Utah's Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) is a partnership-driven effort to conserve, restore and manage ecosystems in priority areas across the state to enhance Utah's. The WRI serves as a clearinghouse to coordinate and share participants' conservation concerns and priorities, discuss and implement solutions, and promote an atmosphere of collaboration among landowners, private organizations, and state and federal agencies. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) Great Basin Research Center and Seed Warehouse (GBRC) facility provides a ‘one stop shopping' choice for partners to order custom mixed seed, schedule the use of rangeland seeding equipment, and provide habitat restoration monitoring. The structure of the WRI creates an atmosphere where partners are able to proactively plan restoration projects. This proactive approach presents an opportunity to improve the success of projects, especially when selecting the kind and sources of seed to be planted. The ability to plan projects in advance also provides the project manager with enough time to request seed collection, by seed vendors, from locations nearby the planned projects. By so doing, we feel we are able to choose seed sources that are adapted to local biotic and abiotic factors.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.