UTAH NAWCA PROJECTS $3,710,611 $10,726,634 10 51,537 NAWCA GRANT AMOUNT TOTAL PARTNER CONTRIBUTION NUMBER OF PROJECTS TOTAL ACRES
Utah has 10 NAWCA projects either completed or underway. These projects have conserved 51,537 acres of wildlife habitat. NAWCA funding of more than $3.7 million stimulated partner contributions of over $10.7 million.
GREAT SALT LAKE WETLANDS PROJECT, PHASE IV The Great Salt Lake and associated wetlands support four million waterfowl and five
million shorebirds annually, forming one of the most important wetland complexes in North America. While most of these birds are staging migrants, many breeding birds are there in high numbers. In Phase IV of Ducks Unlimited’s long-term effort to conserve wetlands and migratory bird populations in the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, partners will focus on acquiring, restoring and enhancing wetlands and uplands immediately
adjacent to the lake.
The project will protect, restore or enhance 12,410 acres of wetlands and associated uplands, 116 acres of which will be permanently protected. Work will occur on nine tracts, including four state waterfowl management areas, a national wildlife refuge and four private properties. Project work will benefit a quarter of the continental northern pintail population, nearly three quarters of the western tundra swan population, more
than half of the western snowy plover population, the world’s largest breeding populations of white-faced ibis and California gulls, one of the largest concentrations of breeding redheads in North America, the most important cinnamon teal breeding area in North America and the world’s largest staging concentration of Wilson’s phalaropes.
PROJECT NAME GRANT PARTNER TOTAL TOTAL AMOUNT CONTRIBUTION FUNDS ACRES 1. NEW STATE SMALL ROLLER $40,000 $50,599 $90,599 1,503 WATER CONTROL STRUCTURE 2. BEAR RIVER MIGRATORY $75,000 $234,079 $309,079 187 BIRD REFUGE WETLAND ENHANCEMENT PROJECT 3. GREAT SALT LAKE $1,000,000 $2,467,291 $3,467,291 7,032 WETLANDS PROJECT, PHASE IV 4. GREAT SALT LAKE $465,000 $990,670 $1,455,670 14,796 WETLANDS PROJECT, PHASE III 5. NEW STATE BIG ROLLER $30,000 $168,410 $198,410 1,042 WATER CONTROL PROJECT 6. THE NEW STATE WETLAND $49,112 $131,923 $181,035 1,200 ENHANCEMENT 7. AMBASSADOR DUCK CLUB $27,400 $43,353 $70,753 400 WETLAND RESTORATION IN TREATED PHRAGMITES AREA 8. CONTROL OF $37,000 $45,689 $82,689 300 PHRAGMITES AT AMBASSADOR DUCK CLUB 9. GREAT SALT LAKE $1,000,000 $3,397,513 $4,397,513 8,778 WETLANDS II 10. GREAT SALT LAKE $987,099 $3,197,107 $4,184,206 16,598 WETLANDS TOTAL: $3,710,611 $10,726,634 $14,437,245 51,537
For additional information please contact Ducks Unlimited, Inc.’s Governmental Affairs Office at 444 N Capitol St., NW Suite 745, Washington, D.C., 20001 or call (202) 347-1530