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Habitat Enhancement

Habitat Enhancement. March 23, 2005 Utah Division of Oil, Gas, & Mining Stephanie Tomkinson Questar Exploration and Production Company. Acknowledgements. John Baza, Utah Division of Oil, Gas, & Mining Utah Division of Wildlife Resources BLM – Vernal Field Office Questar’s Red Wash Team

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Habitat Enhancement

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  1. Habitat Enhancement March 23, 2005 Utah Division of Oil, Gas, & Mining Stephanie Tomkinson Questar Exploration and Production Company

  2. Acknowledgements • John Baza, Utah Division of Oil, Gas, & Mining • Utah Division of Wildlife Resources • BLM – Vernal Field Office • Questar’s Red Wash Team • All employees and management

  3. Deadman Bench Greenstrip Project • A cooperative effort between: • BLM (83% Federal land) • UDWR (17% State land) • Questar Exploration and Production Co. (our Red Wash Field)

  4. Project Area – Red Wash Unit

  5. DeadmanGreenstrip Project

  6. Purpose of Greenstripping Fire prevention Sage Grouse habitat

  7. QEP’s Role in Project • Provide cultural resource inventory of project area • Monetary Cost $10,000.00 • In-kind contribution • Good neighbor gesture

  8. Before After

  9. Local Support & Publicity

  10. Conservation Efforts in the Uintah Basin by QEP “Temporary Footprint” P&A Marker (06/09/04)

  11. Water for Wildlife • Fresh water ponds • Reservoirs • Watering troughs Water Trough NESW 8 8 22 (06/03/04) Wooley Reservoir 28 7 23 (06/03/04)

  12. Antelope at Watering Hole WV 10W 11 Watering Hole (06/10/04)

  13. Artificial Nests WV 13W 13 Pipe yard (06/09/04) WV 10W 11 WIS (06/10/04)

  14. Ferruginous Hawk Nestlings WV 10W 11 (061004)

  15. Raptor Protection

  16. “Spring Clean Up” Photo by: Karen Bloom, BLM VFO (041404) Photo by: Karen Bloom, BLM VFO (041404) Photo by: Karen Bloom, BLM VFO (041404)

  17. Other Conservation Efforts: • Compost pad • Noxious & invasive weed control • Local Sage Grouse working group • Uintah Basin Conservation & Development Group

  18. The End

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