This project was a three-way land exchange with the Bureau of Land Management in Utah whereby the sale of valuable BLM lands near St. George paid for preservation of 3,200 acres of critical bighorn sheep habitat in Utah's western desert.

The Deep Creek Mountain Range is a "biological island" in the Great Basin on the Utah/Nevada border, which harbors rare plants and animals inluding the Bonneville cutthroat trout.

1991

Scott M. Matheson Preserve

Acres: 900

Location: Along Colorado River in Utah's Canyon Country.

Originally called the Moab Slough, the preserve is a magnet for 220 bird species in the heart of Utah's redrock canyons. It is the largest wetland on the Colorado River in Utah, and was "stitched together" through purchases of 15 tracts of land.

1993

Mayberry Preserve

Acres: 209

Location: Heart of the Colorado River corridor near Moab.

Projects support a critical raptor habitat, one mile of river frontage, habitat for several rare Colorado River fish and a historic peach orchard. It was made possible through one of the first-ever federal ISTEA grants in Utah.

1994 ongoing

Utah Reclamation, Mitigation and Conservation Commission

(URMCC) Great Salt Lake Partnership

The conservancy supported creation of this unique federal agency and ensured its focus would include the wetlands and uplands of the Great Salt Lake. The URMCC makes conservation grants to mitigate the effects of the Central Utah Project.

1997

Dugout Ranch

Acres: 5,167 with 250,000 acres of associated grazing allotments,

Location: The entrance to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

This project is the largest land purchase by a conservation organization in Utah's history and arguably one of the most significant conservation and ranching properties in the West. The property supports deer, elk, bear, cougar, numerous raptor species, four rare plants, numerous archaeological sites and more than 42 miles of valuable cottonwood-riparian forest.

1999

Utah Quality Growth Act