About Austin
The Muddy Creek watershed is in the Yampa River Basin, southwest of Rawlins, Wyoming. It is an important tributary of the Little Snake River that supports a wide variety of wildlife and rare communities of native fish. Through partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Intermountain West Joint Venture and Trout Unlimited established a Muddy Creek Project Manager partner position that will focus on landscape level conservation project planning, prioritization, and implementation. The Muddy Creek Project Manager will work closely with a network of federal, state and local partners to coordinate landscape level habitat restoration throughout southern Wyoming and its watersheds.
Austin Quynn has been hired to further the delivery of conservation efforts including riparian and wetland enhancements, erosion control, and fish passage to restore and enhance natural ecological function in this critical region. In his position Quynn will develop, manage, and advance habitat improvement projects through expanding partnerships and identifying new opportunities for cross-boundary conservation. Through cultivating relationships with natural resources managers, landowners, and other partners, the Muddy Creek Project Manager will further promote and strengthen the value of multiple-use management of BLM lands while connecting work to adjoining private, and other public lands to restore the sustainability on a watershed level through southern Wyoming’s sagebrush landscape.
BLM Offices Supported: Rawlins Field Office
Position Established: 2024
