Author: Brooke Ortel

The University of Wyoming’s Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems (IMAGINE) has released two short films highlighting cheatgrass management efforts in Carbon and Sublette counties. These films are the latest installments in an ongoing seven-part series highlighting collaborative efforts to “defend the core” from invasive annual grasses like cheatgrass, medusahead, and ventenata.

For those interested in home gardening, growing season extension and small-scale food production, the University of Wyoming Extension will host a conference in Cody Saturday, April 25. Pre-conference workshops will take place Friday, April 24, in Cody and Powell.

The University of Wyoming will wrap up its fourth annual high-altitude bull test with a field day and sale at the Laramie Research and Extension Center Saturday, March 28.

With lambing season in full swing, the University of Wyoming Extension has published a new online resource for producers seeking to minimize pregnancy loss in their flocks.

In the inaugural U.S. Governors Cup Robotics Tournament last weekend, a Laramie County 4-H team brought Wyoming youth into the national spotlight, highlighting the state’s dedication to excellence in science and technology.

The University of Wyoming Extension has organized a series of interactive online trainings for new and returning 4-H volunteers.

Continuing a time-honored community tradition, the 42nd annual Fremont County Farm and Ranch Days will take place Wednesday-Thursday, Feb. 11-12, at the county fairgrounds in Riverton.

Wyoming’s Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP), which provides free nutrition and physical activity education to residents with limited resources, has shifted from a county-based model to a regional structure in response to a loss of federal funding.

The University of Wyoming Extension has published a new interview-based report identifying key changes, challenges, and opportunities encountered by ranchers in Wyoming’s Upper Wind River Basin.

For new and current 4-H volunteers, the University of Wyoming Extension will offer an in-person training opportunity in Buffalo Saturday, Jan. 31.

Chase Markel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student from Wheatland, is harnessing artificial intelligence to transform how animal scientists study risk factors for congestive heart failure in cattle.

For Wyoming commercial pesticide applicators seeking to renew a valid license before it expires and for new commercial applicators seeking in-person education, a conference will be held at the Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center in Casper starting Tuesday, Jan. 20.

Drea Hineman, a University of Wyoming student from Gillette, has earned regional recognition for her innovative space-farming research supported by NASA. As a Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium research fellow, Hineman studies sustainable food production in reduced-gravity environments—in other words, farming in space.

Whitebark pines tend to grow slowly and live long, sometimes surviving for more than 1,000 years. But, as extreme weather events increase in both frequency and severity, whitebark pines have grown increasingly vulnerable to extinction. According to a new study led by UW researchers, this heightened risk is partly because many different white-bark pine populations are responding to environmental changes in sync.