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Thunder Basin Coordination Meeting Scheduled for July 31
Release Date: Jul 27, 2018
Contacts:
Wyoming Department of Agriculture - Chris Wichmann, 307-777-6576, chris.wichmann@wyo.gov
U.S. Forest Service - Aaron Voos, 307-745-2323, atvoos@fs.fed.us
(DOUGLAS, Wyo.) July 27, 2018 – A coordination meeting for Grassland restoration and prairie dog colony management on the Thunder Basin National Grassland will take place on Tues., July 31, 2018 in Douglas, Wyo. The meeting is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. and should last until approximately 4 p.m. at the Converse County Library.
The event will be convened by Wyoming Department of Agriculture (WDA) and facilitated by University of Wyoming Extension. It is open to all interested parties, and is a follow up to public and intergovernmental meetings held over the last three years, most recently on April 19, 2018. At the April meeting, an assessment was distributed and results have since been compiled by WDA. Based on the results of that survey, interested parties want to continue a collaborative effort and dialogue on managing prairie dogs on the Grassland, while identifying potential changes to the Forest Service Grassland Plan for prairie dog colony management into the future.
WDA, has agreed to convene a series of meetings to direct a Collaborative Group. The group will discuss issues with the current Plan and identify potential amendments to the Plan that can be presented to the Forest Service for consideration in a formal Plan Amendment process. The goal of the Collaborative Group will be to develop a proposed action for the U.S. Forest Service to consider by Dec., 2018.
Previous meetings were hosted by the U.S. Forest Service. The primary focus of all meetings has been collaborating and cooperating towards prairie dog colony management on private, state, and Federal lands within and near the Thunder Basin National Grassland.
Past and present meetings are part of a collaborative effort in northeastern Wyoming, which encourages open, inclusive, transparent, and consistent communications with all interested parties, specifically neighbors and users of National Forest System lands within and near the Grassland.
Online information on Thunder Basin Prairie Dog Colony Management by the U.S. Forest Service can be found here, fs.usda.gov/goto/MBRTB/PrairieDogs.