WRI News

Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) and its partners announce funding decisions for the upcoming FY 2025 (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025) project implementation season.  121 of the 152 project proposals submitted to WRI were either fully or partially funded this week.  This year’s list of funded projects is scheduled to improve another 216,000 acres of priority watersheds in

Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) and its partners announce funding decisions for the upcoming FY 2024 (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024) project implementation season.  92 of the 124 project proposals submitted to WRI were either fully or partially funded this week.  This year’s list of funded projects is scheduled to improve another 224,000 acres of priority watersheds in

In this episode, Utah Department of Natural Resources Watershed Program Director Tyler Thompson and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Habitat Conservation Coordinator Daniel Eddington talk about some of the proactive land management taking place in Utah and the program that helps make it possible.

Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) and its partners announce funding decisions for the upcoming FY 2023 project implementation season.  103 of the 148 project proposals submitted to WRI for implementation between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 were either fully or partially funded this week.  This year’s list of funded projects is scheduled to improve another 244,441 acres of

WRI recently launched social media accounts on both Twitter and Facebook! Follow us for WRI announcements and program highlights, partner stories and project highlights and other relevant restoration news, events and information from around the west. As always, WRI is all about partnerships!  Feel free to message us if you’d like to see some of your content posted on WRI’s

Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) and its partners announce funding decisions for the upcoming FY 2022 project implementation season.  114 of the 162 project proposals submitted to WRI for implementation between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 were either fully or partially funded this week.  This year’s list of funded projects is scheduled to improve another 227,208 acres of

Recent publication looking at 15 years of WRI sponsored woodland reduction projects across 129 different sites in Utah shows the overall positive effects of these treatment types, but also illustrates the risks. This research provides needed information to help land managers plan the best possible outcomes to achieve the desired benefits.  Click Here for the full peer reviewed article. Abstract

WRI has been getting a lot of questions lately about why we spend so much time and money removing Pinyon and Juniper trees here in Utah.  This excellent Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document Prepared by USDA-NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife/Sage Grouse Initiative, Intermountain West Joint Venture, and The Nature Conservancy of Montana may help to answer some of the most

Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI) and its partners announced funding decisions for the upcoming fiscal year 2021 project implementation season.  101 of the 147 project proposals submitted to WRI for implementation between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 were either fully or partially funded this week.  This year’s list of funded projects is set to improve another 185,000 acres

WRI project manager and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Partners Biologist Clint Wirick pens this recent article for The Mule Deer Foundation’s January/February 2020 magazine.  Clint talks about his experience with WRI and the rest of the “conservation dream team.”  Click Here to download the full article.