News Release
December  10, 2007

UW renewable resource students dominate competition

University of Wyoming students from the Department of Renewable Resources took top places in all categories against students from Chadron State College of Nebraska at the recent joint meeting of the Wyoming Chapters of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Society for Range Management and The Wildlife Society.

The meeting, “Wyoming's Wildlife Habitat:  From the Ground Up,” was Nov. 26-28 in Lander.

The students are in the College of Agriculture. Mae Peterson, a senior rangeland ecology and watershed management major from Pinedale, won the two individual competitions and was on the first-place Rangeland Cup team.

Results of student contests are:

Plant Identification – First, Peterson; second, Sarah Hanlon, Cheyenne; third, Sage Askin, Douglas.

Undergraduate Range Management Examination (URME) – First, Peterson; second, Lucas Bindel, Greeley, Colo.; third, Hanlon, Cheyenne.

Rangeland  Cup – First, University of Wyoming. Peterson; Rives White, Daniel; Dusty Smith, Santa Fe, N.M.; Landon Smith, Holyoke, Colo.

The University of Wyoming also won the URME team competition.

Members of the plant identification team are, back, from left, Sage Askin, Douglas, Landon Smith, Holyoke, Colo., Rives White, Daniel, Lucas Bindel, Greeley, Colo. Front, Pierce Hansen, Omaha, Elizabeth Parrish, Denver, coach Jordge LaFantasie, Mae Peterson, Pinedale, and Sarah Hanlon, Cheyenne.

Members of the Undergraduate Range Management Examination team are, back, from left, Dean Houchen, Jonesville, Mich., Lucas Bindel, Greeley, Colo., Moriah Shadwick, Douglas, Rives White, Daniel, Sarah Hanlon, Cheyenne. Front, Reese Irvine, Lander, Ashley Whitman, Kinnear, Abigail Martin, Dixon, Ill., Elizabeth Parrish, Denver, Mae Peterson, Pinedale, A.J. Royle, Amherst, Neb., Professor Jeff Beck, adviser. Not pictured, Landon Smith, Holyoke, Colo., Sage Askin, Douglas, Rollin Winter, Leiter.

Misty Hays, left, president of the Wyoming Chapter of the Society for Range Management, presents the Rangeland Cup to members of the University of Wyoming team. They are, from left, Rives White, Landon Smith, Mae Peterson, coach Jordge LaFantasie, and Dusty Smith.

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