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6 -- June 11, 2015 editor@newslj.com
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Denice Pisciotti
NLJ Reporter
The United States
Department of Agriculture's
Natural Resource Conservation
Service is one of the few
non-regulatory federal gov-
ernment agencies, District
Conservationist Paul Eitel
explained to the News Letter
Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Journal.
~, Land owners can go to the
Newcastle
Senior
Center
NRCS for conservation assis-
tS: 527 Pine St. Newcastle, WY tance with livestock grazing
-Reception to follow- : : plans, cost share assistance for
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forest thinning, or help with
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Free Electronic hearing tests will be given
at the WESTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER, 627
PINE STRIEET, NEWCASTLE, ~ FRIDAY, JUNE
12TM, 2015 from 9-11 a.m. by Kay Miller, Beltone
Hearing Aid Specialist.
Experience is an important factor to consider
when shopping for a hearing aid. So it's comforting
to know that Beltone has been a leader in the
hearing care industry for over 70 years.
Factor in the convenience of our nearly 1,3OO
Casper, with the state split
in two regions-- one in the
east and the other in the west.
Eitel explained the office in
Newcastle is on the east side,
and supervised out of Douglas.
He said that basically every
county has an office to provide
support and assistance to land-
owners who want to improve
their property.
"Essentially it is like a
grant. They have to apply for
our program and there is gov-
ernment assistance if they are
funded. We assist them finan-
cially, and then also technically
if they need assistance on a
grazing plan or 'what is wrong
with my tree, why is it dying,'"
Eitel explained.
Once the landowner has
been approved, the conserva-
tionist goes to the property--
usually on a ranch-- to do
conservation planning with
them, such as livestock water
and grazing systems or a forest
management plan.
To find out what needs to
be done with trees on a prop-
erty, a forester, Jonathan Sioan,
works with the NCRS and the
customer.
The NCRS has two
main programs. The first is
the Environmental Quality
Incentives program, which
helps with livestock water
improvement-- both tanks
and pipelines-- converting
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Landowner Dennis Patton and NRCS District Conservationist Paul Eitel view the completedi
project. He used WCNRD Rural Cost Share funding to construct a Solar Well pump to provide!
a reliable source of water for both his livestock and the wildlife in his area. All WCNRD funded~
Rural Cost Share projects must meet NRCS standards. A new round of applications for proj-/
eets like these will be accepted in July. (Photo courtesy of Lacey Gurien) 1
drilling a well, cross fences
for improving grazing rotation,
and thinning with forestry to
help control the pine beetle and
reduce fire danger.
The second primary
program is the conservation
stewardship program, which
pays landowners for being
good stewards of the land and
encourages improved conser-
vation of the land.
"There are a lot of things
they can do under that,
including a bunch of grazing
practices and crop practices,"
Eitel said, noting that NCRS
is also available for technical
assistance for writing a grazing
plan or figuring out what weed
a rancher has encountered and
how to deal with it.
Currently, applications
are being accepted for the
Agricultural Management
Assistance Program. The
purpose of the AMA program
is to construct or improve
watershed management struc-
tures or irrigation structures,
and to plant trees to construct
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deadline is Friday, June 19, shelterbelt plantings conmsts
2015. of planting single or multiple
"Basically it is geared rows of trees and or shrubs td
towards planting trees, shelter reduce wind erosion and winc~
belts and things like that.related plant damage, managd
Anyone interested can come snow deposition, or provid~
talk to me and sign up. From shelter for structures, animals,
there, we will figure out where
they want to put in and make
sure the soil is good enough to
plant there and the location is
good enough there will not be
issues," explained Eitel.
Establishing windbreaks or
and people.
For more information Eitel
can be reached at 746-3264 o~
by visiting the office at 1225
Washington Boulevard Suite
in the United States Departmen~
of Agricultural bui lding. :~
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, Windbreak/Shelterbelt renovation: Replacing and/or j
removing selected trees and shrubs or rows of trees and
shrubs from an exisiing ~ndbreak/shelterbelt. Or adding
additional rows oftress and/or shrubs to an existing wind- ,~
brea shelterbelt : -i
', Russian OliVe and/or :Salt Cedar removal: Treating
and/or removing Russian Olive and/or Salt Cedar along
sl eam corridors. l
Irrigation water diversion structures and /or fish 4
passage structures: Replacing or renovating in-stream 3
strue eS used to divert fluter, or replacing or renovating
existing in-stream structures that will allow, h p, ass,age.
Junk the
Juniper.
Braden Jenkins and Gabe
LaCross demonstrate both
community involvement
and engagement by planting
lilac trees at the Post Office.
Last month, the Weston
County Natural Resource
District removed the juniper
trees at the Newcastle Post
Office through the Junk the
Juniper program, and a few
days later Boy Scout Pack
#66 planted Lilac bushes in
place of the removed trees.
WCNRD has encouraged
community members to
remove highly flammable
junipers from their prop-
erty, and offered to provide
replacement plants to those
people who do. Newcastle
Fire Department Explorer
Group #66 also assisted the
organization with putting
the replacement plants in
place, and a total of 27 juni-
pers were removed, with 14
of them replaced by lilacs,
forsythia, Cinderella honey-
berry and snowmound spi-
rea. (Bob Bonnar/NLJ)
windbreaks. The application
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that the proprietary process it has devel-
oped delivered multiple, high-purity Rare
Earth products in an efficient and environ-
mentally sound process.
In the release, the company said the
process involves fewer steps, a smaller
footprint and lower acid and energy
requirements, all of which should result
in lower operational costs. The company
stated that there is no waste discharge
associated with the process, and that
precipitation units and electrolytic plants
won't be necessary. Coupled with high-
purity end products produced, RER is
predicting higher realized value for the
company.
"We believe this advancement of rare
earths separation technology to produce a
product that will meet end-users' needs in
a cost effective manner marks a significant
milestone in the redevelopment of a viable
ard complete domestic rare earths supply
chain in the United States," Vice President
of Government and Community Relationi
George Byers told the media.
He said the innovative solvent extracJ
tion process successfully removes cerium]
thorium, base metals and other impurities
in early steps, producing multiple, high)
purity separated rare earths products that
should be readily marketable topotential]
customers.
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The company believes these recent
developments should facilitate their[
ongoing effort to begin construction and[
operation of a mine in Crook County and|
a processing plant outside of Upton, both
of which they believe are key components
in allowing the United States to establish
a reliable domestic supply of the valuable
minerals
"We believe the Bear Lodge Project is
in an exceptional position to help serve as
a cornerstone for the re-establishment of a
North American rare earth supply cha!n,"
Zink professed.
closed a $3.4 million offering of company
shares and warrants in a registered direct
offering in the United States, indicating
that it resulted in net proceeds, after
expenses, of $3.2 million.
"This financing will help us continue
our work on permitting and certain engi-
neering and optimization studies necessary
to support our feasibility study as well
as continue our test work on elemental
separation," Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer Paul H. Zink said
in a press release.
The release noted that the company
sold 5,230,770 units-- each consisting of
one common share and one warrant-- to
a single institutional investor, but did not
identify the investor.
A little more than a month later, on
June 3, the company issued another release
stating that it had made a breakthrough
in the elemental separation technology
referred to in the earlier release, claiming