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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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