The purpose of this coop agreement is to build on an existing funding and delivery partnership to further facilitate cooperation between the recipient sheridan county weed and pest including…

This $500,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 will fund habitat restoration and enhancement efforts through September 2027. The recipient, Sheridan County Weed and Pest Control, will work with participating counties Johnson and Campbell, Wyoming to restore upland and mesic habitat for federally listed threatened and endangered species, as well as other federal trust and state priority resources. Funded activities will include habitat management, monitoring, and evaluation. This agreement supports the Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife program goals to provide voluntary conservation assistance to private landowners and tribes. The five-year project period beginning September 2022 aims to attract additional funding to restore native ecosystem functions through coordinated weed and pest control and habitat improvement efforts across the priority landscapes of Sheridan, Johnson and Campbell counties in Wyoming.

The purpose of this coop agreement is to build on an existing funding and delivery partnership to further facilitate cooperation between the recipient sheridan county weed and pest including participating counties of johnson and campbell and the service on various mutually acceptable conservation efforts that benefit priority landscapes of the sheridan, johnson and campbell counties, wyoming the overall goal is to a create the necessary funding and delivery mechanism to restore, enhance, manage, monitor, and evaluate upland and mesic habitat and B contribute towards population and habitat objectives for federally listed endangered and threatened species, other federal trust resources, state designated priority species and important species of our conservation partners this agreement arrangement will contribute towards the restoration and enhancement of the ecological functions and values of native ecosystems in wyoming this partnership effort will also attract additional funding from other sources restoration of habitats from this project will contribute towards meeting habitat objectives identified in the service S 2022 2026 mountain prairie region strategic plan for the partners for fish and wildlife program, wyoming game and fish department state wildlife action plan, and is consistent with and will contribute toward the mission of the recipient