$20 million for wildlife/vehicle collision mitigation—contact please

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Doug Owens is running legislation requesting $20 million to mitigate wildlife/vehicle collisions in the state. The state has over a billion dollar surplus. Contact the committee members in this email and let them know you support the legislation and funding to help mitigate wildlife getting hit:
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Not sure how all these go into effect yot the money doesn't add up. Supposedly SFW, MDF all put money into it along with the states.

Then there's this.....

Ryan Zinke, then secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, traveled to Salt Lake City in 2018, where he signed a secretarial order aimed at improving the conservation and coordination of big game migration and winter range corridors in Utah and 11 other states in the West.

Secretarial Order 3362 ultimately sparked about $20 million in habitat conservation and management funds, according to Casey Stemler, a senior advisor for Western states for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the main architect behind the order. It also led to nearly $6.5 million in research funding, which helped launch dozens of new research projects on the subject over the past five years, and another $2.5 million in mapping support.

The question is whose actually putting up the cash, and if others are also as claimed, where's it all going???
 
Not sure how all these go into effect yot the money doesn't add up. Supposedly SFW, MDF all put money into it along with the states.

Then there's this.....

Ryan Zinke, then secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, traveled to Salt Lake City in 2018, where he signed a secretarial order aimed at improving the conservation and coordination of big game migration and winter range corridors in Utah and 11 other states in the West.

Secretarial Order 3362 ultimately sparked about $20 million in habitat conservation and management funds, according to Casey Stemler, a senior advisor for Western states for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the main architect behind the order. It also led to nearly $6.5 million in research funding, which helped launch dozens of new research projects on the subject over the past five years, and another $2.5 million in mapping support.

The question is whose actually putting up the cash, and if others are also as claimed, where's it all going???
I’m not exactly sure what you’re meaning here in regards to this? Some of those orders have to do with not allowing development, collars, tracking, etc. All cost a lot of money across a bunch of western states. If you want to see results of some of the research funding here’s a site for Utah that shows migration research being done:


One wildlife overpass can cost up to like $4 million.

This money is a different issue, and sometimes state funds have to be used in order to get some of the federal funds you’re speaking of. It’s even how Pittman-Robertson works. $20 million to leverage $80 million to install over/under passes, fencing, signs, etc. would be significant funding in-state to help this issue. Hopefully these funds can be secured for this.
 
Sorry, that's not how dwr/udot works. One overpass will cost more than 80 million. I wish it was different but it's not.
A wildlife overpass or underpass would not cost 80 million dollars.
Nevada does it for a fraction of that and they have them all throughout their state in critical areas.
 
Sorry, that's not how dwr/udot works. One overpass will cost more than 80 million. I wish it was different but it's not.
$4 million is the high cost of creating one. They can be constructed from anywhere from around $600,000-$4 million. We aren’t talking about the DWR paying for the entire highway project, we’re talking about the over or underpass. Usually this is planned within projects already underway by UDOT. They can approach $6-7 million but those are very very intricate and difficult projects.
A wildlife overpass or underpass would not cost 80 million dollars.
Nevada does it for a fraction of that and they have them all throughout their state in critical areas.
$4 million is the high end of what an average one costs. I get we don’t like government waste, but I would contest the DWR is one of the best government agencies out there at using the funds they get wisely.
 
Good news, this funding has been included in the states budget and should see final passage by next Friday when the legislature ends its session. I do not expect it would be taken out now. $20 million in state dollars that should be leveraged for $60 million more in federal funds. Should be a big win for wildlife in the state, and citizens.
 
This funding saw final passage yesterday. The state should have up to $80 million to fund wildlife Highway mitigation projects now. A huge win for wildlife.

A special thanks to the local Backcountry Hunters and Anglers chapter and Representative Doug Owens for pushing this through.
 
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