The Wyoming Department of Agriculture, in partnership with the UW Cooperative Extension Office, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, is hosting a series of workshops in September and October to assist USFS and BLM grazing permittees with issues related to drought contingency planning.  Agenda items will include:

• Financial Impacts of proactive drought planning
• Basic components of drought contingency plans
• Communication strategies between permittees and federal agencies
• Panel presentations featuring local agency staff and permittees discussing drought strategies that work
• Local resources to assist in range monitoring, technical expertise and more

Workshop Dates & Locations:

• September 24 - Rawlins
• September 26 - Douglas
• October 1 - Buffalo
• October 2 - Sundance
• October 15 - Worland
• October 16 - Lander
• October 22 - Pinedale
• October 23 - Kemmerer

More information and a complete agenda for each location will be available soon.  If you have any questions, please contact Lucy Pauley at (307) 777-8788 or email lucy.pauley@wyo.gov. 
The workshops are made possible by a grant from the Western Center for Risk Management Educiation and supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2012-49200-20030.