The Bureau of Land Management has extended congratulations to those who made the Sommers-Grindstone conservation easement possible. Shelley Gregory says the 19,000 acre easement encompasses prime fish and wildlife habitat along the Green River in Sublette County and recently won Sunset Magazine’s “Best Ranchland” environmental award for 2011.
Jonah Interagency (JIO) and Pinedale Anticline Project funding is mandated through the environmental impact statement records of decision for the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field. Oil and gas operators contribute monies into each office’s mitigation and monitoring fund which is administered by the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline Boards.
The remaining $8.7 million was funded by numerous donors including the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Landowner Incentive Grant Program, Wal-Mart Acres for America through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Doris Duke Charitable Trust through The Nature Conservancy, Turner Foundation, Wyoming Governor’s Big Game License Coalition, Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Mule Deer Foundation.
Jonah Interagency (JIO) and Pinedale Anticline Project funding is mandated through the environmental impact statement records of decision for the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field. Oil and gas operators contribute monies into each office’s mitigation and monitoring fund which is administered by the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline Boards.
The remaining $8.7 million was funded by numerous donors including the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Landowner Incentive Grant Program, Wal-Mart Acres for America through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, Doris Duke Charitable Trust through The Nature Conservancy, Turner Foundation, Wyoming Governor’s Big Game License Coalition, Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Mule Deer Foundation.
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