Utah Wildlife Federation

This campaign was created to help raise funds for an exterior large wall mural of a kokanee salmon at the Strawberry Reservoir Visitor Center in Utah. The Heber/Kamas District of the U.S. Forest Service owns the building. It is located along the Strawberry River on West Strawberry Road just off U.S. 40.

Each fall kokanee salmon come out of the reservoir and up the river to spawn, swimming past the building. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources holds an annual event at the visitor center each fall to celebrate this colorful and unique wildlife viewing event. This year the Strawberry Kokanee Salmon Day will be held September 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Generous non-profit groups have provided $3,000 of the $8,000 needed to complete the mural.

Utah Wildlife Walls is a partnership program between artist Chris Peterson and the Utah Wildlife Federation. The goal is to create at least one large wall wildlife mural in all 29 Utah counties. There are seven completed so far. Major donors will be acknowledged on a webpage featuring information about the mural and kokanee salmon on the Utah Wildlife Walls page found through a QR code on the mural.

Helps us celebrate all the wildlife species of Utah!

Address: Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Forest Rd 131, Heber City, UT 84032

Hey there, my name is Chris Peterson. I'm a mural artist who is passionate about wild trout. I've been working on this cool project in SLC in a collab with the Utah Wildlife Federation and Utah Trout Unlimited to celebrate Utah's state fish, the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout.

We originally secured funding for a 10x10ft mural, but we approached the Neighborhood Hive - a local community market in the Sugarhouse area of SLC- about a prominent 17' x 120'ft wall on 2100 South. They loved the idea of highlighting local wildlife, so we decided to team up and create something spectacular on the wall.

The mural, which will be the spotted flank of a juvenile Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, will highlight the “Trout in the Classroom” program in nearby schools(managed by Utah Trout Unlimited) and habitat conservation efforts funded by the Utah Cutthroat Slam (a partnership between Utah Trout Unlimited and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources).

We're planning to unveil the mural on October 22, at the First Annual Bonnie Ball Festival: an annual family-friendly festival at the Neighborhood Hive that celebrates this native species and raises awareness and funds for native trout conservation in Utah.

We need to raise $5000 and we'd love your help: $2500 for paint and equipment rental and $2500 to install a "Trout in the Classroom" tank program inside the Neighborhood Hive. Open six days a week, we are excited to make available a place for everyone to learn about and wonder at the early lifecycle of trout.

Help us celebrate those native trout!