HIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION

 

Helping you protect soil, water, air, wildlife and our way of life

 

Laramie Rivers Conservation District

Summer 2010 Edition                      Volume 20, No 4

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

 

 

 

 

LARAMIE PRODUCER RECEIVES

AGRICULTURALIST AWARD

 

Laramie-area beef producer Nancy Bath Woodard has received the Outstanding Agriculturalist Award from the University of Wyoming Gamma Sigma Delta Chapter at a luncheon held on March 27th.  Gamma Sigma Delta is the international honor society of agriculture. 

 

Professor Doug Hixon, head of the Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, nominated Woodard.  Woodard is a role model for young women who want to be involved in agriculture and become successful businesswomen and successful ranchers, he said.

 

“Nancy is the epitome of the lifelong learner and excels equally as a businesswoman and a practicing animal scientist,” he noted. She was an Albany County 4-H’er and graduated from UW with an animal science degree in 1976. The Bath ranch is about 7 miles east of Tie Siding and has been in the family since the 1940s. It is operated by Nancy and her husband, Lynn, and her sister, Bonnie Bath Epler. The ranch runs about 200 commercial cow/calf pairs.

 

Woodard is a member of the Albany County and Wyoming Stock Growers associations and the Pole Mountain Cattlemen’s Association. She serves as chair of the Laramie Rivers Conservation District.

 

Hixon said Woodard continually fine-tunes the matching of beef cow genetics, cost-reducing heterosis, a cost-effective nutrition program built around the ranch’s forage resource and appropriate health programs.  Paired with financial and genetic performance records, “The results are a uniform, high-performing calf crop that has developed an excellent reputation of performance, which has created a demand that allows her calves to be sold directly to the same feeder for several years,” said Hixon. “She does this while taking care of the land and maintaining or enhancing the natural resources used to produce the product. The end result supports sustainability and profitability.”

Nancy Bath Woodard, a Laramie-area cattle producer, receives the Outstanding Agriculturalist Award from Assistant Professor Kristi Cammack in the Department of Animal Science.

ALBANY COUNTY CLEAN-UP WEEKEND

DATE:  SATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 2010

COME DISPOSE OF YOUR JUNK FOR FREE & HELP CLEAN-UP ALBANY COUNTY!

On Saturday, August 14th, from 8:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m., the City Landfill will be open to County residents for disposal of trash, junk, tires, appliances, and batteries, etc.  Additionally dump trucks will be located at the below locations to haul your trash and junk to the landfill for you!!

 

8:00 am—9:45 am—Lake Hattie (Boat ramp parking lot ) and Woods Landing (parking lot)

11:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m. Centennial (East of Trading Post)

 

The town of Rock River will have a dump truck at the County Shop all day Friday, August 13th and until 2:00 pm on Saturday, August 14th.  They will be collecting and hauling TIRES ONLY.  All other items will need to be transported to the landfill by the owner.  For more information please contact County Planning Office, 1002 S. 3rd Street or call 721-2568.

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

August 14                       County Clean-Up

August 23                       School Starts

September 11                 Tour De Coop