In This Issue:                                                          

* Laramie River Restoration Project

* “Conservation” at LRCD

* NRCS Offers Technical and Financial Assistance

* Community Well Testing

* Mountain Pine Bark Beetles Mitigation & Forest Activities

* Monthly Precip Chart 

 

A quarterly publication of the Laramie Rivers Conservation District

* Winter Tree Care

* Kids Page

* NRCS Offers Statewide Sign-Up for Conservation Practices

Upcoming Events:

* October 3rd—”Growing Up Wild” Workshop    for Teachers Preschool through 2nd Grade

*    October 12—Columbus Day—Office Closed

LARAMIE RIVER

RESTORATION PROJECT

 

Work has begun on the Laramie River Restoration Project and will continue through October.  If you would like to volunteer to help harvest willows for transplant, please call 721-0072 for more information.  If you are a Facebook user, search “Laramie River Restoration” for frequent pictures and updates on the progress being made.

Workers installing willow pole plantings at the first restoration project site.

“Conservation” at the Laramie Rivers Conservation District

 

By Tony Hoch

 

In today’s world of spin you can use just about any word in any way to meet the motives of your message.  The board and staff at LRCD want to take this opportunity to make clear our use and understanding of the word “conservation”.   We understand that people have been here for thousands of years coexisting with the natural world and depending on forests, rivers, rangeland, wildlife, and domestic animals for their survival.  Being people, working for people and being funded by people, we take the human’s role in our environment very seriously.  We acknowledge that humans have a rocky history in using the land wisely and sustainably.  We acknowledge that we are here as a local government entity as a result of the mismanagement of the land in the early decades of the last century  - leading to massive soil erosion during the dust bowl years.  Our charge today is to not to retreat from our use of renewable resources, but to help people do it better.  Our definition of the word conservation falls in line with one of the great conservationists of modern times: Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service, “Conservation means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”  In today’s language that means managing and using our natural resources in a sustainable fashion.

LRCD’s newsletter “High Country Conservation” is now available via email.  Please contact Liz at liz.harvey@wy.nacdnet.net and provide your email address.  A less than 2Mb PDF file will be sent out quarterly.