CONSERVATION FORESTRY

SEEDLING TREE SALES PROGRAM
Wyoming's Conservation Districts distributed 146,458 seedling trees to Wyoming citizens during the 2010 seedling tree program. Many of these seedlings result in additional living snow fence and windbreak plantings. These plantings provide phenomenal aesthetic values, snow and wind control benefits, and wildlife habitat. For more information on tree plantings contact your local Conservation District or Extension Service.

Click here for a list of seedling tree distributors in Wyoming.

Wyoming Living Snow Fence Program
The Wyoming Living Snow Fence Program is a cooperative effort between the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), Wyoming State Forestry Division (WSFD), local Conservation Districts (CD) and private landowners to implement windbreak plantings for the purpose of snow catchment along State highways. Living Snow Fence plantings enhance State and County efforts to keep roads safe and open during periods of adverse winter weather while reducing highway maintenance expenditures. The Program provides funds to cover the costs of planting and maintaining LSF projects. WYDOT provides $100,000 annually to the Program.

Since its inception in 2000, ninety one projects with a total of 257,523 lineal feet or 48.77 miles of tree row have been installed. These plantings will provide strategic protection for 16.95 miles of public roadway upon establishment. 

Bark Beetle Information
There are forests in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota that are experiencing bark beetle epidemics at a historically unprecedented scale. For more information, go to the Region 2 Forest Service website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/bark-beetle/index.html or Firewise Wyoming website at http://www.firewisewyoming.com/Publications.html

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Mission: The Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts provides leadership for the conservation of Wyoming's soil and water resources, promotes the control of soil erosion, promotes and protects the quality of Wyoming's waters, reduce siltation of stream channels and reservoirs, promote wise use of Wyoming's water, and all other natural resources, preserve and enhance wildlife habitat, protect the tax base and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of this state through a responsible conservation ethic.