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Identifying habitat gold standards in the three forests of southern Utah
The Trust’s multi-year Reference Areas Project is meeting with grand success.During 2007–2008, we had located healthy examples of:
In 2009, the Trust proposed nine of these healthy sites for long-term protection and maintenance as reference areas (“habitat gold standards”) on the three national forests of southern Utah. As of January 2010,eight have been accepted, and a process is ongoing to reach a decision on the ninth. These reference areas will help the Forest Service and users understand the potential conditions under conservation-based management as compared to current management, which supports roads, 
ORV routes, oil and gas, coal mining, livestock grazing, dispersed motorized camping, water diversions, and clear cutting. Similarly, reference areas help inform goals for restoring degraded sites.
Your donations and membership dues make our research, monitoring, and restoration work in Utah possible.
