The Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) is a partnership-driven effort to conserve, restore and manage ecosystems in priority areas across the state of Utah.� The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR), Great Basin Research Center and Seed Warehouse (GBRC), in Ephraim, Utah, is a key logistical cog in accomplishing hundreds of proactive restoration projects across the state each year since the initiative started in 2005.� The UDWR seed warehouse acquires hundreds of thousands of pounds of seed for restoration and rehabilitation projects each year through pooled funds of the WRI.� The seed warehouse has also been extremely valuable to the State of Utah, BLM and Forest Service in extreme fire seasons by having the ability to quickly and efficiently acquire, store, mix, and distribute seed for fires across the state.� The GBRC also provides specialized equipment for seeding and seed bed preparation for all partners in the WRI.� The GBRC is also an important center for the development of native seed and restoration techniques. Also located at the GBRC is the Range Trend Project which has been monitoring the trends and conditions of important wildlife ranges since the 1980�s. Since the inception of the WRI, the Range Trend Project has been monitoring selected restoration projects with both pre- and post-treatment monitoring. The GBRC plays a behind the scene role, but is vitally important to the success of the WRI.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.