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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recognizes that the public lands are facing increasingly complex and widespread environmental challenges that transcend traditional management boundaries. These challenges include managing wildfire, controlling weeds and insect outbreaks, providing for energy development and urban growth, and addressing pervasive impacts from the effects of climate change.�The BLM�s landscape approach builds on land management concepts and experiences that have been evolving for nearly three decades.�BLM managers recognize that western forests and rangelands can no longer be managed effectively by local offices alone, or through traditional management practices.�Scientists, land managers, and stakeholders have been working since then to understand these wide-ranging impacts, develop shared strategies, and implement collaborative management efforts.�These collective experiences and partnerships make up the Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative (UWRI).� Utah BLM has entered into a cooperative agreement with the State of Utah�s Division of Wildlife Resources using Legislative Authority (Wyden Amendment Act 16 U.S.C. 1011). This authority allows for watershed restoration and enhancement treatments that span multiple jurisdictional boundaries. Through this agreement the BLM is able to carry out numerous landscape initiatives that benefit wildlife, watershed health and resistance/resilience to multiple change agents.