Wet meadow restoration is slowing water, building resilience, and helping a critical resource remain on the landscape longer. In a year defined by severe drought, water has become a rare sight across much of Sheridan County. Yet along [...]
The Sheridan Community Land Trust (SCLT) has received a meaningful boost for its ongoing stream restoration work, thanks to the success of the Fly Fishing Film Tour at the WYO Theater this February. The event sold out, bringing more than [...]
Anglers have a new reason to get outside this spring. On April 8, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department stocked approximately 500 rainbow trout at the Sheridan Community Land Trust’s Big Goose Natural Area (BGNA). The fish, averaging about 7 [...]
On a summer evening at Big Goose Creek, it’s easy to forget how much work a creek is doing, and how much work it sometimes needs from us. Water slides past willows, insects rise, and fish follow patterns as [...]
Sheridan Community Land Trust has completed a major wet meadow restoration project on private ranch land along Sixmile Creek, just outside of Ranchester. This effort is designed to slow erosion, build soil health, and improve grasslands for grazing livestock [...]
The riffles, runs, and pools of Big Goose Creek just got a little clearer—and the future a whole lot brighter—thanks to a generous $15,000 grant from the Powder River Basin Trout Unlimited Chapter to the Sheridan Community Land Trust [...]
On a wintery Friday afternoon, Sheridan Community Land Trust Recreation Program Manager Jared Koenig sat tinkering with his latest creation – a contraption made of steel and bolts that form an articulating jaw that looks like it could nip [...]
The 2025 iteration of the Fly Fishing Film Tour will swim into the WYO Theater in downtown Sheridan on Saturday, March 8, courtesy of Fly Shop of the Bighorns. Attendees will enjoy a fintastic evening featuring fishing films, fun, [...]
‘Community Jewel’ brings together outdoor recreation, agriculture, conservation, and historic preservation at one site Wednesday, December 18, was a landmark date for outdoor recreation, conservation, and historic preservation in Sheridan County as the Sheridan Community Land Trust announced [...]
Land restoration is a collaborative effort. That spirit has been displayed this season along Sixmile Creek outside of Ranchester. There, a large swath of wet meadows have undergone the start of what we hope will be a sea change. [...]
