In 2020 the utah division of wildlife resources udwr built a lands database to replace all existing lands records systems

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior (DOI), awarded the State of Utah, Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) $100,000 under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) through a Formula Grant mechanism. The award was obligated on July 1, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2027. Under this funding, UDWR will maintain, host, and enhance the Utah Lands Tool for Resources and Assets (ULTRA) database, which was initially developed in 2020 to centralize and manage the division's real property records and land management operations. The ULTRA database serves as the primary information management system for UDWR's extensive portfolio of over 600,000 acres of owned and managed real property.

The grant funds services provided by the company that originally built the ULTRA database, ensuring continued database functionality, technical support, and system enhancements necessary for UDWR's ongoing land administration and wildlife management operations. This investment supports the division's core mission of managing Utah's wildlife resources and natural habitats by maintaining robust information infrastructure for property tracking, monitoring, and stewardship across the state's wildlife management areas and related real property holdings.

The database known as the utah lands tool for resources and assets ultra is used to store access monitor and track land management for the udwr. With over 600000 acres of real property that udwr owns and managed a lands database to store information was essential to the successful management of these properties. In addition udwr contracted with a local title company to find evaluate and enter deeds and other real property information into the ultra database. This grant will allow udwr to maintain host and enhance the database with the company who built IT.