Skip to main content

Fossil Butte Wildlife Friendly Fencing

Dates

Start Date
2013-05-12
End Date
2014-08-08

Summary

Project Synopsis: This 2-year project will replace 4 strand barbed wire fence with 3 or 4 pole buck rail fence or 3 strand barbed wire with a top wooden rail at critical sections of the boundary of Fossil Butte National Monument (FOBU) (8,198 acres). FOBU's current fence is constructed using 4 strands of barbed and barbless wire on steel t-posts. A good share of it does not meet the standards recommended for wildlife friendly fence. This project would correct this deficiency in many of the critical areas where wildlife cross the monument boundary. Fossil Butte is within Wyoming's core sagegrouse area, contains winter range for elk and summer range for pronghorn and mule deer. No grazing is permitted within the monument making [...]

Contacts

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

Fossil Butte with facilities.mpk 81 KB application/zip

Project Extension

projectStatusActive

Map

Spatial Services

ScienceBase WMS

Communities

  • Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative

Tags

Provenance

Data source
Input directly

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...