Color Country South Canyon Restoration

Background information. The South Canyon project area consists of 121,000 acres within the Upper Sevier River Watershed in southern Utah. This watershed is ranked as a high priority for restoration because of degraded riparian and upland vegetation and erosion, the presence of hazardous fuels placing communities at increased risk of wildfire, and degraded greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) habitat because of the expansion and infilling of pinyon and juniper. In particular, this project was designed to reestablish and maintain sagebrush semi-desert habitat, open travel corridors, and provide benefits to sage-grouse and mule deer within and immediately adjacent to the...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bureau of Land Management, Conifer, Fuels reduction project, Habitat-based, Herbaceous fuels management, All tags... Invasive species control, Sage-grouse habitat, Sagebrush restoration, Seeding, Shrub/scrub, State land, U.S. Department of the Interior land, Utah, Vegetation Restoration, Vegetation management, Watershed restoration, Woody fuels management, Fewer tags