States have a variety of projects on public lands

Published: Wednesday, April 11 2007 12:04 a.m. MDT

Contributions to the Healthy Lands Initiative, to be released immediately, are as follows. The money is expected to be increased by $3 million from state and private partners. This funding is in addition to $22 million requested in the 2008 federal budget:

• Utah — $439,000 to remove pinyon and juniper trees "to enhance sage grouse and mule deer habitat."

• New Mexico — $1 million for a mesquite brush control project to be completed in May.

• Wyoming — $402,000 for "sagebrush prescribed burns, riparian restoration, aspen regeneration and wildlife water developments."

• Colorado — $325,000 to remove pinyon and juniper trees, oak brush and sagebrush, followed by seeding to improve herbaceous vegetation. The money also funds riparian restoration.

• Idaho — $390,000 for the southern Idaho-Snake River plains for sage grouse restoration, planting sage brush seedlings and to control weed invasions.

• Tri-state area of Oregon, northern Nevada and southwestern Idaho — $454,000 to restore shrubs, remove junipers, control invasive weeks and restore riparian areas.

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