1. Presentation by Taylor Payne
Utah Grazing Improvement Program

2. Proponent driven NEPA process started
in Fall 2011 through permittees and Rich
County Commissioners
 Demonstrate good land stewardship
through switching to rest rotational
grazing across 146,000 acres, 10
allotments, multiple land owners
 Patterned after Deseret Land and
Livestock grazing management plans
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Time (duration)
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Timing (season)
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Intensity (amount of forage removed)
Plants
Animals

8. Archeology survey has
to be completed
across the entire
project area of each
of the established preexisting infrastructure.
Special attention is
being focused on the
riparian areas
believed to be used
by livestock the most
in the project
boundaries.
Preliminary survey will
evaluate roughly 3300
acres of ground and
proposed new
infrastructure will be
completed at an
earlier time.

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Recently we’ve had letters of support
committed from:
Governor Herbert’s Economic and Rural
Development Office
Senator’s Hatch, and Lee’s office
Rep. Bob Bishop’s office
Bear River Association of Governments
Trout Unlimited
RMEF, MDF, and multiple others

11. • Hired Open Range Consulting to Establish Base Cover of
Vegetation through remote sensing.
• Documenting changes that result from improved grazing
management is important!
 How will you know if it’s worth the effort?
 How will you convince others it’s working?
 How will you make decisions and adjust management
(Adaptive Management)?
• Monitor upland and riparian vegetation cover and
species changes – for example, photo points, transects.
• Track livestock use faithfully – what kind, when, how
many, how long, and the utilization levels

14. Permittees will form an LLC that also
consolidates their current grazing permits
together.
 Permittees will lease their corresponding
base properties back to the LLC.
 The LLC will establish Articles of
Organization and an Operating
Agreement with which to operate under.
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15.  Utah
Grazing Improvement Program
 NRCS,
EQIP
 Watershed
 DWQ
Restoration Initiative
Hardship Grant

16.  Awarded
to the 3 Creeks Association
to perform maintenance.
 Increased
ability to complete tasks
once prohibitive because of cost
 Examples
include: hired fence
contractor, hired riders, water system
maintenance

17. 
Finish Archeology Requirements for NEPA Process
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Install Capital Improvement Projects in summer of
2014
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Finish the Organization of the 3 Creeks LLC
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Hope to be grazing in the summer of 2015 as 2
consolidated herds of cows along with affiliated
bands of sheep.