From Deseret News archives:
Conservation highlights
Conservancy's Great Basin Field Program
Projects in Utah and Nevada
Projects included purchase of a 13,320-acre property of Ash Meadows near Death Valley; creation of the Nevada Heritage Program, a statewide database of rare plant and animal species in Nevada; the Ruby Valley Conservation Project, which secured protection of two ranches totaling 9,400 acres and valued at $1.6 million; a $45 million land exchange with the BLM that added 5,300 acres to Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area; and a desert Tortoise preserve through which one million acres of land was retired from grazing.
1983
Layton Marsh
The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve
Acres: 1,192
Location: Eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in area formerly owned by Morton Thiokol.
1986
Lytle Ranch
Acres: 462
Location: On the edge of the Mohave Desert.
Ranch supports critical habitat of the rare Virgin River spinedace (a desert fish) and the threatened desert tortoise along the Beaver Dam Wash.
1987-89
Strawberry River
Acres: 3,000 and five river miles in first purchase.
Location: Along the Strawberry River in Duchesne County.
This is one of the most productive brown and cutthroat trout fisheries. Today, after the investment of more than $2 million, 14 river miles on the Strawberry and 5,500 acres have been preserved.
1988
Utah Natural Heritage Program
This is the first statewide database cataloguing rare plant and animal species in Utah, home to the fifth highest number of these at-risk plant and animal species in the country.
1989
Deep Creek Basin
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