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UW Extension offers best trees for Wyoming session in Cody

Sandra Frost

Selecting trees appropriate for Wyoming conditions will be discussed Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Cody.

The session by Brian Russell, assistant district forester in the Office of State Lands and Investments, begins at 7p.m. in the Barling room of the Park County Courthouse.

“The list of successful tree species in Wyoming is defined by two factors – Wyoming’s alkaline soils and desert climate,” said Sandra Frost, UW Extension educator. “Improve your property by selecting trees that will do well here.”

For more information, contact Frost in Powell at 307-754-8836 or sfrost1@uwyo.edu.

Living on a Few Acres information sessions Feb. 25 in Cody

How to build and stock ponds, tree care and pruning, growing and preserving fruit at high altitude, trees for saline soils and defending homes from wildfire are among topics at the Living on a Few Acres workshop in Cody Saturday, Feb. 25.

Sessions are 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. Two, fifty-minute programs start each hour in separate meeting rooms.

Presentations include:

8:30 a.m. – Bill Nye, a private fisheries consultant, will discuss how to build ponds and what fish to stock them with. Joe Scianna, director of the Bridger Plant Materials Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service, in Bridger, Mont, will talk about how to irrigate trees for successful establishment.

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