Utah Division of Wildlife Resources presents habitat work and delivers payment in lieu of taxes to Tooele County
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Summary
A regional DWR supervisor presented a payment in lieu of taxes and summarized habitat restoration (shrubs, seeding), juniper mastication with BLM, collaring studies for deer and bighorn sheep, and a fisheries creel survey at Settlement Canyon; DWR offered continued technical assistance for local habitat and fisheries projects.
Danny Summers, regional supervisor with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, presented a check to Tooele County (transcript references 'the check, for for $20.25, for $336.97' — the amount as spoken in the transcript is not clear) and reviewed recent and planned wildlife work in the area. Summers said funding largely comes from hunter and angler permits and licenses and described habitat projects including food-plot work at Fitzgerald WMA (in partnership with Pheasants Forever), fire rehabilitation seeding for Big Springs Fire, shrub seeding and seedling plantings to restore mule deer winter range on the Stansbury and Sheeprock Mountains, and juniper mastication with the BLM at Johnson Pass.
He also described collaring work to monitor deer and bighorn survival and mentioned a fisheries creel survey at Settlement Canyon and a trout planting into South Willow Lake. Summers said DWR staff are willing to work with the county on improvements at fisheries or habitat areas and noted their harvest-license funded grants and projects.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about specific properties covered by the payment and whether DWR performs relocations or transplants (Summers said he was not aware of large transplants other than some wild turkeys). The chair invited follow-up coordination with county maintenance staff for site work.
