The Wyoming Game and Fish is working with several energy companies to repurpose surplus pipe for the benefit of wildlife. The department, in partnership with western Wyoming energy companies, is installing several miles of wildlife-friendly fence within a key big game migration corridor near Pinedale.
The old, traditional barbed-wire fences, that can often entangle big game animals, are being converted to pipe fence thanks to significant donations of old drill pipe from local energy companies including Ultra Petroleum, Questar Energy & Production, Pinedale Energy Partners, Jonah Energy and Chevron Corporation.
Currently, Game and Fish personnel and contractors have completed four miles of boundary fence on the Fall Creek Wildlife Habitat Management Area with another eight miles currently being constructed at the Soda Lake Wildlife Habitat Management Area.
Over the next two years another 12 miles will be completed at the Halfmoon management area. All three of these Game and Fish owned properties lie within the renowned Red Desert to Hoback mule deer migration corridor along the western foothills of the Wind River Range. It is estimated the donated pipe is valued at nearly a quarter-million dollars.
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