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Overview of Utah’s AIS Program
Nathan Owens
AIS Coordinator
UDWR
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Steps to Success
1. Outreach and Education
2. Boat Interception
3. AIS Management
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Outreach and Education
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Boat Interception
• Lake Powell – Infested!
• Deer Creek – Suspect
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First Layer: Exit Inspections at
Lake Powell & Deer Creek
• No standing water or attached mussels leaving the area!
• Decontamination of
select boats • Tagging of all boats!
• Boater education
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Second Layer:
Statewide Boat Inspection Stations
▫ I-15 POE
▫ Lake Powell – Big Water/Kanab, Hanksville
▫ Bear Lake – Garden City, Laketown
▫ Strawberry Reservoir – Daniels POE
▫ Flaming Gorge – Hwy 191
• All watercraft required to stop
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Third Layer:
Statewide Inspection & Decontamination
• 55 Mobile Decontamination Units
• Building permanent stations throughout the state
▫ 2016 – Deer Creek, Jordanelle, Utah Lake, Willard Bay
▫ 2018 -- ??
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AIS Monitoring
• Plankton samples
• Dive surveys
• Substrate samplers
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Rapid Response Plans
• Flaming Gorge Reservoir
• Starvation, Steinaker, Red Fleet Reservoirs
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Bear Lake AIS Prevention Efforts
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2015 Season Statistics
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Garden City Laketown
Decontaminations
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
Garden City Laketown
Watercraft Interdictions
124
40
8,006
1,230
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2015 Season Statistics
Origin of Contaminated Watercraft
Lake Powell (77)
Deer Creek (62)
Colorado (3)
Michigan (2)
Arizona (1)
North Dakota (1)
Unknown (18)
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Bear Lake Future AIS Efforts
• Alternate location for Garden City Inspection Station location
• Rapid Response Plan development – 2017
• Coordinated efforts with ID
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Looking Ahead
• Rule Changes
▫ Plug rule (WAWFA)
▫ Mandatory dry time for mussel boats
▫ All mussel-encrusted boats must be cleaned and decontaminated at owner’s expense
• Utah AIS Program Rebuild
▫ More focus at Powell
▫ Integration of private business
▫ More coordination with surrounding states
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A Comprehensive Effort
• Effective Outreach and Education
• Multiple layers of protection, starting at the mussel-affected waters, and ending at the destination waters
• Frequent Early Detection Monitoring
• Standardized Data Collection
• Partnership Building
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Partners
• Division of State Parks and Recreation • USFWS • USFS • USBOR • NPS • BLM • Emery Water Conservancy Districts • Provo River Watershed Council • FFSL • Central Utah Water Conservancy District • Weber Basin WCD • PacifiCorp • Uintah WCD
• Many more ….and more in the future.
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Thank You
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New Developments
2016 AIS Season
• Local Boater Program at Lake Powell
▫ Sticker for “local” boats
▫ Allows techs to focus inspections on high-risk boats traveling out of area
▫ Full decontamination required if launched anywhere else