Resources & Carrying Capacity

  1. Otter Creek Reconnect and Reintroduction Project
    https://sewtu.tu.org/tu-projects/otter-creek-reconnect-and-reintroduction-project

    Goals

    TU eliminated over 14 fish passage barriers in this tributary to the Bear River, replacing existing culverts and diversion dams with bottomless arch culverts and instream rock structures.

  2. Little Bear Flow Restoration Project
    https://sewtu.tu.org/tu-projects/little-bear-flow-restoration-project

    Goals

    TU installed four new pivot irrigation driven by innovative micro-hydro turbines that provide a source of clean and renewable energy.

  3. Upper Bear River Reconnect and Flow Restoration Project
    https://sewtu.tu.org/tu-projects/upper-bear-river-reconnect-and-flow-restoration-project

    Goals

    For more than a hundred years, individual ranchers and irrigation companies have diverted water from the main stem of the upper Bear River and a key tributary, the East Fork, to water hay and alfalfa field downstream near the town of Evanston, Wyoming.  Many of these aging canals and ditches run

  4. Weber River Diversion Rebuild
    https://sewtu.tu.org/tu-projects/weber-river-diversion-rebuild

    Goals

    This project prevents native Bonneville cutthroat trout, wild brown trout, and other fish species from being caught and killed in two large, irrigation diversions.  When completed, the project will also allow upstream passage for trout and a native fish called a Bluehead sucker that can live for

  5. Dolores River
    https://sewtu.tu.org/tu-projects/dolores-river

    Goals

    The Dolores River tumbles from the top of Lizard Head Pass above the town of Rico, down the valley through lush meadows and unique high-country aspen slopes, to the town of Dolores and into McPhee reservoir.  Along the way it is joined by the West Fork of the Dolores, which flows past the histori

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