Bear River Watershed Conservation Area, established in 2016, is a landscape-scale unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System that helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) protect wildlife habitat through voluntary, private land conservation easements and in some cases, by fee title land acquisition.

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      About Us

      The Bear River Watershed Conservation Area was established in 2016 through a process resulting in a Land Protection Plan (Plan). The Service completed this Plan after considering public input and potential impacts this type of program would have on the landscape and habitat.

      What We Do

      A conservation area conservation area
      A conservation area or wildlife management area is a type of national wildlife refuge that consists primarily or entirely of conservation easements on private lands. These conservation easements support private landowner efforts to protect important habitat for fish and wildlife. There are 13 conservation areas and nine wildlife management areas in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

      Learn more about conservation area       is a landscape-scale unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System that helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) protect wildlife habitat via voluntary, private land conservation easements and in some cases, by fee title land acquisition.  

      Conservation easements acquire limited rights on private lands to protect habitat and migration corridors for wildlife while also allowing private landowners to keep their lands in production. Fee title land acquisition is when the Service acquires land outright, with all interests.   

      Our Species

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      The Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah) is a subspecies of Cutthroat trout that once inhabited the Late Pleistocene-aged Lake Bonneville of Utah, eastern Nevada, and Southern Idaho (USA). Since the desiccation of Lake Bonneville into Great Salt Lake which is too salty for any...

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      The lynx is a medium-sized cat with long legs, large, well-furred paws, long tufts on the ears, and a short, black-tipped tail. The winter pelage of the lynx is dense and has a grizzled appearance with grayish-brown mixed with buff or pale brown fur on the back, and grayish-white or buff-white...

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      The trumpeter swan is a majestic bird, with snowy white feathers; jet-black bill, feet, and legs; and 8-foot wingspan. At close range, a thin orange-red line can be seen on the lower part of the bill. The trumpeter is often confused with the smaller, more northerly tundra swan, especially where...

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      Medium to large falcon, with bluish-gray upperparts (becoming more blackish on head) in adults, variable-width blackish facial stripe extending down from eye across malar, this stripe usually set off by pale auriculars or "cheek," but pattern sometimes obscured if cheek all dark; underparts...

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      Our Library

      Find documents relating to the Bear River Watershed Conservation Area here.

      Bear River Watershed Conservation Area Land Protection Plan
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      Bear River Watershed Conservation Area Land Protection Plan

      Bear River Watershed Conservation Area Land Protection Plan is plan covering a landscape-scale unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System that helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protect wildlife habitat via voluntary, private land conservation easements and in some cases, by fee title...

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