Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Bureau of Land Management, in partnership with the WRI, is planning a vegetation management project in the mountains/hills surrounding Parowan and Paragonah. The current project area is broken into three individual parcels which are being approached as one project (only one report/set deliverables are required for all three). The vegetation management aspects of this project are focused on the mechanical removal of expanding pinyon juniper woodland, followed by seeding grasses, forbs, and shrubs to expand wildlife habitat. Long Hill project area is a fuels reduction project. Vegetation treatment will be by mastication, mechanically grinding trees into mulch. This area measures 1,365 acres (1337 BLM and 28 private). The Red Hill project area will be focus on masticating 648 acres of Pinyon-Juniper trees. Seeding of grasses, forbs, and shrubs will take place in the area to be mechanically treated. This project will increase useable habitat for sage grouse and restore and enhance summer and winter habitat for mule deer. For the Summit Creek (Maple Hollow) project area, vegetation treatment will be also be mastication. 283 acres of vegetation treatment will enhance winter range habitat primarily for mule deer and reduce hazardous fuels near Parowan Utah. The area contains all phases of pinyon-juniper encroachment. Following mastication the project area will also be seeded.
