Bureau of Land Management NPLD 2012 - Wyoming (9389134963)

The Kemmerer Field Office held a successful NPLD 2012 event to remove fencing treacherous to wildlife. Forty-eight volunteers from the community, KFO, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Wyoming Game and Fish Department and local Boy Scout Troop 64, as well as a Utah Conservation Corps crew, removed five miles of fencing located 16 miles south-southwest of Kemmerer, Wyoming, along Sulfur Haul Road in the Albert Creek Allotment.
The 40-inch-tall fence, which consists of a 36-inch-tall woven wire bottom with a single strand of barbed wire at the top, extends nine miles and it is common to find up to 100 animals entangled in the fence each year. Following the winter of 2010-2011, over 200 animals were found.
The KFO, in cooperation with the private landowner, permittees and the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, planned the fence removal to improve the movement of the Wyoming Range and Uinta deer herds and the Carter Lease pronghorn herd throughout their crucial winter range.


Caption for KFO NPLD2: In this photo, KFO Physical Scientist Richard Fleming hauls some materials.