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Wasatch Open Lands Board reviews two conservation NOIs, asks county to consider local match and hearing schedule
Summary
Utah Open Lands presented two Notices of Interest — Pear Tree Llama Ranch and a GH Square (Holmes family) dairy — requesting local matching funds alongside federal RCPP applications. The board asked staff to add water-share counts to NOIs, noted county bond funds remaining, and set local and county public hearing dates in January.
Utah Open Lands asked the Wasatch County Open Lands Board on Wednesday to endorse two conservation easement proposals and to prepare materials for county council consideration.
The presentations covered the Pear Tree Llama Ranch in southern Midway and a dairy operation owned by GH Square (the Holmes family). Utah Open Lands told the board it had secured a $15,600,000 Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) that will fund a portfolio of projects; the two NOIs are among the preselected projects being advanced for local and federal matching support.
Why it matters: both projects aim to preserve working agricultural land and scenic corridors at a time of rising development pressure in Midway and eastern Heber Valley. Local matching…
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