Access Recognition Program honors landowners with 2016 award
Landowners from Kaycee, Manderson, Fort Laramie and Green River, Wyoming are recipients of this year’s Access Recognition Program. The program honors landowners who provide access to or through their lands to hunters and anglers.
Each year, the Wyoming Board of Agriculture, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, and Wyoming Wildlife Foundation, partner together to recognize four landowners who contribute significantly to the hunting and fishing tradition of the Cowboy State. In addition to recognition at the winter Stock Growers Association luncheon, each landowner will receive a check for $2,000.
Landowners receiving recognition this year are: Joanne, Joni, and Tom Harlan of Kaycee; Michael Vigil Farms of Manderson; Morris and Jeanie Cronk of Fort Laramie; and Robert “Lynn” and Kathy Stoll of Green River.
Funding for the program is provided by the sale of Commissioner licenses and donations made specifically in support of the award.
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission President Charles Price said the Access Recognition Program is a way to say thanks to those landowners who allow sportsmen and women on their property to hunt or fish. “With so much private land in Wyoming, hunters and anglers would obviously have a much harder time finding places to recreate without private land access, and the state’s wildlife managers would lose an important tool in keeping game animal numbers at appropriate levels,” Price said.
Each year, the Wyoming Board of Agriculture, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, and Wyoming Wildlife Foundation, partner together to recognize four landowners who contribute significantly to the hunting and fishing tradition of the Cowboy State. In addition to recognition at the winter Stock Growers Association luncheon, each landowner will receive a check for $2,000.
Landowners receiving recognition this year are: Joanne, Joni, and Tom Harlan of Kaycee; Michael Vigil Farms of Manderson; Morris and Jeanie Cronk of Fort Laramie; and Robert “Lynn” and Kathy Stoll of Green River.
Funding for the program is provided by the sale of Commissioner licenses and donations made specifically in support of the award.
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission President Charles Price said the Access Recognition Program is a way to say thanks to those landowners who allow sportsmen and women on their property to hunt or fish. “With so much private land in Wyoming, hunters and anglers would obviously have a much harder time finding places to recreate without private land access, and the state’s wildlife managers would lose an important tool in keeping game animal numbers at appropriate levels,” Price said.
Wyoming Game and Fish (307) 777-4600
