CASPER — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department awarded the Powder River Energy Corporation — PRECorp — as the recipient of the 2024 Industry Wildlife Stewardship Award. 

This award recognizes private companies in Wyoming who have significantly contributed to wildlife stewardship projects, and have collaborated with Game and Fish to go above and beyond standard regulatory requirements to help conserve habitat and wildlife in the state. Recipients for this award are selected from nominations submitted by Game and Fish personnel.

During the award presentation, Game and Fish Director Angi Bruce noted that PRECorp’s environmental planning process takes into consideration the unique, potential impacts and risks to avian species that can be linked to power lines and associated infrastructure.

“PRECorp makes wildlife and wildlife safety a daily part of their operations,” Bruce said. “It is common practice for this company to voluntarily redesign projects in the planning stages if it is determined the impacts to wildlife and wildlife habitat will not be adequately mitigated.”

PRECorp’s conservation efforts include a development and implementation of its own internal Avian Protection Plan and Sage-grouse Protection Plan, which was implemented in 2005 and 2008, respectively. The company is currently an active member of the Northeast Wyoming Sage-Grouse Local Working Group, and has previously served on the Governor’s Sage-Grouse Implementation Team.

PRECorp program manager Brenda Green expressed the company's excitement about receiving the award, and viewed it as a clear reminder that its ongoing conservation projects and efforts are far from complete.

“We see this award as recognition not as much for what we have done, but for what we will continue to do,” Green said. “We see this as a call to continue to keep improving our efforts and keep improving our engineering and the processes we have in place. We are committed to maintain and remain a consistent partner in conservation with Game and Fish.”

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