University of Wyoming Extension News

High Plains Ranch Practicum expands into Nebraska, Colorado

Extension educator Dallas Mount

Extension educator Dallas Mount

Grants totaling more than $671,000 will expand a Wyoming ranch management skills development program into Nebraska and Colorado.

Four ranch practicums will be offered per year: two in Wyoming, one in Nebraska and one in Colorado, said Dallas Mount, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service educator based in Platte County and grant recipient.

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Hardtack, pemmican likely menu items for Moorcroft elementary students

Hard tack

Hardtack

Pemmican, hardtack, sourdough biscuits and rattlesnake stew (in name only) will be on the menu for at least a few days this fall for Moorcroft Elementary students.

Crook County 4-H educator Janet Lake will use recipes from “Eating Your Way Through Wyoming History,” a University of Wyoming Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP) publication, in cooperation with the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, that dovetails with Wyoming history taught in fourth-grade classrooms.

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