Project Description Country: USA Location: Kemmerer, WY Total Budget: $6,500 Areas of Focus: Community economic development, The environment Activity Type: Education: Volunteer Services Summary: Repair and replace boardwalks, signs and maintenance at the Kemmerer Wetlands, for outdoor educational purposes. Due to years of neglect the infrastructure at the Kemmerer Wetlands has degraded, this was once a really cool educational tool for local educators to use to show students the importance of wetlands not only to wildlife but also to the health of the ecosystem. There used to be a well maintained board walk, educational signs, bat houses, and goose nesting areas, but over time in the harsh Wyoming weather and little to no maintenance this infrastructure is in need of some work to get it back to what it once was. Replacement of boards on the board walk, and educational signs would be the starting point along with trimming or removing vegetation that has grown over some of the infrastructure. Adjacent to the wetlands is the youth fishing pond, and here the pier would us maintenance starting with being sanded and stained this would be a minimal cost, also putting in some picnic tables for families while the kids are fishing. The last thing would be to put in a screen on the fishing pond, this would make it so fish that are stocked by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department would stay in the pond and not be able to get into the Hams Fork River providing more opportunity for the youth of Kemmerer to catch them. In Kemmerer the teachers use to take the students to the wetland and they learned about the natural world. This helped to lead some of our students into careers in wildlife conservation working for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The hope is not that kids choose this field as a career but to learn that there is a world outside of the house and away from the T.V. and that they would gain an appreciation for the wildlife and landscapes of Wyoming. Kemmerer is lucky to have an area like this in town for public enjoyment not many small towns have something like this and it should be fixed up and made nice for the citizens to enjoy. The time line for the project would be to start this summer (2025), the signs would also be purchased in 2025 but the process of making them takes a while so they probably would not be installed until 2026. Rotary is planning on having one or two volunteer days where the community would get to come and help get involved in maintenance of these wetlands. Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Kemmerer Primary Contact: Bridget Stewart Email: bstewart@westernwyoming.edu Project Status Reported This project is "Reported". This means that a report has been forwarded for review to the district leadership. This report is now being reviewed by the district leadership for approval. Once the report is accepted, the status of the project will be changed to "Completed". Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Kemmerer (5440) 29-Apr-25 $2,500 $4,000 $6,500 Total $2,500 $4,000 $6,500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [16-Mar-26] ACEWetlandsRecept3 [16-Mar-26] ACEWetlandsRecept4 [16-Mar-26] ACEWetlandsRecept5 [16-Mar-26] BomgaarsWetlandReceipt8 [1-Jul-25] Budget [16-Mar-26] DJsGlassWetlandsReceipt6 [16-Mar-26] DJsGlassWetlandsReceipt7 [16-Mar-26] FinalBudget [16-Mar-26] IZoneReceipt1 [16-Mar-26] TreeTop WetlandsReceipt2

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History Log Entries 29-Apr-25 by Randy Looper Bridget, Please add a budget of income and expenses to the documents area. Also there are some new district grant requirements. you can see all the requirements along with the qualification training your PE needs to do at this link to the District website. https://www.rotary5440.org/page/district-amp-global-grants Randy 29-Apr-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Creation of project page. 29-Apr-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 29-Apr-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project signed by Bridget Stewart. 29-Apr-25 by Jaycee Romrell System Entry: Project signed by Jaycee Romrell. 30-Apr-25 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Amy Schaffarzick. 1-Jul-25 by Bridget Stewart Due to the decrease in funding we will cut back our project to include less picnic tables for the area. 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper Bridget, The District had $18,000 more grant requests than available DDF for the 25 - 26 grant year. In order to meet the available DDF it was determined that we need to reduce the 3 tier levels to the next lower tier or $1,000. I have cancelled your signature process and reduced your DDF request by $1,000. You will need to either reduce the total budget for your grant or increase your club giving by $1,000 so it balances. Once you have made this adjustment please start the signature process again. If you have any questions please email or call me at 970-629-0654. Randy 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 1-Jul-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 1-Jul-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 1-Jul-25 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project signed by Bridget Stewart. 1-Jul-25 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Jaycee Romrell. 2-Jul-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 8-Aug-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 29-Oct-25 by Randy Looper Bridget, Can you please do a quarterly history log update as to what is happing with the grant, Thanks, Randy 30-Oct-25 by Bridget Stewart All of the manual labor is done (removing weeds, staining the side rails, building and staining the new deck). The trash can, bench, and picnic table have been delivered. We decided to wait to assemble them due to them being delivered so close to winter time. Sam has called the sign company again to get an estimate and he is having trouble getting a hold of them. I let him know that the sign is the last thing we are waiting on before closing the grant. He tried calling them again yesterday. 8-Feb-26 by Lynda Brown Please complete a quarterly history log update as to what is happening with this grant. Thanks - Lynda 9-Feb-26 by Bridget Stewart We are waiting on signs to come in from Game and Fish. 16-Mar-26 by Bridget Stewart Project Status 16-Mar-26 by Randy Looper Bridget, Your last history log says the project is completed and you have uploaded the final report and your receipts. When I look in the documents area I cannot see anything but your budget. Can you see if you can see them and let me know. If they are not there can you please upload them again. Once they are in the documents area I can close out the grant. Randy 16-Mar-26 by Bridget Stewart System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.