9-15-1101. Lazy BV Conservation Easement.

(a) Authorization is granted for funding of the following large project as provided in this section.

(b) Project: Lazy BV Conservation Easement:

(i) Project sponsor: The Nature Conservancy;

(ii) Project purpose: Restriction on residential development on approximately two thousand five hundred (2,500) acres in Park county in order to:

(A) Maintain key winter ranges and migration corridors for bighorn sheep, elk, deer and moose;

(B) Maintain access to spawning and year-round habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout;

(C) Maintain distribution of Greater Sage-grouse in a core population area; and

(D) Maintain agricultural production and opportunity on high quality farm and ranch lands.

(iii) Project description: Conservation Easement;

(iv) Total project budget: One million one hundred sixty-six thousand five hundred thirty-eight dollars ($1,166,538.00);

(v) Project grant: The Wyoming wildlife and natural resource trust account board is authorized to grant two hundred sixty-nine thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars ($269,635.00) to the sponsor for the purposes specified in this subsection;

(vi) Appropriation: There is appropriated from the income account to the board two hundred sixty-nine thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars ($269,635.00) or as much thereof as is necessary to carry out the purposes of this subsection. Unexpended and unobligated funds appropriated under this subsection shall revert to the income account on June 30, 2019.