Study on Management of Public Lands in Wyoming

2015 The Wyoming Legislature passed Senate File 56, Study of Management of Public Lands, which directed the Office of State Lands and Investments to commission a study and provide a report examining the management of certain specified federally owned public lands in Wyoming. The legislature and this report did not address ownership transfer of these lands. The report focuses on public lands administered by the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. We also presented various management alternatives including the use of local and state level natural resource policy plans, …

Lone Tree Creek Headcut Stabilization

Y2 worked with the Natrona County Conservation District, a local landowner, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for this stream stabilization and headcuts project. The headcuts are threatening wet meadows and contributing excessive sediment into the downstream North Platte River. Y2 identified a design approach to stabilize the headcuts, protect and reestablish wet meadows above the headcuts to slow further sediment contributions downstream. These improvements will promote stream channel stability, natural channel function, and floodplain connectivity to potentially reclaim the lost …

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