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Our MissionTo provide noxious weed and pest management services to the residents of Fremont County by applying integrated pest management practices which consider the environment, the economy, and the well-being of our resources.
In this edition
2017: The Year in Review
Fare thee well, Nancy The Bug Lady
Russian olive and saltcedar labor cost share
Play Clean Go
Happy New Year from the staff at FCWP!
Check out what we’ve been up to over the past year in our just released 2017 Annual Report.
The year-end report looks back at the accomplishments and challenges of the past year, describing our many weed and pest management programs and services, and our work with other agencies.
It’s not your typical government document. It’s light reading with lots of pictures and maps and stuff....really, we promise!
Hint: In a PDF reader, it's best viewed with "Two Page View" and "Show Cover Page in Two Page View" selected in the View > Page Display dropdown menu. You can also email us or call us at 332-1052 and we'd be glad to mail you a printed booklet.
So long, Nancy, and thanks for the bugs!
After 30 years of groundbreaking service, FCWP assistant supervisor Nancy Pieropan is goin’ fishing.
Congrats and good luck, Nancy, on your retirement.
Also, congrats on recently winning the 2017 Everett Johnson Award. That’s the Wyoming Weed & Pest Council’s annual honor that recognizes “the service of a district employee who has demonstrated outstanding weed and pest management practices in a Wyoming Weed and Pest District.”
An insect enthusiast, Nancy graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in Plant and Soil Science in 1980. She relocated to Lander where she became the city’s weed and pest supervisor. She then served on the FCWP district board from 1988-1999, then joined the staff in 1999 as the state’s first full-time weed and pest district bio-control specialist.
“Nancy has been a real asset for FCWP. Her experience with bugs has made her a real fly trap of local bug knowledge,” says FCWP Supervisor Aaron Foster. “Nancy thrived at her job, whether it was identifying 10 Culex tarsalis from a pool of 2,000 mosquitoes or leading statewide efforts to support the search for a noxious weed’s natural enemy in Turkey. Her knowledge will be greatly missed along with the positive and cheerful attitude she brought to the office.”
Nancy has many career highlights and accomplishments. Perhaps most notably she worked on pre-release studies with USDA-APHIS to help establish the first releases in North America of Jappiella, a gall midge that’s used to suppress Russian knapweed.
She collected decades of on-the-ground data on Aphthona, a leafy spurge flea beetle that was first released at Squaw Creek in 1990. She also worked with other agencies on collecting field data to help establish the saltcedar leaf beetle, Diorhabda.
“It’s really gratifying to release insects and come back later and see they’re established,” Nancy says.
One of the most enjoyable parts of the job, she says, has been gathering biological control agents from Fremont County’s numerous bio-sites for redistribution here in Fremont County and in other weed and pest districts around the state.
Since 2000, she has monitored grasshopper populations to help predict population outbreaks. And since 2004, she has trapped and tested mosquitoes to track the presence of West Nile virus.
Now she’s looking forward to enjoying some free time in the mountains and in her backyard.
“I am going to camp and fish more in the summertime, and my garden is going to look fantastic,” she says.
Thanks for all your great work, Nancy, and for being a fun, supportive and interesting coworker.
We hope you catch lots of fish and have a blast!
Let us do the heavy lifting
Got Russian olives and saltcedar you want to get rid of?
Call us for a consultation and depending on the situation you may be eligible for a 40 percent cost share on labor during the winter months. A 40 percent cost share is always available on herbicides used to control noxious species such as Russian olive and saltcedar.
For details and to inquire about the availability of the FCWP skid steer crew, call the FCWP Riverton office at 856-2192.
Newsletter content by FCWP Specialist Wesley Smalling and staff contributions.
Photos by FCWP staff unless otherwise noted.
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