Utah Featured Projects

Utah has a wide variety of habitats found throughout the state which are utilized by residents and visitors alike. Hunting, fishing, recreation, tourism, and agriculture are integral to our livelihood.  All of Utah relies on healthy livestock, soils and wildlife which require healthy native plant communities. These native communities are threatened by invasive noxious weeds and if left unchecked could transform an entire ecosystem and everything that depends on it.   

Invasive Species Mitigation provides financial assistance to land owners, managers, and agencies through competitive grant opportunities with the goal of protecting agricultural, critical rangeland, and important wetlands.  

Each year we open up the application process to all Utah residents, land managers, and partners. We receive hundreds of requests for grant assistance totaling close to 2 million dollars annually. In the last 3 years we have successfully awarded over 4.7 million dollars through grants and assistance opportunities.

All projects that have been fully funded, have been vetted through a competitive grant application process and involve many components (more below). These feature projects are just a sample of the great work being done in weed control throughout our state. These projects highlight some of the ground work and achievements made possible through the cost share grant assistance program.

As you scroll through the projects below, you can see the various locations and partners. Click on any of the projects to get a more detailed view into the scopes and outcomes.

Please contact  Aaron Eagar  with any questions or issues dealing with Utah weed control and funded projects.

All grant applications are ran through an intense vetting program we call SIIPA.

The Spatial Invasives Infestation and Priority Analysis (SIIPA) model was originally based on TNC’s framework and was designed to apply a customized prioritization framework to all known invasives within an area of interest, allowing the manager to prioritize not just different species, but individual populations within a species and across different species.

All Utah SIIPA scores are based on the following components:

Once projects are ran through our SIIPA model, they are given an internal score. We take our top scoring projects and allocate cost share funding for them. We look forward every year to funding the projects that give us the most benefit for our contribution. We love project partnerships and are always looking for ways to team up with local communities.

If you have a great project idea and are interested in the grant application process, please reach out. We'd love to hear about it and get you started on our SIIPA project website.

We enjoy everything Utah has to offer and we are striving to protect it.

Each year we try and focus on a wide range of target species. We are looking for the best way to stretch our grant application funds. Here is how we allocated the funds in previous years across the various species:

Every fiscal year we start with a new budget as determined by the Utah legislature. The table below contains all of the projects that were funded from the 2021 - 2023 legislative budgets.

To visually see the project areas and the landscapes that were treated please visit our Project Dashboard.

To get more information about our various projects or to inquire about the project funding process- please contact us directly.

Invasive Weeds State Coordinator - Aaron Eagar: aegar@utah.gov