordinate with resource extraction industries on potential mitigation strategies as new information becomes available regarding the industry?s impacts to other GSL resources. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-26 | |
| Economic Considerations | Promote the development of quantitative metrics to determine the values of GSL noncommodity resources. 1) Recognize the importance of determining accurate valuation of GSL?s resources in coordination with UGS, DSPR, Utah Office of Tourism, DOGM, DWQ, DWR, and cities and counties. Specifically, resource valuations could include recreation (e.g., bird watching, waterfowl hunting, and boating), mineral extraction, and oil, gas, and hydrocarbon production. | GSL CMP | 3-26 | |
| Energy Resources | Great Salt Lake | Allow for new oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leasing activities that are consistent with the long-term sustainability of GSL, according to UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8. 1) Consider new leases according to oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leasing categories and leasing processes outlined in the MLP. 2) Consider how proposed oil, gas, and hydrocarbon projects would impact GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to incorporate best management practices in new leases. 4) Coordinate with permitting and management agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider future oil, gas, and hydrocarbon projects. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-18 |
| Fisheries | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support a range of salinity levels that support the brine shrimp population, the associated food web, and the brine shrimp harvesting industry. 1) Coordinate with DWRi and UGS to evaluate how authorization of water rights applications would affect salinity of GSL at a range of lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate impacts to brine shrimp populations at a range of lake levels when reviewing new permits/leases and permit/lease renewals. 3) Identify research opportunities with DWQ, DWR, and UGS for studying the effects of lake salinity levels and water quality on brine shrimp. 4) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 5) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine shrimp and the water column. 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 7) Coordinate with the managing, permitting, and intersecting entities to maintain ideal salinity levels for brine shrimp resources. 8) Continue to partner with UGS to monitor salinity levels and DWR to monitor brine shrimp populations. | GSL CMP | 3-12 |
| Flood Plains and River Terraces | Great Salt Lake | Consider how changes in land use above and below the meander line could have adverse impacts on GSL resources and development. 1) Coordinate with management agencies listed above to understand how proposed changes in land use would impact GSL resources and surrounding communities. 2) Coordinate with local cities, counties, and land managers that have jurisdiction of lands above the meander line to help ensure future development would not have adverse effect on GSL resources or that GSL would have adverse effects on future development. 3) Support FEMA determination* that residential and commercial development should not occur below 4,217 feet; this would be done to minimize impacts to GSL resources and infrastructure during periods of high lake levels. | GSL CMP | 3-19 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Promote the importance of access to GSL marinas from land and open water. 1) Coordinate with and support DSPR to dredge channels, as needed, to provide passages for boats from existing marinas. 2) Coordinate with DSPR to sustain access to marinas from land and open water. 3) Together with DSPR, DWR, and local cities, counties, and marina users, identify marina access issues and concerns at a range of lake levels and support improvements for access. | GSL CMP | 3-23 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Protect GSL resources from adverse impacts resulting from transportation infrastructure. 1) Consider how proposed transportation projects would impact GSL resources through review of agencyled analysis. 2) Coordinate with responsible agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider future transportation projects. 3) Coordinate with DWQ to address potential water quality impacts associated with runoff from transportation projects, which could affect the GSL ecosystem. 4) Coordinate with USACE and Union Pacific regarding a potential increase in boat access to the North Arm with the future modification of the Northern Railroad Causeway. | GSL CMP | 3-28 |
| Land Access | Great Salt Lake | Minimize damage to transportation infrastructure from GSL. 1) Coordinate with responsible agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of future transportation projects. 2) Participate in transportation planning efforts with UDOT, Wasatch Front Regional Council, and the Bear River Association of Governments that promote safe and effective transportation routes that minimize impacts to GSL resources. 3) Encourage transportation and residential and commercial-related infrastructure development to occur above 4,217 feet (FEMA 100-year floodplain). | GSL CMP | 3-28 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Consider how changes in land use above and below the meander line could have adverse impacts on GSL resources and development. 1) Coordinate with management agencies listed above to understand how proposed changes in land use would impact GSL resources and surrounding communities. 2) Coordinate with local cities, counties, and land managers that have jurisdiction of lands above the meander line to help ensure future development would not have adverse effect on GSL resources or that GSL would have adverse effects on future development. 3) Support FEMA determination* that residential and commercial development should not occur below 4,217 feet; this would be done to minimize impacts to GSL resources and infrastructure during periods of high lake levels. | GSL CMP | 3-19 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Recognize how human modifications to GSL impact the GSL ecosystem. 1) Together with DWR, Davis County, and Union Pacific, evaluate the use of dikes, berms, and dredging to mitigate impacts of low lake levels on industry and ecosystems. 2) Support continued research by all entities listed above to understand the impacts of human modifications on the GSL ecosystem due to dikes and causeways. 3) Request site-specific analysis assessments from applicants that consider the impacts of a proposed causeway or dike on the GSL ecosystem. 4) Consider how proposed causeway projects and mineral extraction projects would impact GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. 5) Coordinate with responsible agencies and entities to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of causeway construction or modification 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-20 |
| Land Use | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the potential impacts of geologic navigational hazards to human health and safety. 1) Support and coordinate with UGS on further understanding of potential adverse impacts of shifts in tectonic tilt and how the shifts could impact the current slope of lake bed and floodplain. 2) Support Division of Emergency Management and local city and county efforts to prepare, recover from, respond to, and mitigate geologic hazards in and around GSL. 3) Support and coordinate with DSPR, UGS, and local cities and counties to develop educational material and public notification tools that disclose geologic hazards. 4) Minimize the adverse impacts of windblown ice on lake monitoring structures through support and coordination with USGS, UGS, and DWR. 5)Minimize the adverse impacts of windblown ice on other infrastructure through support and coordination with DSPR and UDOT. | GSL CMP | 3-21 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | FFSL will manage GSL and its resources under multipleuse, sustained yield principles (UTAH CODE ? 65A-2-1) by implementing legislative policies (UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8) and accommodating public and private uses to the extent that those policies and uses do not substantially impair Public Trust resources or the lake?s sustainability. | GSL CMP | 1-1 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | Uses at GSL include preservation of the lake; availability of brines to lake extraction industries; wildlife protection; protection of recreational facilities; safe boating; availability of appropriate areas for extraction of brine, minerals, chemicals, and petrochemicals to aid the state?s economy; maintenance and protection of marshlands, rookeries, and wildlife refuges; and public access to the lake for recreation, hunting, and fishing (UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8). | GSL CMP | 1-1 |
| Land Use | Multiple Use, Sustained Yield | Protect and sustain GSL resources while providing for multiple uses. 1) Request site-specific impact analyses, as deemed appropriate by the FFSL Division Director, for a proposed project. Site-specific analyses required by other permitting agencies may provide FFSL within adequate level of project-specific analysis. 2) Consider the range of ecosystem effects resulting from a proposed project (including cumulative effects) through consultation with all management and intersecting agencies listed above. 3) Consider and evaluate the cumulative impacts of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects on the GSL ecosystem through consultation with all agencies listed above. 4) When appropriate, upon receipt of a proposed project, identify mitigation efforts in cooperation with all management and intersecting agencies listed above to reduce impacts to and/or benefit the GSL ecosystem. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to promote compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-4 |
| Law Enforcement | Protect GSL resources from impacts resulting from OHV trespassing. 1) Together with the BLM, DSPR, and DWR, identify areas where OHV trespassing is a problem and develop methods to prohibit illegal access. 2) Coordinate with industry groups and landowners on the authorized locations of OHV use on private land around GSL. 3) Coordinate with intersecting agencies to develop educational material and enforcement strategies that would discourage OHV users from trespassing. | GSL CMP | 3-23 | |
| Law Enforcement | Protect GSL resources from adverse impacts resulting from OHV trespassing. 1) Identify areas where OHV trespassing is a problem; coordinate and develop methods to prevent illegal access. 2) Coordinate with BLM, DSPR, DWR, HAFB, and adjacent county sheriff departments to develop enforcement strategies that would discourage OHV users from trespassing. | GSL CMP | 3-30 | |
| Law Enforcement | Recognize the importance of search-and-rescue access. 1) Coordinate with DSPR and UGS regarding the identification of bioherms that could cause navigational hazards. 2) Support DSPR and counties? sheriff?s departments (search-and-rescue teams) in facilitating rescues. 3) Coordinate with search-and-rescue entities to identify areas or infrastructure within the lake that have lake level access constraints, including marinas, and identify how to operate safely around constraints. | GSL CMP | 3-30 | |
| Livestock and Grazing | Provide grazing opportunities that promote the long-term health of GSL land available for grazing. 1) Coordinate with DWQ, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, and Natural Resources Conservation Service to encourage and support best management practices. 2) Manage grazing opportunities and potential conflicts of grazing with other GSL resources. 3) Allow grazing that helps reduce growth and spread of noxious weeds (e.g., Phragmites sp.). 4) Promote research and methods to yield sustainable foraging habitat. 5) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate the impacts to wildlife, including nesting bird habitat, associated with proposed grazing. | GSL CMP | 3-27 | |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Allow for new mineral leasing activities that are consistent with the long-term sustainability of GSL, according to UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8(b). 1) New leases subject to suspended or modified operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing leases and permits may not be subject to this management strategy. New leases and permits? may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or lower (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]). 2) Follow guidance for mineral leasing process outlined in the MLP. 3) Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. 4) Consider new leasing activities in areas determined to have potential for leasing, as specified by the mineral leasing categories in the MLP. 5) Consider how proposed mineral extraction projects would affect GSL resources through review of site-specific analysis. Site-specific analyses required by other permitting agencies may provide FFSL with an adequate level of project-specific analysis. 6) Coordinate with permitting and management agencies to determine the appropriate level of involvement in processes that consider impacts of future mineral extraction projects. 7) Coordinate with permitting and intersecting agencies to identify effective lease stipulations and/or mitigation strategies. 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317) | GSL CMP | 3-17 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Manage at extremely high and low lake levels to reduce impacts to ecosystems, industry, and infrastructure. 1) Support DWRe pumping activities when the lake reaches 4,208 feet to mitigate impacts to GSL resources. 2) Coordinate with industry to monitor and maintain breach near Strong?s Knob to facilitate pumping. 3) New leases subject to suspended operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing operators may not besubject to this management strategy. 4) New leases and permits may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or less (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]) | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize and better understand the effects of mineral extraction on GSL salt balance. 1) Consider how the salt balance would be impacted at low lake levels when issuing new leases in coordination with DOGM, DWRe, and UGS. 2) Promote research efforts by USGS and UGS to quantify GSL salt inflow and outflow. 3) Encourage research to understand sustainable levels of mineral extraction for GSL. 4) Encourage salt balance modeling analysis for new mineral leasing proposals, as appropriate. | GSL CMP | 3-16 |
| Noxious Weeds | Target and treat invasive weed species (especially Phragmites) and eradicate colonizing invasive species in GSL wetlands. 1) Identify concentrations and dispersal vectors for Phragmites during receding lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR, USFWS, local cities and counties, and other landowners or managers adjacent to GSL on weed control and removal programs. 3) Develop annual weed management objectives and facilitate their implementation. 4) Aggressively eradicate colonizing invasive plant species. Eradication efforts should focus on areas where there are high-quality and/or numerous resource values (e.g., wetlands and recreation opportunities). | GSL CMP | 3-8 | |
| Predator Control | Recognize the need to maintain the isolation of nesting and breeding habitats for bird species of regional/global importance. 1) Coordinate with DWR and USFWS to determine effects of permitting action on rookeries. 2) Coordinate with DWR to implement activities that protect rookery habitat. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 4) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on island rookeries and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to bird habitat. | GSL CMP | 3-16 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Protect recreation users from navigational hazards on GSL. 1) Support and coordinate with DSPR, DWR, UGS, and USGS to develop educational materials and public notification tools that disclose navigational hazards. | GSL CMP | 3-24 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Recognize the importance of bird watching and waterfowl hunting and primary contact (e.g., swimming) and secondary contact (e.g., boating, paddle boarding) recreation as multiple-use components of GSL resources. 1) Support and coordinate with DSPR, DWR, DWQ, USFWS, and local cities and counties to provide for high-quality recreation opportunities, including bird watching and waterfowl hunting opportunities and safe primary and secondary contact recreation opportunities. 2) Consider how management actions impact high-quality recreation opportunities at varying lake levels. 3) Consider the impact of invasive species (e.g., Phragmites) on boating opportunities. 4) Maintain water quality sufficient to protect the recreation beneficial uses designated to GSL. 5) Identify areas where recreation opportunities may be impacted by other uses. | GSL CMP | 3-24 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Understand the components and linkages that define a sustainable GSL ecosystem. 1) Support agency management and permitting actions that strive to attain key ecological targets/benchmarks developed in future peer-reviewed research. Support research by and coordinate efforts with all agencies listed above to better understand the minimum lake level required to support the GSL ecosystem. 2) Identify constraints and opportunities to achieve ecological targets and/or benchmarks established in future peer reviewed research. 3) Identify and support research that further defines GSL ecological condition. | GSL CMP | 3-3 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | GSL is a unique and complex ecosystem of regional and hemispherical importance. Sustainable use of GSL?s natural resources will ensure that the ecological health (e.g., water quality, shoreline condition, salinity, aquatic organisms, wildlife, wetlands), scenic attributes, extractive industries (e.g., minerals, brine shrimp, microorganisms), and recreation opportunities (e.g., bird watching, hunting, sailing) will be maintained into the future. FFSL will coordinate, as necessary, to ensure that he management of these resources is based on a holistic view of the lake-wide ecosystem?including the use of adaptive management, as necessary?to ensure long-term sustainability. Responsible stewardship of GSL?s resources will provide lasting benefit to the Public Trust. | GSL CMP | Xii |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Manage at extremely high and low lake levels to reduce impacts to ecosystems, industry, and infrastructure. 1) Support DWRe pumping activities when the lake reaches 4,208 feet to mitigate impacts to GSL resources. 2) Coordinate with industry to monitor and maintain breach near Strong?s Knob to facilitate pumping. 3) New leases subject to suspended operation when the lake is trending down and reaches 4,193* feet in October. Note: existing operators may not besubject to this management strategy. 4) New leases and permits may not be authorized if the lake is at 4,193 feet or less (UTAH CODE 65A-6-5[1]) | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Include a term in new and renewal leases stating that operations may be suspended or modified if the lake level reaches 4,193 feet on October 15. | GSL CMP | 3-5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Consider water quality in all management actions. 1) When considering new permits or permit renewals, coordinate leasing with DWQ-required permits (UPES, general, stormwater, and the associated antidegradation review) where applicable, including research on negative water quality impacts associated with actions. 2) Support DWQ to establish numeric criteria for mercury, nutrients, and other contaminants as they are identified and as they have the potential to impact GSL recreation and aquatic life beneficial uses. 3) Communicate new project proposals to DWQ to help ensure impacts do not affect compliance with the existing narrative standard and the numeric selenium standard. 4) Continue to support DWQ's efforts to assess the water quality condition of the lake and trackcontaminants of concern. 5) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Maintain existing facilities and consider other opportunities to improve connectivity between bays in a manner that supports FFSL?s multiple-use, sustained yield mandate. 1) Support efforts to improve circulation between bays in a manner that supports food webs dependent on brine flies and brine shrimp, brine shrimp cysts, and current mineral extraction. 2) Understand the hydrologic effects of the Northern Railroad Causeway culverts and how proposed modifications to the causeway would impact salinity in the North and South arms. 3) Promote maintenance of structures to ensure bidirectional flow in Northern Railroad Causeway culverts. 4) Enforce agreement with Union Pacific to maintain or increase circulation through culverts or other structures. 5) Together with USACE, consider proposals to increase circulation in the lake in a manner that supports FFSL?s multiple-use, sustained yield mandate. 6) Continue and expand GSL salt cycle research by DWRe, UGS, and USGS, including efforts to quantify volume of salt and other minerals within various parts of the lake at different lake levels (e.g., quantify volume of precipitated salt and other minerals in the North Arm, quantify volume of salt and other minerals in solution in various arms of GSL, quantify volume of salts retained in evaporation ponds, etc.). 7) Support research by DWR, UGS, DWRe, and USGS on the role of lake circulation on the occurrence of the DBL, brine shrimp populations, bioherms, and water quality at varying lake levels. 8) Coordinate with Davis County to help ensure safe operation and good maintenance of the Davis County Causeway. 9) Continue to support DWQ's efforts to assess the water quality condition of the lake and track contaminants of concern. 10) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). | GSL CMP | 3-7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Understand the impacts of climate change on GSL lake level and water chemistry. 1)Consider emerging climate change research and findings from the appropriate resources and agencies when making future management decisions. 2) Support research to evaluate the impacts of climate change on GSL lake level and water chemistry. | GSL CMP | 3-11 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support a range of salinity levels that support the brine shrimp population, the associated food web, and the brine shrimp harvesting industry. 1) Coordinate with DWRi and UGS to evaluate how authorization of water rights applications would affect salinity of GSL at a range of lake levels. 2) Coordinate with DWR to evaluate impacts to brine shrimp populations at a range of lake levels when reviewing new permits/leases and permit/lease renewals. 3) Identify research opportunities with DWQ, DWR, and UGS for studying the effects of lake salinity levels and water quality on brine shrimp. 4) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 5) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine shrimp and the water column. 6) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 7) Coordinate with the managing, permitting, and intersecting entities to maintain ideal salinity levels for brine shrimp resources. 8) Continue to partner with UGS to monitor salinity levels and DWR to monitor brine shrimp populations. | GSL CMP | 3-12 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Great Salt Lake | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of a range of salinity levels that supports the brine fly populations and the associated food web. 1) Promote research (e.g., USGS, DWR, and DWQ) on the drivers of the brine fly trophic web, including nutrient loading effects on brine shrimp populations, brine fly populations, phytoplankton, and bioherms. 2) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 3) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. 4) Continue to support DWQ?s efforts to monitor contaminants of concern in both brine flies and the water column. | GSL CMP | 3-13 |
| Wetlands | Maintain GSL water quality to help ensure wetland health and beneficial uses. 1) When considering new permits or lease renewals, coordinate with USACE and DWQ to help ensure impacts do not affect compliance with applicable water quality standards. 2) Coordinate with BLM, DWR, DSPR, and other land managers to discuss potential impacts to wetlands resulting from a proposed project. 3) Continue to support DWQ to assess and protect the aquatic life beneficial uses of GSL wetlands. 4) Coordinate with DWQ issuance of water quality certifications pursuant to Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and Utah Water Quality Act (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R19-5-101?124). 5) Continue to support DWQ in identifying water quality standards for wetlands. | GSL CMP | 3-8 | |
| Wetlands | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of a wetland mosaic. 1) Consider implications to wetland hydrology and connectivity when evaluating permits on sovereign lands. 2) Support wetland managers as they seek to achieve optimum duration and seasonality of inundation. 3) Support efforts by DWR in working with DWRi to acquire water rights for specific areas of ecological importance such as wetlands and WMAs. 4) Support and encourage wetland protection efforts adjacent to sovereign lands. Assist with development of a list of priority wetlands that could be protected where protection efforts would benefit the GSL ecosystem | GSL CMP | 3-9 | |
| Wetlands | Understand the extent and condition of wetlands around GSL. 1) Foster collaboration between research and management entities, including DWR, DWQ, USFWS, and UGS, on future assessment and mapping of impounded and unimpounded wetlands. 2) Coordinate with research and management entities to identify wetland stressors. 3) Continue to support DWQ to assess and protect the aquatic life beneficial uses of GSL wetlands. | GSL CMP | 3-9 | |
| Wetlands | Coordinate with other landowners and managers to support upland wetland habitats in other nesting and foraging areas near and associated with GSL (e.g., Cutler Reservoir, Utah Lake, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, and Bear River). | GSL CMP | 3-14 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of viable populations of nesting bird species of regional/global importance and the habitats that support them. 1) Coordinate and encourage the maintenance of a diversity of habitats and adequate food supply that support nesting birds. 2) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 3) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on nesting bird populations and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to nesting bird habitat. 4) Support inventory, monitoring, and research of nesting bird populations through DWR. 5) Support DWQ and USGS research and monitoring of water quality impacts to nesting bird populations. 6) Support DWQ in maintaining water quality sufficient to protect the waterfowl, shorebird, and wildlife beneficial uses for GSL. 7) Minimize disturbance to nesting habitat areas by coordinating permitting and land management activities with DWR. 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 9) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. | GSL CMP | 3-14 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the importance and support the sustainability of viable populations of migratory bird species of regional/global significance and the habitats that support them. 1) Coordinate with DWR to encourage the maintenance of a diversity of habitats and adequate food supply that support migratory stopover, staging, and wintering birds. 2) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 3) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on migratory bird populations and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to migratory bird habitat. 4) Support DWQ in maintaining water quality sufficient to protect the waterfowl, shorebird, and wildlife beneficial uses for GSL. 5) Support DWQ and USGS research and monitoring of water quality impacts to migratory bird populations. 6) Support inventory, monitoring, and research of migrating bird populations through DWR. 7) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with Utah Water Quality Act regulations (UTAH ADMIN. CODE R317). 8) Coordinate with DWQ to help ensure compliance with numeric criteria for pollutants of concern as they are established. | GSL CMP | 3-15 |
| Wildlife | Habitat | Recognize the need to maintain the isolation of nesting and breeding habitats for bird species of regional/global importance. 1) Coordinate with DWR and USFWS to determine effects of permitting action on rookeries. 2) Coordinate with DWR to implement activities that protect rookery habitat. 3) Coordinate with DOGM to help ensure compliance with permitting rules that pertain to bird habitat. 4) Consider the impact of recreational activities (hunting and boating) on island rookeries and coordinate with DWR to minimize impacts to bird habitat. | GSL CMP | 3-15 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Assess Current Conditions Related to Mineral Resource Extraction and Known Reserves/Balances 1) Describe historical mineral extraction activities as of the date of the MLP. 2) Document existing mineral extraction activities, including location, type of mineral extracted, uses for extracted minerals, and quantity of minerals being extracted. 3) Identify mineral balances (i.e., salt balances) based on current conditions and known reserves of oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources and promote their sustainable yield and mitigation of effects on the environment. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Integrate Mineral Resource Planning with Other Resource Planning 1) Create a framework for long-term policy direction for minerals management that also has the flexibility to respond to the dynamic character of GSL. 2) Integrate management of GSL?s mineral resources with the lake?s other resources so that all resources are managed for the health and integrity of the GSL ecosystem. 3) Identify compatible uses and conflicts among mineral resource development and other resources on GSL and try to identify possible resolutions for conflicts. 4) Align with and use the GSL Lake Level Matrix and management strategies outlined in the 2013 GSL CMP when considering new applications. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Plan for Leasing and Efficient Development of Mineral Resources 1) Classify areas of GSL that are suitable for mineral extraction and areas that are to be excluded from mineral extraction. 2) Provide for the orderly leasing of mineral resources to existing and potential mineral lessees. 3) Ensure fair compensation to the state from development and extraction of GSL?s various mineral resources. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Establish Transparent Mineral Leasing Application Process 1) Initiate the development of a FFSL permitting process that the winning bidder is required to complete once the winning bidder has been notified of the award. 2) Ensure that the applicant knows about the various permits, applications, etc., required by other State of Utah and federal government agencies. 3) Allow for coordination and review of a proposed project by pertinent state and federal agencies. 4) Allow opportunities for project-specific analysis, as deemed appropriate. 5) Provide opportunities for public comment on proposed projects as deemed appropriate and pursuant to division rules. 6) Provide applicant with a record of decision. | GSL MLP | 2-1 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Identify Data Gaps in Existing Knowledge Related to Mineral Extraction 1) Provide a summary of areas requiring further study, particularly as they relate to existing and potential impacts from mineral extraction on mineral balances, lake levels, water quality, and habitat degradation. | GSL MLP | 2-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Assert Role of FFSL as a Manager of State-owned Lands 1) Clearly define sovereign lands for resource users, the public, and other resource management agencies. 2) Act as lead agency in coordinating GSL-related activities, as outlined in UTAH CODE ? 65A-10-8. | GSL MLP | 2-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Guide Opportunities for Mineral Leasing in Appropriate Locations throughout Great Salt Lake | GSL MLP | 5-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Understand Impacts of Proposed Projects on Great Salt Lake Resources | GSL MLP | 5-2 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Plan for Short- and Long-term Impacts of Mineral Operations on Great Salt Lake | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Understand and Plan for Long-term Impacts of Causeways and Dikes | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize Threats to Mineral Development Sites from Natural Hazards and Plan to Reduce Exposure to Hazards | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Recognize Threats to Mineral Development Sites from Natural Hazards and Plan to Reduce Exposure to Hazards | GSL MLP | 5-6 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Establish Procedures for Mineral Leasing Permitting Process | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Balance the Interests between the Public Trust and Private Entities to Encourage Efficient Use of Mineral Resources | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Ensure Prudent Operations during Mineral Operations and Appropriate Reclamation after Mineral Developments Cease | GSL MLP | 5-7 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Coordinate Management, Permitting, and Research Activities between Applicable Local, State, and Federal Agencies Surrounding Great Salt Lake. | GSL MLP | 5-8 |
| Mineral Resources | Great Salt Lake | Enhance Coordination Efforts between FFSL and other Government Agencies | GSL MLP | 5-8 |
| Agriculture | Animal management | Animal husbandry operations are buffered from adjoining uses, where necessary, to mitigate smell, insects, and | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Development is limited to that necessary to the agricultural operations on the site. Permitted agricultural retail commercial activities (fruit stands, etc.) take up no more than 10% of the open space area. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Alternative energy resources can provide substantial and reliable energy supplies. | Kearns Township General Plan | 86 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | An energy plan ensures that energy efficiency is included in all aspects of design and construction in new development as well as revitalization projects. | Kearns Township General Plan | 79 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Because buildings use one third of all energy consumed in the US and two thirds of all electricity (DOE 1997), using ?green? building design can have a major impact on the amount of energy a community consumes. | Kearns Township General Plan | 81 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Communities need to adopt strategies and programs targeted toward infrastructure that reduces energy consumption. | Kearns Township General Plan | 81 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all the processes associated with production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery. Embodied energy for a project may be minimized by the following: a) Use local resources (within 500 miles), whose energy consumption is lower than for transported materials. b) Conserve and restore old buildings. c) Reuse old building materials: The reuse of building materials commonly saves about 95% of embodied energy. d) Use recycled products: The use of recycled products may lower embodied energy if reprocessing and transportation energy consumption is low. | Kearns Township General Plan | 80 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Encourage community and regional participation in resource conservation programs in order to reduce demand for water, sewer, solid waste, road, and energy facilities, thereby reducing the need for costly future facility investment. | Kearns Township General Plan | 8 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Public transportation provides energy efficient travel for large numbers of people. | Kearns Township General Plan | 85 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Assemble an energy advisory committee to develop an overview of issues and recommendations with respect to community energy-use patterns and transportation. | Kearns Township General Plan | 172 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Financial budgets of a community are one of the primary limitations to implementing a community energy plan. . . . Financial support is available through many different organizations including agencies from state government. | Kearns Township General Plan | 78 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Other innovative policies to include in an energy plan relate to user fees, alternative energy production, and regional cooperation. | Kearns Township General Plan | 77 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | People provided with facts on energy sustainability have a better understanding of energy-related issues and are more likely to become part of the solution. | Kearns Township General Plan | 78 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Population growth and transportation should parallel in a sustainable energy planned community. ...it is necessary to form a sub-committee of the Energy Task Force (ETF) to address energy efficiency specific to transportation. This sub-committee should recommend strategies for sustainability and automobile reductions for their community. The Transportation ETF can also suggest a variety of transportation choices that reduce dependence on unpredictable petroleum sources. | Kearns Township General Plan | 83 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Sustainable communities use road and parking lot design strategies that reduce VMT and environmental impact. | Kearns Township General Plan | 84 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Utah communities can join the nation?s leaders in sustainability by implementing progressive zoning and building energy codes. | Kearns Township General Plan | 77 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Public acquisition efforts focus on sites that are at risk for development for other than recreation uses. | Kearns Township General Plan | 142 |
| Land Use | Open space | Natural Open Space: Grading and vegetation removal is limited to that necessary for flood control, invasive species control, and construction of passive recreational facilities like trails and paths. Paving is disallowed, unless necessary for trailhead parking, hardened trails, and similar purposes. If utilities are allowed in natural open space, all facilities are placed underground. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Open space | Development standards for recreational open space are driven by the objectives of the community?s parks and recreation plan. | Kearns Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Concentrate development in nodes in canyon areas to reduce the impact on sensitive areas. | Kearns Township General Plan | 49 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Preserve canyon accessibility through corridor design. | Kearns Township General Plan | 51 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Use an existing park facilities assessment and public input to develop community-specific park standards and determine capital needs for future facilities. | Kearns Township General Plan | 11 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Park development should coordinate with existing and planned trail networks, improving regional and community connectivity through trails, greenway connections, and paths. | Kearns Township General Plan | 142 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Minimize water use in buildings and for landscape irrigation to reduce the impact to natural water resources and reduce the burden on municipal water supply and wastewater systems. | Kearns Township General Plan | 8 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Develop, maintain and regularly update emergency plans for wildfire response. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Ensure that fire response to foothills residential development meets Salt Lake County Fire Department standards. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, zoning ordinances and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize and support the roles of the SLCPU Watershed Plan, US Forest Service Plan, Town of Alta General Plan and all other relevant adopted plans and regulations. Work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different jurisdictions. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support development which incorporates open-space design, such as clustered housing and transfer of development rights projects, where appropriate. The development of a TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) Ordinance and the identification of sending and receiving zones should be undertaken. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the dark-sky character and aesthetic of the canyon through the development of night-time lighting ordinances that also recognize and acknowledge night-time recreation initiatives at the mountain resorts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Support the establishment of base zones that are consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan and that mesh with uses that are desirable, realistic, and practical within a given area. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the all-year function and activities in the canyon including the [Canyon] resorts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Recognize the approved and updated Master Plans of the two mountain resorts in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Projects that will take place on USFS land and that have been through the USFS approval process should be recognized. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 | |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Create a funding mechanism to assist in maintaining the recreation facilities and amenities provided in the canyon and that assists in the purchase of available properties for open space purposes. The spirit of this mechanism would be to fund the ongoing recreation operations, including but not limited to trail maintenance, restroom maintenance, recreation sites, education and interpretation of the canyon?s resources. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with land managers, private landowners, resorts, and trails organizations to develop more technical mountain bike specific trails | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Continue to support hunting and wildlife management plans in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Support mountain resort viability to provide for increasing numbers of visitors and a diversity of uses and user groups as allowed within the limits and requirements of the current regulatory processes. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Increase enforcement of illegal activities such as illegal bike trails that are cut for the purposes of downhill biking and off -trail cycling. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support partnerships for the development of a system of off -highway bicycle paths to reduce user conflicts. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support the US Forest Service Wasatch Water Legacy Trails Action Plan. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Consider new, growing and evolving recreational uses in order to deal with changing impacts | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support additional commercial and recreational uses and parking in the base areas of the mountain resorts to accommodate the needs of visitors and canyon users. The purpose would be to concentrate these commercial uses where adequate infrastructure and services exist. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Where it is consistent with the goals and objectives of this plan, support the creation of restroom facilities and parking areas at trailheads, including backcountry trailheads, and popular climbing areas to support the growing recreational uses in Little Cottonwood Canyon. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations to support watershed protection and forest health in the face of challenges such as changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Wildlife | Interpretation/education | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| Agriculture | Animal management | Animal husbandry operations are buffered from adjoining uses, where necessary, to mitigate smell, insects, and | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Development is limited to that necessary to the agricultural operations on the site. Permitted agricultural retail commercial activities (fruit stands, etc.) take up no more than 10% of the open space area. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Energy Resources | Alternatives/renewable | Alternative energy resources can provide substantial and reliable energy supplies. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | An energy plan ensures that energy efficiency is included in all aspects of design and construction in new development as well as revitalization projects. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Assemble an energy advisory committee to develop an overview of issues and recommendations with respect to community energy-use patterns and transportation. | Magna Township General Plan | 172 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Because buildings use one third of all energy consumed in the US and two thirds of all electricity (DOE 1997), using ?green? building design can have a major impact on the amount of energy a community consumes. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Communities need to adopt strategies and programs targeted toward infrastructure that reduces energy consumption. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Energy efficient communities inherently generate less air polluting particulates and gases than energy inefficient communities. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Sustainable energy strategies benefit a community because they save money. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all the processes associated with production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Financial budgets of a community are one of the primary limitations to implementing a community energy plan. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Other innovative policies to include in an energy plan relate to user fees, alternative energy production, and regional cooperation. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | People provided with facts on energy sustainability have a better understanding of energy-related issues and are more likely to become part of the solution. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Population growth and transportation should parallel in a sustainable energy planned community. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Public transportation provides energy efficient travel for large numbers of people. | Magna Township General Plan | 74 |
| Energy Resources | Planning | Utah communities can join the nation?s leaders in sustainability by implementing progressive zoning and building energy codes. | Magna Township General Plan | 73 |
| Land Use | Open space | Development standards for recreational open space are driven by the objectives of the community?s parks and recreation plan. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Open space | Natural Open Space: Grading and vegetation removal is limited to that necessary for flood control, invasive species control, and construction of passive recreational facilities like trails and paths. Paving is disallowed, unless necessary for trailhead parking, hardened trails, and similar purposes. If utilities are allowed in natural open space, all facilities are placed underground. | Magna Township General Plan | 133 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Public acquisition efforts focus on sites that are at risk for development for other than recreation uses. | Magna Township General Plan | 142 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Parks/facilities | Park development should coordinate with existing and planned trail networks, improving regional and community connectivity through trails, greenway connections, and paths. | Magna Township General Plan | 142 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Minimize water use in buildings and for landscape irrigation to reduce the impact to natural water resources and reduce the burden on municipal water supply and wastewater systems. | Magna Township General Plan | 174 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Promote the use of renewable sources of energy, and encourage recycling and clean waste disposal methods in order to reduce the overall ecological footprint of the township and its residents. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Geology | Erosion | Use effective and efficient landscaping and grading to prevent soil erosion and slippage, and encourage responsible use of water resources. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Geology | Natural hazards | Reduce the risk of public and private property damage and injury from geological hazards and seismic activity. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Create land use and development patterns that integrate natural areas and resources into the built environment and increase public awareness and responsibility towards the natural environment. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Ensure that new developments preserve and sustain the function of natural systems and environments such as waterways, wetlands etc. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect valuable environmental resources along the foothills, as well as throughout the township, such as natural areas, watersheds and water bodies which contribute to the quality of life in Millcreek. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Ensure that new developments preserve and sustain the function of natural systems and environments such as waterways, wetlands etc. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Protect valuable environmental resources along the foothills, as well as throughout the township, such as natural areas, watersheds and water bodies which contribute to the quality of life in Millcreek. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Use effective and efficient landscaping and grading to prevent soil erosion and slippage, and encourage responsible use of water resources. | Millcreek Township General Plan | 5 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Implement development standards such as a mitigation measures matrix, access standards, defensible space, non-combustible roofs, sprinklers, clear space, proper firewood storage, and other measures in areas prone to wildfire. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Provide emergency and secondary access in all urban/wildland interface areas. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Protect and improve air quality for protection of public health, environmental health, and scenic visibility. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Economic Considerations | Maximize the financial resources available to reinvest in improving and protecting Central Wasatch assets. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 | |
| Economic Considerations | Improve quality of life for residents. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 | |
| Fisheries | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Access | Planning | The Central Wasatch transportation system is integrated within the fabric of community values and lifestyle choices, supports land use objectives, and connects to the overall regional network. We meet the growing demand for access to and within the Central Wasatch Mountains through a dynamic and sustainable multi-modal mountain transportation system that provides year-round transportation choices to residents, visitors and employees, improves safety and efficiency, and is compatible with the unique environmental characteristics of the Central Wasatch. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Provide integrated multimodal transportation choices for residents, visitors, and employees. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Ensure the transportation experience is reliable and facilitates a positive experience. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | Ensure the transportation experience is safe and promotes health. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Planning | The transportation system supports the natural and intrinsic values of the Central Wasatch. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 5 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Pursue the most appropriate and feasible means of securing legal public access to critical recreational opportunities while mitigating conflicts on privately-owned lands | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Establish appropriate levels of access and designed settings in harmony with the desired recreation experience. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Preserve additional lands to avoid loss of critical conservation values, and restore existing degraded lands | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Mitigate the severity of climate change and develop adaptive capacity to reduce vulnerabilities to local climate change impacts | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Economic considerations | Develop legal, regulatory, financial and integrated governance structures that provide long-term and sustainable support for achieving the environment system goals. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Land Use | Economic considerations | Establish an organization, with authority to act based on public support, that fosters long-term success of the Central Wasatch recreation system by promoting collaborative and united management, user education, and acquisition of ongoing funding for continued system maintenance, evolution, and management | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | The recreation system in the Central Wasatch is balanced, sustainable, and provides a range of settings that accommodates increasing demand for year-round outdoor recreation opportunities while protecting solitude, naturalness, and other backcountry values by encouraging stewardship and high levels of use at thoughtfully designed locations with convenient access. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Preserve special, unique recreation areas and settings to maintain opportunities for solitude and naturalness. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | By 2040, the Central Wasatch Mountains achieve a balance of broadly shared economic growth, high-quality development and high-value transportation infrastructure that is attractive, sustainable, and provides opportunity for visitors and residents. The Central Wasatch brand is clearly differentiated as high quality, convenient, and unique in the world, with diverse use and access options. Prioritized protection of natural and scenic resources ensures that quality of life and quality of experience are enhanced over the long term. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Improve the quality of experience for residents and visitors. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Planning | Identify and establish high use areas to focus where future growth in recreation occurs. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Tourism | Grow the year-round, destination-based travel, tourism, and recreation economy. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Provide a well-designed, appropriately maintained, well-signed, and interconnected trail network that meets demand and can adapt to evolving uses. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 6 |
| Riparian Areas | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Aquatic ecology | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protect, maintain and improve watershed health, water supply, and water quality. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Wetlands | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Wetlands | Protect and restore functioning and connected aquatic and terrestrial habitats and ecosystems. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 | |
| Wildlife | Habitat | The Central Wasatch is a natural ecosystem that is conserved, protected, and restored such that it is healthy, functional and resilient for current and future generations. | Mountain Accord: Vision, Goals, and Metrics | 4 |
| Fire Management | Planning | Require the implementation of Firewise and best practices at shooting ranges to lessen the dangers of activities causing wildfires. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Forest Management | Ecology | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Forest management | Ecology | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Expand and support the enforcement of existing regulations and requirements by recognizing and further defining the role and regulatory limits of federal, state, and local jurisdictions within the development review and planning process. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Land use goals, decisions and transportation solutions should consider the impacts of development on view sheds and the overall experience the public has on public lands. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Recognize the SLCPU Watershed Plan, Forest Service Plan and all other adopted plans, and work actively to reconcile policy and regulatory conflicts between different agencies. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | Private property above the dam site in Dell Canyon and from Parleys Summit to Lambs Canyon should be publicly acquired. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Open space | Support the private property acquisition goals identified in the Open Space, Recreation and Trails section, and the preservation of open spaces through conservation easements. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Open Space | Support land acquisitions identifi ed by the Salt Lake County Open Space Trust Fund Acquisition Plan and develop open space management plans that preserve view sheds, wildlife habitats, recreation opportunities, historically significant areas, etc. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Balance recreation uses with natural resource protection and adjacent residential uses. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Develop land use and zoning regulations, ordinances, and processes that are clear, predictable, up-to-date and reflective of contemporary issues and pressures that respect private property rights and access. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage and support efforts to plan for future uses that could be accommodated at the gravel pit when resource extraction activities cease. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Encourage development that is suitable to the area and regulate the size of allowed residential units and maximum site disturbance. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Identify and enforce current gravel pit boundaries. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 5 |
| Noxious Weeds | Encourage appropriate landscaping techniques and the use of native plants to prevent soil erosion, slippage, and invasive species. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 | |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Support the development of funding mechanisms to support the creation, implementation, and ongoing operations of naturalized open space management plans and recreational facilities. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Economic considerations | Recognize and support maintenance and expansion of diverse year-round recreational opportunities where they are appropriate and can be accommodated given land, infrastructure, and long term funding constraints. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Interpretation/education | Install interpretive signs on trails to foster stewardship and appreciation of canyon history and resources. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Facilitate opportunities for trail user groups to contribute to trail maintenance and improvements. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support appropriate mountain bike trails and uses, address illegal trails, and reduce trail user conflicts by coordinating with appropriate land managers, private landowners, and trails organizations to develop mountain bike specific trails. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support development of a comprehensive trails master plan by the USFS and others. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Support development of the Parley Canyon Trail Plan and other canyon connectors. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 3 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Coordinate with user groups to identify and improve access to climbing areas in the lower canyon. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Recreation and Tourism | User groups | Maintain existing shooting ranges. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with other managing agencies to promote forest health and the associated impacts on watershed health. Reconcile discrepancies between defensible space programs and forest health initiatives. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Support measures to protect drinking source and designated watershed areas within the canyon, including public education and enforcement of existing dog ordinances. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate with public and private organizations and the canyon water companies to protect watershed, forest health, and wildlife habitat challenged by a changing climate, invasive species, and increasing public use. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Support hunting and wildlife management activity in Parleys Canyon in cooperation with the Division of Wildlife Resources to maintain ecosystem balance. | Parleys Canyon General Plan | 6 |
| 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 | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Big Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 8 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Promote public education and awareness of wildfire prevention and protection. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Public education programs should promote water conservation, and wildfire prevention, and wildlife habitat. | Little Cottonwood Canyon General Plan | 7 |
| 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 | Regional trails, such as the Great Western Trail and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail will be recognized and valued as unique opportunities to develop recreation corridors across multiple ownerships in the face of expanding development across potential trail corridors. | Revised Forest Plan Wasatch-Cache National Forest | 4-160 |
| 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 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Ultimately, the preservation of agricultural lands requires stewardship of the air, water, and soil. Most agricultural producers want to continue farming, but are concerned about the future of their profession and family operations. Protecting farmland is important to the future of Salt Lake County, as well as to the beneficiaries of the county?s agricultural lands. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 8 |
| Air quality | Standards | Promote efforts to improve air quality such as the Choose Clean Air program, residential wood burning control, Utah Clean Fuels Program, and urban forestry. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 10 |
| Noxious weeds | All land managers in Salt Lake County should focus on Integrated Weed Management (IWM). IWM is based on the principal that by using the most appropriate tool from the toolbox, weed control will be more effective. Tools can include mechanical control (removal), biocontrol, cultural control, and chemical control methods. Early detection of new weeds allows for a quicker suppression. Land managers should strive to keep potential invaders out and ensure that newly detected weeds are treated before they become prolific. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 7 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Watershed | Protecting headwater resources is a critical component of preserving overall watershed health. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Quality/standards | Water quality in the Salt Lake Countywide Watershed can be improved with appropriate forest management, as well as reducing pollutant loads sufficient to support aquatic habitat, water supply, and social functions, including recreation. | Salt Lake County Resource Assessment | 4 |
| 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 |
| Agriculture | Land use | Appropriate easements and restrictive covenants can also be used to provide a cohesive community with well-planned transitions between new residential lots and existing animal/agricultural land uses. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 6 |
| Geology | Erosion | Avoid excessive grading on the hillsides. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Geology | Erosion | Prominent ridgelines and sensitive slopes should be protected. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 2 |
| Land Use | Open space | While provision of land for churches, schools, and civic buildings is important, such land should not qualify as ?open space.? True ?open space? in the form of parks, trails, and natural areas should also be a priority. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 2 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Avoid excessive grading on the hillsides. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Locate local serving utility lines underground. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Protect the natural environment and inherent beauty of the area. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| Wildlife | Coordination/partnerships | Coordinate and plan the design of roads, trails, and open space to be sensitive to wildlife. | Southwest Community Plan Amendment | 4 |
| 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 | |
| Fire Management | Preparedness | Management strategies within the study area should include management and maintenance of vegetation and fire breaks, as well as public education, to mitigate some of the wildfire hazards. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 28 |
| Fire Management | Suppression | All facilities, structures or developments that are susceptible to fire damage will receive intensive suppression. The primary objective with this level of suppression is to prevent loss of life, property, or unacceptable resource damage. All other public lands in the Resource Area will be considered conditional suppression. On these lands the intensity of suppression actions is not fixed and will vary with the conditions occurring at the time of start. These conditional suppression areas will be managed on a least cost plus resource loss basis. In these areas, the full spectrum of intensities is to be considered and the determination on which intensity level to initiate suppression is based on the conditions at the time. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| 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 |
| Air Quality | Standards | Enhance air quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Energy Resources | Efficiency/conservation | Promote conservation of energy. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Open space | Encourage conservation of open space and irreplaceable natural resources in land use decisions. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Promote conservation of regionally significant critical lands. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Standards/zoning | Protect and enhance the natural environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Land Use | Visual/aesthetics | Enhance the aesthetic beauty of our built environment. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Accessibility | Create and enhance access to areas of natural beauty and recreation. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Recreation and Tourism | Trails | Encourage community trails coordinated with regional/state trail systems. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Conservation | Promote conservation of water [and] enhance water quality. | Wasatch Choices 2040 | 18 |
| 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 |
| Fire Management | Suppression | All wildfires on public land will receive some level of suppression. The authorized officer has the responsibility to determine the intensity of the suppression effort to meet the overall protection objective to put the fire out with minimum suppression cost and minimal losses, consistent with management objectives. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Fire Management | Suppression | BLM will prepare vegetation modification plans for Skull Valley and Puddle Valley to reduce wildfire and attempt to stop or reverse the cheatgrass conversion cycle. | BLM Pony Express RMP | 39 |
| Land Access | Planning | Closure, reconstruction, and restoration of trails within the study area (Yellow Fork and Rose Canyon). | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 34 |
| Land Access | Recreation | Both the Yellow Fork Canyon and Lower Butterfield Canyon parking areas and trailheads are the highest priorities for funding and implementation. New gates and associated fencing will likely be required at both locations to prevent motorized access to the upper portions of both roads. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 33 |
| Land Use | Ecology | Maintenance of study area lands will focus on maintaining healthy native vegetation communities, stabilizing soils in disturbed areas, minimizing disturbance related to recreational activities, and reducing noxious weed infestations. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 27 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | As opportunities arise and funding becomes available, the County should work towards the acquisition of key properties with its partners. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 29 |
| Land Use | Jurisdiction/exchanges | (Salt Lake) County should also consider the transfer of study area BLM lands to County ownership in order to consolidate and simplify management activities as opportunities arise or as requested. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 29 |
| Law Enforcement | With increases in the local population and more interest in public uses within the study area, there will be an even greater need for rules and regulation enforcement to provide for public enjoyment of the study area and to ensure public safety. | Yellow Fork Master Plan | 31 | |
| Fire Management | Suppression | Establish landscaped fire breaks for all newly constructed and existing foothills structures. | Copperton Township General Plan | 34 |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Reduce pollutant loads to improve water quality in the Salt Lake Countywide Watershed sufficient to support aquatic habitat, water supply and social functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Develop regional wastewater planning procedure requirements to enhance, improve and protect water quality functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Evaluate and prioritize the effects of Utah Lake outflow and diversion canals on water quality and flow by developing optimized management protocols, that will enhance and protect water quality, habitat and hydrologic functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Improve and protect wetlands and stream bank stability to prevent degradation from erosion and sediment transport to protect water quality, habitat, and hydrologic functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Increase stream corridor and watershed recharge area preservation to improve habitat, social, recreational and water use functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Increase instream flows under normal and drought conditions to support aquatic habitat and recreational functions. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| Water Quality and Hydrology | Identify funding mechanisms for plan update, long-term watershed monitoring, and ongoing adaptive management. | Salt Lake Countywide 2008 Water Quality Stewardship Plan | E-2 | |
| 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 |