District 6

Crook, Weston, and Campbell Counties

Mooney Ranch Habitat

March 2018. Improvement of quantity and quality of native mountain mahogany shrublands through removal of invasive and encroaching species.


Total Project Cost: $41,200WWNRT Funding: $20,000Sponsor: Wyoming Game and Fish Commission

Spring Creek Ranch

March 2018. Fence construction, modification and water development to improvement quantity an quality of native rangelands.


Total Project Cost: $705,400WWNRT Funding: $80,000Sponsor: Wyoming Game and Fish Commission

Fortification Elk Monitoring

September 2017. Radio collars to monitor and access elk habitat use and range fidelity to identify priority areas in need of habitat enhancement.


Total Project Cost: $184,660WWNRT Funded: $92,600Sponsor: Bureau of Land Management - Buffalo

Stockade Beaver II

September 2017. Habitat treatments including mechanical, chemical and fire to remove invasive conifers, and to stimulate growth of desirable plant species in Weston County.


Total Project Cost: $450,308WWNRT Funded: $200,000Sponsor: Wyoming Game and Fish

Prospect Creek Fence

March 2017. Fence removal and modification to remove barriers to migration and movement of elk and other ungulates to and from crucial winter and year-long use area northwest of Thermopolis in Hot Springs County.


Total Project Cost: $39,000WWNRT Funded: $17,500Sponsor: The Nature Conservancy

Powder River Invasives

March 2017. Riparian wildlife habitat enhancement through the use of chemical and mechanical treatment of salt cedar on private, state and public land in Campbell and Sheridan Counties.


Total Project Cost: $207,000WWNRT Funded: $60,000Sponsor: Wyoming Game and Fish

Deep Pot Cottonwoods

September 2016. Stream enhancement through planting of cottonwood trees in an area where extensive drought and other impacts have lead to loss of structural and biological diversity.


Total Project Cost: $13,206WWNRT Funded: $5,000Sponsor: Campbell County Conservation District