AIS watercraft check stations break records for high-risk inspections, decontaminations and mussel boats in 2023
 CHEYENNE ? Wyoming once again faced an increased risk from aquatic invasive species in 2023, but remains free of invasive mussels. Over the inspection season, Wyoming Game and Fish Department staff at watercraft check stations inspected more than 73,000 boats across the state to protect the state?s waters from invasive aquatic plants and animals. Game and Fish personnel decontaminated 1,154 watercraft and 64 of those contained mussels ? both the highest since the AIS program was established in 2010 by the Wyoming State Legislature.
New easements protect Munger Mountain to Snake River connectivity
 Image courtesy of?David Stubbs.?
JACKSON ? The Jackson Hole Land Trust (JHLT), The Conservation Fund, and partners announced two new conservation easements protecting 256.5 acres at the foot of the Snake River Range near Munger Mountain in the southwestern portion of Jackson Hole. Chimney Draw Corridor I & II easements are part of larger working agricultural lands contiguous to an existing conservation easement and USDA Forest Service land, providing an important link in wildlife and open space connectivity between the nearby Bridger-Teton National Forest and Bureau of Land Management land along the Snake River riparian corridor.
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