Habitat and Water Resources News

Group Circle Before Elk Ridge Fence Day

Volunteers Tear Down 8-Foot Fence For Wildlife

On July 30th, volunteers circled the wagons near Elk Ridge in the Spence-Moriarty Wildlife Habitat Management Area. The task? Remove eight-foot tall elk fence from 9,000 feet in elevation so deer, pronghorn, and elk can travel across the landscape there. This six-tenths of a mile section was difficult to get to and was adjacent to …

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Volunteer pulling Fence

Volunteers Needed: Fence Removal Near Dubois

Local hunting and angling nonprofits – the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, the Red Canyon Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and Bowhunters of Wyoming – are looking for volunteers to remove fence on Saturday, July 30, 2022, near Dubois, WY. The Fremont County fence removal project is the Wyoming Wildlife Federation’s longest-running project where volunteers …

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Beaver Dam Analog Building Wide View

New Beaver Dams Help Parched Landscape

Last weekend, the parched pasturelands near Little Mountain got a bit of help from nature’s original flood irrigators: beaver dams. These beaver dams were not built with teeth and tails, however. Over 70 different volunteers, agencies, nonprofit workers, businesses, and others all gathered on the Ramsay Ranch, where big head-cut banks line Trout Creek, to …

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