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Zeedyk Wyoming Workshop
Introduction to Low-Tech Wet Meadow Restoration Format: Free, virtual & recorded workshop Audience: Wyoming land managers and partners Hosted by: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) Wet or mesic meadows are rare but disproportionately important ecosystems in Wyoming. Gully erosion and channel incision are widespread problems reducing natural resiliency and water…
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Partnering Up to Conserve a Watershed from the Headwaters Down
Utah’s Bear River Land Conservancy and Idaho’s Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust each faced an issue well-known to conservation organizations around the Intermountain West: too much work to do and too few people to get it done. On top of that, both organizations recognized the need for a position that could circumvent the conservation barriers presented…
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Partnership Shines in Bear River RCPP
An abundance of cold, clean water has drawn people to the banks of the Bear River for millennia. It’s this same cold, clean water that makes the Bear River perfect habitat for native trout like the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, as well as multiple species of wildlife and migratory birds. This watershed stretches from snowmelt on…
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Wyoming’s Hellyer Family Leads Local Private Lands Conservation
The Hellyers run a cattle operation with the main base found along Willow Creek south of Lander, WY. In the summer, they run cattle on their Burnt Ranch property along the Sweetwater River in southern Fremont County. The ranch is comprised of 7,100 acres of deeded land as well as many thousands of acres of…
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More Menace Than Cheatgrass?!
The following article is by Bebe Crouse, Communications Director for The Nature Conservancy in Montana and Wyoming, with contributions from the Intermountain West Joint Venture. “It’s like a horror film!” That’s the way The Nature Conservancy’s northeast Wyoming program director Carli Kierstead describes the rapid spread of two invasive annual grasses. What started as a…
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Community Partnerships in Action: Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative
An Initiative for Landscape Conservation on southwest Wyoming The following story is contributed by Erica Husse, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) Coordinator for the Bureau of Land Management The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) was established in 2007 as a long-term, science-based effort to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife habitats while facilitating responsible development…
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Partners Leverage Strengths for Wyoming Wetlands
Water is scarce is Wyoming. And in recent years, the arid state has lost more than a third of its wetland habitat. This loss has resulted in a decrease in water storage, streamflow maintenance, and water quality in local watersheds. It has also reduced the value and availability of habitat for 70% percent of Wyoming’s…
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Dancing Again — Sage Grouse Returns to Old Haunts
For almost 15 years on any given spring morning at Wyoming’s Rome Hill, you could hear every noise associated with daybreak in the sagebrush sea, except one: You wouldn’t hear that strange burbling sound the male greater sage-grouse makes during its mating rituals. The story was the same for many years. Every March and April…
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Wyoming Partnership Celebrates More Than A New Year
The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT) entered 2018 with a reason to celebrate. Actually, it has more than a quarter of a million reasons to celebrate! With its most recent acquisition, the WSGLT now holds a whopping 252,213 acres of conservation easements across the state. In mid-December, WSGLT broke the quarter-million mark by acquiring…
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Wyoming Juniper Removal Helps to Bring Sage Grouse Back
Don Smurthwaite, a Bureau of Land Management Communications Specialist focused on all things sagebrush and sage grouse, contributed the following story. On a windswept butte in southern Wyoming, a change is taking place – one that will eventually make thousands of acres more suitable for Greater Sage-grouse, mule deer and other wildlife, and improve domestic…
