Despite EPA support, conservation out of New Fork Lake options
As the U.S. Forest Service studies a Wyoming plan for irrigators to draw down a Sublette recreation destination by 22 feet, it likely won’t weigh water-saving alternatives.
Jason Mead
$80M publicly funded dam would serve only 100
Critic says 280-foot-high dam on West Fork of Battle Creek doesn’t make sense.
Study: Drain New Fork Lake 7 feet for irrigation
$12.7 million plan would allow 94 irrigators to raise 530 more cows in the drainage. Conservation alternatives have not been completely weighed.
