Two "shovel ready" forest health improvement projects in Utah will get an infusion of $4 million designed to help protect critical watershed areas and curtail the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, who made the announcement Tuesday at the state Capitol, said the projects in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache and Manti-LaSal national forests are part the Shared Stewardship Agreement inked in May with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

Overall, $20 million will be spent over four years in a cooperative partnership that exists in only two other states, Idaho and Washington.

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