Good Stuff to Know

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Play Clean Go

Help us stop the spread of invasive species in Goshen County. Play Clean Go videos are brought to you by Wyoming Weed and Pest Association.

View & Download the videos:

Horseback: https://vimeo.com/182008951
4-Wheeler: https://vimeo.com/176688636
Trail Running: https://vimeo.com/174395330
Mountain Biking: https://vimeo.com/171154127

Well Water & Preservation

Many people in the United States receive their water from private ground water wells. EPA regulations that protect public drinking water systems do not apply to privately owned wells. As a result, owners of private wells are responsible for ensuring that their water is safe from contaminants.

Simple tests can be performed to help determine water quality in your well. Click on the links below to learn more about how to protect your well and preserve your drinking water.

What's Up

NPVCD Meeting Change

North Platte Valley Conservation District regular board meeting on June 20, 2018 has been rescheduled to June 13, 2018 at 1:oo p.m. at the USDA Service Center. All meetings are open to the public.

State Engineer Revises Policy on Stock and Domestic Wells

Since the early 1980s the State Engineer’s Office has required that stock watering wells applied for with a 25 gallons per minute (gpm) or less production rate be....

Perdue Unveils Farmers.gov, Interactive Website for Agricultural Producers

(Grand Rapids, MI, February 1, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today unveiled Farmers.gov, the new interactive one-stop website for producers maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

NEWS

Niobrara-Lower North Platte Watershed Study

Public scoping meeting was held on

July 20, 2017 at 7:00 pm at Platte Valley Bank Conference Room

regarding the Niobrara-Lower North Platte Rivers Watershed, Level I Study.

View digital information here. View boundary map here.

For more information contact Karri at 307.532.4880 ext.129

or Justin Krajewski at 307.251.0315

Mustangs in Crisis Article

To our Rangeland Supporters:

Click the website below (or copy and paste into your browser) to find a new article about “Mustangs in Crisis”

https://www.westernhorseman.com/article/ride-west/3217-mustangs-in-crisis

REMINDER

Don’t forget to water all water-righted areas of your farms at least once every five (5) years to insure retention of those water rights!!!

W.S. 11-16-122. Powers and duties of districts and supervisors thereof generally.

(v) Conduct surveys, investigations and research and disseminate information relating to range management, the character of soil erosion, flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water, and the preventive and control measures and works of improvement needed, but in order to avoid duplication of research activities, no district shall initiate any research program except in cooperation with the government of this state or its agencies, or with the United States or its agencies;

(vi) Conduct demonstration projects within the district on lands owned or controlled by this state or its agencies, with the cooperation of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof, and on other lands within the district with the consent of the owner or occupier of the lands, to demonstrate range management practices, the means, methods and measures by which soil and soil resources may be conserved, and soil erosion in the form of soil blowing and washing may be prevented and controlled and works of improvement for flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water may be carried out;

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