BLM reviews grazing allotments

Within the next few months, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Casper Field Office will be reviewing several grazing allotments to determine if they meet Wyoming Standards for Healthy Rangelands and Guidelines for Livestock Management, according to a release.

These standards and guidelines were approved in 1997 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and are used to improve/and or maintain the health of all BLM-administered public lands.

Wyoming standards and guidelines ensure that watersheds are functioning properly; water, nutrients, and energy are cycling properly; and water species are protected along with habitats for endangered or threatened species.

The following allotments in Natrona County will be reviewed this year: Corral Creek, Haughton, Pitch Pine, Muddy Mountain, Muddy Mountain 2, Sheep Creek, Smith Creek, Seven L, Ormsby, McKenzie Draw, Sand Hills, and Smoky Gap.

Anyone wishing to participate in the review must submit a letter or email of interest to: Casper Field Office, 2987 Prospector Drive, Casper 82604; or e-mail casper_wymail@blm.gov. For more information, call Joe Meyer at (307) 261-7600.

Volunteers clean Nancy English Park

Volunteers will meet at Nancy English Park from 10 a.m. to noon today to pick up trash and debris from Garden Creek and the Nancy English Park. The group will meet at the corner of 23rd and Odell at the south end of the park.

The cleanup is part of the City of Casper's Garden Creek Stream Restoration Project and is in conjunction with Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.

The Garden Creek Stream restoration project is funded by the City of Casper and a grant from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality/U.S Environmental Protection Agency.

More information, call 235-8294.

Concert features new works

The Casper College "New Music Concert" is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today in Durham Hall in the Aley Fine Arts Center.

The concert will feature original compositions and arrangements. "I think that the audience will enjoy the new, diverse and different styles," said Jianjun He, music theory instructor, in a news release.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Group holds conference

Students with the University of North Dakota/Casper College Masters of Occupational Therapy Club will host a free conference from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.

The conference, "Sharing the Vision for Occupational Therapy in Wyoming" will consist of several presentations on timely topics of interest to the general public, according to Joe Troudt, vice president of the University of North Dakota/Casper College (UND/CC) Master's of Occupational Therapy Club.

According to Troudt, there will be door prizes and a raffle drawing. CEU credit will also be available.

All presentations will take place in the Loftin Life Science Center, Room 109, on the Casper College campus. For more information, contact Janis Dona, UND/CC Master of Occupational Therapy program administrative secretary, at 268-2613.

Fort Caspar hosts family program

Fort Caspar Museum will host a hands-on program, "Washakie: Through the Lens of Time," from 10 a.m. to noon today in the museum's Multi-Use Room. The program is a traveling exhibit from the Wyoming State Museum

All participating children must be accompanied by an adult. The program and related activities are free to participants, however regular admission fees will be charged to view the permanent Museum Gallery.

Program highlights home wind energy

Gene Theriault, of SunPower Energy, will present a program at the Natrona County Public Library to help homeowners understand solar and wind power and their applications in a residential setting.

The seminar, "Residential Solar & Wind in Wyoming," will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the library's Crawford Room on Monday. Call 577-READ, ext. 2 for more information.