December 17, 2020
Pepper Jo Six
A program coordinator has been hired to launch the Ranch Management and Agriculture Leadership Program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.
Pepper Jo Six is being contracted by the college to work with stakeholders across the region and faculty members to get the program off the ground. The appointment was announced during the Wyoming Stock Growers Association annual meeting in Casper last week.
The Ranch Management and Agriculture Leadership Program was created through a $1.5 million gift from Farm Credit Services of America and matched by the state of Wyoming to train the next generation of ranch managers, wildland and recreation professionals and those seeking to broaden their expertise in agricultural leadership.
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December 11, 2020
On Wednesday, a lawsuit lodged by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club challenging a U.S. Forest Service grazing land authorization was transferred from the District of Columbia to Wyoming. The complaint, filed against the Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and their leaders, contends that the approval to kill up to 72 grizzly bears over the ten-year grazing allotment is not a “no jeopardy” conclusion in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as well as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
The conservation groups explain that the FWS first listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the continental United States, excluding Alaska, in 1975. Reportedly, scientists estimate that there are now less than 2,000 grizzly bears left, occupying only five isolated populations.