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Who We Are |
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MEET OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS After a year of minor turmoil with three resignations due to career changes and one untimely passing, we are finally back to a full board and looking forward to a fresh start in 2009. |
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Kelly Kennedy (Rural Supervisor) is a lifetime Albany County resident, rancher and entrepreneur and looks forward to representing landowners in the northern part of the county. He will work to help us identify natural resource issues and inform neighbors of programs that are available to help conserve natural resources and improve ranch viability. He’s also interested in staying current and contributing with respect to natural resource issues in the state legislature. Kelly is active on the Albany County Farm Bureau Board and the Albany/Carbon County Farm Services Agency Board. |
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Carl Shaffer (Urban Supervisor) is a resident of the Town of Rock River and has ranched there for 26 years and in Albany County his entire life. He previously served on the LRCD board for eight years. Carl holds a degree in agronomy from UW and has been instrumental in our work with the endangered Wyoming Toad. He values sustainable agriculture and appreciates the lure of life in the country for our customers who are “new to the land”. He is interested in seeing LRCD follow its stated mission, without duplicating services provided by other local agencies. He wants LRCD to spend taxpayer dollars wisely and efficiently. |
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Larry Munn (Rural Supervisor, Vice-Chair) has been a Professor of Soil Science at UW and Albany County resident for 27 years. His background also includes forestry and rangeland systems. Larry sees the main challenges for LRCD as helping to maintain open spaces and to preserve a healthy landscape for future generations. Along with the traditional role of assistance to producers, Larry underscores the importance of educating our youth and assisting the emerging population of people living on small acreage plots in Albany County in being better stewards of the land. |
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Last Modified on January 30, 2012 |
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LRCD District Staff Left to Right: Tony Hoch, Director and Water Quality Specialist
Martin Curry, Resource Specialist (Rangeland Ecology, Watershed Management, Soil Science and Reclamation Restoration Ecology)
Liz Harvey, Administrative Assistant
Trish Penny, District Clerk and Education Coordinator |
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NRCS Staff Left: Clay Thompson, NRCS Civil Engineering Technician—Area Office
Right: Ruben Vasquez - District Conservationist |
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Left: US Fish and Wildlife Partners Program Mindy Meade
Right: UW Cooperative Extension, Small Acreage Coordinator Jennifer Thompson |
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As part of a collaboration with the Wyoming state office of the NRCS, Jennifer Jones, Small Acreage Coordinator, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service and Mindy Meade, Biologist for the Partners Program of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, are both housed in our office building. |
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Jim Rogers (At-Large Supervisor, Secretary/Treasurer) has ranched in the Little Laramie Valley for 13 years and is originally from Pinedale. He is a former Albany County Planning Commissioner and has been active with the Stock Growers and the Beef Council. Jim’s passion over the past 2.5 years as an LRCD supervisor, has been to help keep ranching viable through diversification, as a way of preserving open spaces. He sees wind development as one key to saving ranches from going in to residential subdivision. He has also been a proponent of allowing ranchers to use their irrigation water to develop fisheries in order to build the recreation and tourism economies. |
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Nancy Bath (Rural Supervisor and Chair) also sees wind development as a way to save private lands from subdivision and is pro-renewable energy for the tax benefit to the state, which has often found itself in a boom-bust cycle related to the oil, gas and minerals industries. She also points out the contribution that agriculture land provides for wildlife habitat and open space. Nancy encourages good land stewardship and wants to improve LRCD’s visibility to the community for all of its environmental endeavors, “We don't just want to be known for our living snow fences”. |
