Community volunteers join forces to restore damaged rangeland

Joe Oneida helps plant Wyoming sagebrush and bitterbrush seedlings during last week's rangeland restoration project.

The hillsides east of King Hill were starting to green up after several weeks of above average temperatures. Tiny buttercups, barely visible until people were standing over them, pushed up through patches of grass.

But the springtime hillsides were missing something in their upper reaches -- sagebrush and bitterbrush that once flourished along the slopes. The native plants were victims of a large-scale range fire that raced through the area in 2009.

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