![]() ![]() ![]() Bighorn County-Implement a mixture of aerial and hand ignition prescribed burning for 3,000 acres in sagebrush and conifer habitats across the Bighorn National Forest to improve forage on big game winter, summer and transitional ranges (also affects Washakie, Sheridan, and Johnson Counties) remove encroaching juniper and conifers on 405 acres of sagebrush steppe habitat in the final phase of the Black Mountain Juniper Removal project initiated in 2012 totaling more than 1,000 acres of treatment across Bureau of Land Management (BLM), state and private lands to improve elk and mule deer crucial winter range and sage-grouse habitat apply mechanical thinning and prescribed fire treatment to approximately 30 acres of encroached riparian areas and 500 acres of juniper and sagebrush habitat within the Bighorn Mountains on BLM land to enhance habitat for elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep and sage-grouse and thin conifers within aspen stands and then apply prescribed burning to 944 acres to improve crucial winter range on the Medicine Lodge Wildlife Habitat Management Area and BLM lands to create a mosaic of grass, forbs, sagebrush and aspen stands that help better disperse elk.Ĭarbon County-Burn 660 acres of older age class shrubs and 206 acres of mixed conifer and decadent aspen stands in the northern Sierra Madre Range on the Medicine Bow National Forest convert 4.5 miles of dilapidated five-wire and sheep fence to wildlife-friendly fence on private lands in the Beaver Hills to maintain elk, mule deer and other wildlife migration corridors and accessibility to winter range while providing for an infrastructure that will improve the livestock grazing system mechanically remove encroaching conifers from 1,542 acres including sagebrush, mountain shrub slopes, aspen woodlands and riparian habitats on Bradley Peak in the Seminoe Mountains on BLM and private lands to benefit elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep and greater sage-grouse treat cheatgrass on 275 acres, seed an additional 110-acre meadow, improve irrigation infrastructure and reclaim 10 miles of decommissioned roads on the Pennock Wildlife Habitat Management Area which provides yearlong and crucial winter range for elk and mule deer as well as sage grouse brood rearing habitat in the Upper North Platte River Valley provide funding for 13 more GPS collars in an ongoing study to monitor elk habitat use in relation to beetle kill trees in the Sierra Madre Range on the Medicine Bow National Forest to provide an assessment of elk movement and forest use prior to, during and after massive tree fall which will aide managers in decisions impacting elk hunting in the area and install a pipeline in the Heward ditch which increases irrigated acres from 250 to 500 to provide additional forage for 600-800 elk that winter on the Wick/Beumee Wildlife Habitat Management Area five miles west of Arlington.įremont County-Replace about a mile of dilapidated barbed wire fence with wildlife-friendly pole top fencing to allow wildlife access without injury while keeping livestock off a pasture reserved for wildlife winter range including 500-600 wintering elk on the Red Canyon Wildlife Habitat Management Area install a pivot sprinkler to efficiently irrigate the 125-acre Sideroll Meadow on the Spence/Moriarity Wildlife Habitat Management Area which will improve forage for the East Fork and Wiggins elk herds, increase hay production for Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) feedgrounds in western Wyoming, improve habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, cut irrigation system maintenance costs and help with weed suppression in an area that is winter range for approximately 4,500 elk-one of the largest unfed concentrations of elk in Wyoming and improve 800 acres of aspen stands in the South Pass area in the southern Wind River Range on the Shoshone National Forest using lop and scatter and pile and burn methods to thin conifers as part of a multi-year project addressing aspen regeneration, mountain shrubs, willows and other habitat within a 60,000-acre area. ![]()
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