Resources

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Collecting Precipitation Data Provides Information for Public Good
• Ensure You're Not Bitten When Smitten by Backyard Pond
• Featured Landowner: Couple Put Conservation Practices to Work
• How Much Rain Didn't You Get?
• Installing Water Hydrants Can Enhance Property, Make Life Much Easier
• Landowners Can Use Techniques to Stabilize Riparian Areas
• To Build a Pond in Wyoming
• What Landowners Can or Cannot do With Streams, Ponds, and Wetlands and the Permitting Involved
• Wyoming's White Gold and How It's Monitored

Other Publications/Sites

• Know Your Well (WY DEQ site with a variety of info on protecting your well, testing, etc.)
• Recognizing and Responding to Drought on Rangelands (UW CES Pub MP-111.09)

Videos

• Benefits of Snowdrifts: Snowdrifts Make Microclimates (UWyo Extension)
• Successfully Watering Your Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
• Wyoming- A Headwater State: Green River Drainage Basins (UWyo Extension)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Answering Ditch Irrigation Rights, Distribution Questions
• Are You Looking for a Way to Irrigate Your Small Acreage
• Ask Sam: Can septic tank or gray water be used for irrigation?
• Drip Irrigation System Delivers Right Amount if Water Right Where it Should
• Ensure Your Irrigating Method Isn't All Wet
• Featured Landowner: Couple Put Conservation Practices to Work
• Featured Landowner: Working With Neighbors Streamlines Irrigation Water Use
• 'Feel and Appearance Method' Quick Way to Estimate Soil Moisture
• Here's One Way to Build a Rain Barrel for When Mother Nature Opens the Faucet
• How Much Should a Tree Drink While Dormant
• Keeping Your Irrigation System in Tip-Top Shape Will Keep Your Plants Happy
• Measuring Flow in An Irrigation Ditch- Because You Can't Control What You Don't Measure
• Newer Systems Irrigate Small Parcels, Irregularly Shaped Fields
• Rainwater Harvesting
• Simple Habits Lead to Large (Water) Savings
• SKIP Irrigation Pattern Provides Greater Crop Uniformity
• Soil Moisture Sensors Boost Irrigation Effectiveness
• Test Your Nonpoint Water Pollution IQ
• Water Quality Determines Plant Health
• Watering Methods, Common Sense Help Keep Water Where Most Needed

Other Publications

• Irrigation Water Measurement: Irrigation Ditches and Pipelines (University of Wyoming Pub B-593R)
• Landscaping: Irrigation for Homeowners (UW CES Pub B-1198, written 2009)
• Landscaping: Water Requirement and Irrigation System Management (UW CES Pub B-1201, written 2010)
• Living on a Small Acreage in Wyoming( State of WY, State Board of Control, March 2000)
• Winter Watering (UW CES Pub B-1186, written 2007)
• Wyoming Small Acreage Irrigation (UW Extension Pub B-1306, written 2017)

Videos

• The Ins and Outs of Pasture Irrigation (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
• Watering Your Vegetable Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• The Right Stuff: Water Quality Plays a Big Part in Livestock Performance
• Woo-Hoo! I (Successfully) Install a Livestock Watering Pipeline
• Winter Livestock Watering Done Right

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Ask Sam: Placement of Corral, etc to protect well quality
• Beneath the Water's Surface: What Lives in Our Streams?
• How Geology Affects Your Well Water Quality
• How Grazing Management Affects Water Quality
• Proper Well Maintenance Helps Ensure a Good Water Supply
• Test Your Nonpoint Water Pollution IQ
• Water, Not a Dry Subject in Wyoming: Water Rights & Law, Water Quality, Irrigation
• What is Water Quality?
• When Green Turns Mean: Algae, Cyanobacteria, and Aquatic Plants in Lakes, Ponds, and Streams: What's Safe and What's Not
• Wise Care of Feeding Animal Areas, Septic Systems, Landscaping Helps Maintain Clean Water
• You Are Responsible for the Quality of Your Domestic Well Water

Other Publications/Sites

• Groundwater Contamination (UW CES Pub B-973, written 1993)
• How to Sample Drinking Water (UWyo Extension)
• Know Your Well (WY DEQ site with a variety of info on protecting your well, testing, etc.)
• Water Quality Interpretation Tool (this site helps you interpret the results of a water quality test received from a lab)

Videos

• Taking Care of Your Groundwater: A homeowner's guide to well and septic systems (Northern Plain's & Mountains Regional Water Program)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Answering Ditch Irrigation Rights, Distribution Questions
• Ask Sam: Water rights & responsibilities
• Water, Not a Dry Subject in Wyoming: Water Rights & Law, Water Quality, Irrigation
• Water Right Rules Steer Who Has Access to Wyoming Water
• Wyoming Water 101: How Our State Regulates Our Most Important Natural Resource

Other Publications

• Wyoming Water Law: A Summary (UW CES Pub-849R, written 2003)

Videos

• Wyoming Water Rights (UWyo Extension)

Guides and Resource Page

• Wyoming Small Acreage Irrigation Guide (33 MB PDF file)