The Sublette County Conservation District Seedling Tree Program enables farmers, ranchers and other landowners to obtain trees at nominal cost. The plant stock in this program cannot be used for ornamental or landscape plantings. For that, contact your local nursery. The purpose of this program is to encourage landowners to plant effective wind barriers to protect buildings, cropland and feedlots, and for erosion control, reforestation and other conservation practices. The order form must be completed in full and all information be legible. These plantings not only provide phenomenal aesthetic values, but snow and wind control benefits and wildlife habitat as well.  Click the post-it at the right to view our seedling trees available.

For more information on species selection, site preparation, and planting instructions download a copy of our Conservation Planting Guide.

For further technical information download a copy of  USDA-NRCS Presentation: Windbreak design with detailed examples, how design affects snow and wind, impacts structures, and with excellent graphs of density and spacing effects.

For further questions or technical assistance please call 307-367-2257 ext. 100 or e-mail: sccd@wy.nacdnet.net

Pictured at Top: Seedling tree pick up and sorting.
Above: Bare-root seedling trees come in bundles of 50, un-potted trees wrapped in cellophane and wet sawdust.  

Wyoming Department of Transportation - Living Snow fence Program:

The Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts (WACD) has formed a partnership with Wyoming State Forestry to design and install living snow fences along public roadways in Wyoming.  These windbreaks will serve to reduce blowing and drifting snow, increase public safety and enhance the aesthetic value and the environment.

Read updates on our Living Snow Fence planted along Highway 191 to the north-west of Pinedale on our newsletter page.

Also available for download: Sage and Snow Garden Club's "Garden Flora of the Pinedale Area."

Begun by the SCCD in 2000 with the New Fork River, the overall objective is to establish baseline conditions of the aquatic resources in Sublette County. Long range monitoring sites have been established on the New Fork River and are in the fifth year of use. Monitoring began on the Green river in 2001 and the Hoback River in 2002. A "Sampling Analysis Plan" (SAP) approved by the WY Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is in affect for water quality monitoring efforts within the SCCD. Physical, chemical and biological parameters are being considered.

11/21/06 Water Quality Public Meeting Slide Show

Non-Technical Report: New Fork River Basin (2000-2004)

Non-Technical Report: Green River (2001-2005)

                             SCCD Surface Water Monitoring Site Map

The Sublette County Conservation District shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in the data is dynamic and changes over time. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistently within the limits of the data.

The Pinedale Anticline Project Area (PAPA) is located south of Pinedale and north of the Jonah Field. The SCCD is working in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and gas operators in the PAPA on a ground water monitoring program. Since August 2004, the SCCD has been collecting water samples from water wells within one mile of an existing or proposed gas well within the PAPA. The SCCD samples for the following parameters: ph, temperature, conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), water level, metals, alkalinity, chloride, fluoride, and total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH).

Our most recent sampling season data for both Surface and Ground Water monitoring in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area is available on the Pinedale Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Field Office website:
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Pinedale/pawg/DataResults.html

Sublette County is one of the few remaining counties in Wyoming, and the nation, which does not have a National Cooperative Soil Survey completed on private and state lands. The soil survey would produce a resource inventory of soils information useable for a number of different applications. The soil survey is slated for six years and began in 2004. Currently, NRCS soil scientists are in the field conducting the soil survey.

The Sublette County Soil Survey Progress through October 2007 Map is now available. To download the one-page pdf, click on the map or this link: Sublette County Soil Survey 2007 Progress Map.

To see the Soil Survey presentation for our autumn 2007 windbreak workshop, download the .pdf document below:

Soil Survey slide show: explains information collected, how it is collected, what kind of information is collected and the final product of the survey.