Hogs Heaven Watershed Enhancement Project

In 2010, elevated levels of ecoli were discovered in the north fork of the Virgin River, due to wildlife exclusively grazing near the stream. In 2018 the Natural Resources Conservation Service in partnership with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and others launched a project to help reinvigorate the vegetation in the surrounding area by removing patches of pinyon juniper trees and planting a new seed bed creating new areas for wildlife forage and eventually lowering the ecoli levels in the stream benefitting wildlife, landowners, and the Utah Wildlife Migration Initiative, and even the land itself for many years to come.