Making a plan for disaster management

When ranchers are in the midst of calving season, or cleaning ditches getting ready for the summer irrigation, they don’t have time to think about disaster management.

That is where Kellie Chichester, with the University of Wyoming Extension Office in Albany County, comes in.

Recently, Chichester was invited as a guest speaker at the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District (SERCD) Winter Workshop to guide ranchers through the process of developing a disaster plan.

Chichester primarily works with livestock systems at the Albany County Extension Office, but she has a personal interest...