Assist the wyoming weed and pest council (WWPC) in controlling invasive annual grass in sagebrush landscapes

The WWPC will provide the mechanism for treating invasive annual grasses on private lands to enhance native plant communities, which in turn will improve sage steppe grassland habitat for a variety of game and non-game species. Projects developed under this cooperative agreement are located within identified focal areas for habitat restoration and conservation under the partners for fish wildlife program 2022-2027 strategic plan. A long-term goal of this project is to foster a spirit of cooperative conservation, whereby agricultural lands and those fish and wildlife resources that rely on these rural lands are promoted hand-in-hand. The specific objective to be accomplished under this project will be on-the-ground habitat projects or treatments. The outcomes will be improved habitat for federal trust species, state fish and wildlife species of concern, and other conservation priority species of our partners, as well as improving the local human environment though economic benefits to area communities. We anticipate approximately ten to fifteen sitespecific private landowner agreements will be administered under this project using sage bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL) funding. Specific invasive annual grass treatment areas will likely include approximately 4,000 acres, benefitting approximately 100,000 acres of the surrounding sage-steppe landscape.