Where are your offices located?

Where can I find the phone number for an employee?

I need (name) that works with the Natural Resource Conservation Service. Can you connect me?

How can I get a job with the department?

Where can I get a permit for a Christmas tree or firewood?

1594 West North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

Where can I find the phone number for an employee?

A state employee directory is available at: http://web.state.ut.us/phone.htm

I need (name) that works with the Natural Resource Conservation Service. Can you connect me?

The Conservation Service is a federal agency, you'll need to call 524-4550

How can I get a job with the department?

Hiring is done through a the Department of Human Resource Management. Job openings can be found at https://statejobs.utah.gov/ojlSortSelect.jsp

Where can I get a permit for a Christmas tree or firewood?

Contact the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration at 801-538-5100 or your local office of the US
Bureau of Land Management or US Forest Service.

All about the Department of Natural Resources:

When:
In 1967, eleven separate agencies administered natural resource management. The State Legislature mandated a Commissioner of Natural Resources to oversee a new “superdepartment” with seven divisions. The governor at the time was Calvin Rampton

Why:
Many of the 11 different agencies were busy doing the same work being carried out by others. Often this resulted in the same job being done twice, and the public getting two different answers from two state agencies. The department was formed to organize the work and work toward common goals.

Functions:
DNR exists to ensure that the natural resources in Utah are used in a way that will make them last and remain for future generations. Our mission is to sustain and enhance the Utah quality of life today and tomorrow through the coordinated and balanced stewardship of our natural resources.

Changes:
DNR's leader is not a commissioner anymore, we now have an Executive Director.
Some agencies have changed names, left our department and some have consolidated (Oil & Gas merged with Mining, and state sovereign lands merged with the state's wildfire agency, the Utah Energy office left in 2003).
In 1996, all the divisions moved into a single building to increase efficiency and communication.
Since 1967, the department has made many changes to take care of the landscape and accommodate business, industry and agriculture in an era of increased need for conservation of our natural resources and care for the environment.

In charge:
Executive Director, Michael R. Styler

The Agencies:
There are seven...

Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands
Division of Oil, Gas and Mining
Division of State Parks and Recreation
Division of Water Resources
Division of Water Rights
Division of Wildlife Resources
Utah Geological Survey