{"id":348,"date":"2021-02-08T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/?p=348"},"modified":"2021-02-08T02:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T02:24:20","slug":"eagle-mountain-creates-wildlife-corridor-connecting-oquirrhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Mountain Creates Wildlife Corridor Connecting Oquirrhs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 2nd the Eagle Mountain City council unanimously approved the creation of a wildlife corridor overlay zone. The purpose of the zone is to create a continuous migration and habitat corridor through the city boundaries. The Cedar Valley serves as a major migration corridor for wildlife moving between the Oquirrhs and Lake Mountains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"1208\" src=\"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20200314-220854-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Oquirrh Wildlife Migration\" class=\"wp-image-350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20200314-220854-edited.jpg 797w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20200314-220854-edited-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20200314-220854-edited-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20200314-220854-edited-768x1164.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><figcaption>Utah DNR Data shows wildlife migration patterns surrounding the Oquirrhs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents spoke in favor of the corridor during the council meeting. Afterwards supporter and Eagle Mountain resident Bettina Cameron celebrated the action on Facebook, \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have been possible without the rest of the (Eagle Mountain Nature and Wildlife) Alliance, DWR, City Staff, Planning Commission and City Council. There have been so many people supporting this and helping to make this possible\u2014 especially the residents who care so much about our open spaces and Wildlife! Thank you everyone who made a public comment!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the land included in the corridor is private property or owned by the BLM. The City and volunteers will work to raise funds for conservation easements that will protect the corridor permanently. The Oquirrh Foundation supports these efforts to preserve vital open space connecting the Oquirrhs to the surrounding areas and the people and wildlife that visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-07-at-7.00.02-PM-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-07-at-7.00.02-PM-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-07-at-7.00.02-PM-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-07-at-7.00.02-PM-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-07-at-7.00.02-PM.png 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Eagle Mountain Wildlife Corridor Overlay Zone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagle Mountain City council unanimously approved the creation of a wildlife corridor overlay zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10,8,9],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eagle-mountain","tag-growth","tag-oquirrh-mountains","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oquirrhfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}