District 9
Teton, Sublette, and Fremont Counties
Cottonwood and North Bench Easements
December 2008. Conservation easements in two phases on approximately 7,200 acres of sagebrush and wet meadow habitats used extensively by Sage-grouse, moose, mule deer, and elk. The project has considerable support from the Jonah Interagency Office, and is located near Daniel.
Hovendick Ranch Easement
December 2008. Conservation easement on 700-acre family ranch along the Pop Agie River near Lander, will maintain agricultural production, while securing habitat for deer, waterfowl, songbirds, Sage-grouse, and fisheries.
Sommers-Grindstone Easements
December 2008. Conservation easements on two historic Sublette County ranches will maintain agricultural heritage and highly valuable riverine habitats on nearly 8,000 acres along the Green River.
Duke Place Easement
December 2008. In conjunction with Sommers-Grindstone project, the landowner will donate $2.5 million easement value on more than 11,000 acres from Bridger-Teton forest to the Green River in Sublette County. This 12-mile corridor is vital to elk, deer, moose, and other species of concern in western Wyoming.
Ring Lake Ranch
December 2008. Conservation Easement on 419 acres of crucial winter and migration routes for bighorn sheep, mule deer and elk near Dubois.
Lander Front Mule Deer Habitat
December 2008. Continuation of watershed-scale project to enhance mule deer and Sage-grouse habitats through mechanical, chemical and prescribed fire. Project eliminates encroaching juniper, limber pine and other conifers, and treats sagebrush to stimulate growth and diversity of ages and structure.
Carney Ranch Easements
December 2008. Completion of easements in upper Green River Valley will maintain habitat and ranching on nearly 4,000 acres of riparian bottomlands. The area is a crucial migration route for many species, including antelope, elk, mule deer, and moose, and also serves as habitat for Trumpeter swan, Sage-grouse, and a host of bird species.
Dry Quad Aspen
December 2008. This project will enhance aspen habitats in Teton County through fire and mechanical methods. These aspen communities are habitat to mule deer, elk, moose, black and grizzly bear, and a suite of bird species that nest in Wyoming.
Wyoming Range Mule Deer Assessment
December 2008. Assessment of mule deer populations and habitats will accelerate ability to place meaningful projects on the ground in areas adjacent to the Wyoming Range.
Piney Front Moose Habitat Assessment
December 2008. Assessment of moose habitat needs and potential projects within the Moose Initiative program boundary in Sublette and Lincoln counties.
Friendly Pond Wetland
June 2008. This project includes the construction of a 5.5 acre pond that would provide resting, nesting, and foraging habitat for swans and other water fowl. This pond will be located in the North Piney Creek drainage that empties into the Green River near Big Piney.
Wiggins Fork Aspen
June 2008. This project will enhance roughly 750 acres of aspen/ conifer stands that are in a high risk of extinction. This project will use mechanical methods as well as prescribed fire to restore healthy stands of aspen. These aspen communities are habitat to mule deer, elk, moose, black and grizzly bear, beaver, bobcat, mink, martin and lynx.
Winchester Fish Screen
June 2008. This project will install a fish screen on the Winchester irrigation ditch. This fish screen and bypass system will prevent the entrainment of thousands of fish per year to the irrigation ditch and reduce impacts to the wild rainbow and brown trout fishery and native fish recruitment in the Bull Lake Creek system which includes burbot, sauger and mountain whitefish.
