The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Nicholas and Dorothy Jamison partnered together to conserve 1,200 acres of the Jamisons’ Fish Hook Ranch near Riverside, Wyoming.
The Jamison family is devoted to ensuring their ranch remains intact, maintaining the integrity of the productive agricultural land and wildlife habitat amid development pressure in the valley. This desire ultimately drove the family to place a conservation easement on their property.
Homesteaded in the late 1880s, the ranch has been used for livestock and hay production, with hunting, fishing and habitat management being added to the operation over the last 40 years. This conservation easement protects exceptional wildlife values, providing seasonal range for pronghorn antelope and elk, crucial range for mule deer and year-long habitat for moose and lies within Greater Sage-Grouse Core Area.
The property lies in the heart of the Platte Valley Mule Deer Initiative Area and is adjacent to a key Mule Deer Migration Corridor, supplying a braided set of routes used annually by deer for passage to and from seasonal feeding grounds.
