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Wildlife Division highlights habitat work after Monroe Fire; says collared elk and deer largely spared
Summary
Division staff told the Utah Wildlife Board that habitat treatments and partner work limited animal losses after the Monroe Fire; staff plan fall seeding and rehabilitation and said more than 300 collared deer and elk remain accounted for.
Director Riley Peck told the Utah Wildlife Board on Aug. 22 that recent habitat work and partner investments limited the ecological damage from this year's largest wildfire in the state, the Monroe Fire.
"If you look at that black line, that black line is the fire boundary," Peck said while showing maps of burned areas and earlier habitat treatments. He credited conservation partners and prior habitat projects with helping slow and limit the fire’s effects.
Peck said…
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