About Draper's Suncrest

Suncrest is a luxury mountain subdivision in Draper Utah. If you are interested in homes for sale in Draper's Suncrest neighborhood, click here to view current listings.

I was out showing property the other day up at a Development called Suncrest, Draper Utah. The winter Carnage of a Vole infestatation was very apparent with the yards in this bedroom community. It almost look like a power rack was hard at work over the winter. What is a Vole?

Voles are small rodents that grow to 4-8 inches depending on species. They can have 5-10 litters per year. Gestation lasts for 3 weeks and the young voles reach sexual maturity in a month. Needless to say, vole populations can rapidly grow from one or two to many within a very short period of time. Since litters average 5-10 young, a single pregnant vole in the yard can become 50 or more in less than a year.

Voles are commonly mistaken for other small animals. Moles, gophers, mice, rats and even shrews have similar characteristics and behavioral tendencies. Since voles will commonly use burrows with many exit holes, they can be mistaken for gophers or some kind of ground squirrel. Voles can create and will oftentimes utilize old abandoned mole tunnels thus confusing the land owner into thinking that moles are active. When voles find their way into the home, they are readily identified as mice or young rats. In fact, voles are unique and best described as being a little bit like all the other animals they are so commonly thought to be.

They will readily thrive on small plants. Like shrews they will eat dead animals and like mice or rats, they can live on most any nut or fruit. Additionally, voles will target plants more than most other small animals. It is here where their presence is mostly evident. Voles will readily "girdle" or eat the bark of small trees and ground cover much like a porcupine. This girdling can easily kill young plants and is not healthy for trees or other shrubs.

Voles love to eat succulent root systems and will burrow under plants or ground cover they are particularly fond of and eat away until the plant is dead. Bulbs in the ground are another favorite target for voles; their excellent burrowing and tunnelling gives them access to sensitive areas without clear or early warning. A vole problem is often only identifiable after they have destroyed a number of plants.

Good luck to the homeowners of Suncrest and it is my guess there are some fat and happy cats living it up about now.

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The Deseret News has reported that "Owners of the SunCrest development have defaulted on $58 million in development loans, and residents there are worried the developer could try to sell its remaining assets and leave the state."

Owners fear that amenities that the developers promised would be built (clubhouse, etc.) will never be built.

The promised clubhouse (from the suncrest.com website):

How would you feel if you had bought into such a development as many as 5 years ago, constantly being told the improvements were "just around the corner" and now hearing news like this?

Can anything be done to save the community?

Read the news article here: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695259163,00.html

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