District Staff

Nancy Borton—District Manager

Nancy Borton started her 27th year with the 3 Goshen County Districts as of July of 2011. She has been honored to be the Employee of the Year once and Area II employee four times during her service with the Districts. Nancy is in charge of the day to day operations of the Districts’ and supervises the operations of other staff members. She is responsible for carrying out the plans of the District and activities of the districts with

Goshen County Conservation Districts

the appropriate state and federal planning and action agencies. She is responsible for applying for and working up proposals for grants to help fund projects the district wants to accomplish but does not have funding for and has been very successful in obtaining several throughout the past 27 years with the district She is responsible for the preparation of the

Annual Plan and Report, Budget, Long Range Plan, Audits and other financial requirements with WDA and WACD as well as other programs as requested by the Board. She also serves as a representative of the Boards at meetings, etc. as requested. Nancy enjoys the variety of her duties with the districts and the programs they are involved with.

Karri Ellis—District Secretary/Education Coordinator

This was Karri’s 4th year with the District as their District Secretary and Education Coordinator. Karri was presented with the Area II Employee award in 2010.

Being raised in the area and now living on a farm near Lingle with her husband, she is very familiar with the ag and farming industry. With that experience as her background she has been very active and creative in the educational presentations she has presented to school kids and organization throughout the past two years. Karri has taken over the responsibility of publishing the district’s newsletter on a quarterly basis and has been a very efficient editor of the districts newsletter. Karri does an excellent job of coming up with ideas for the educational booth during our Goshen County Fair.

Karri is responsible for taking tree orders on a daily basis and compiling all order information on the computer and placing orders to the nurseries on a weekly basis. Karri also has assisted with tree plantings when crew members are absent. She has worked with over 200 school students in Goshen County on the World Wide Water Monitoring event on the North Platte River & Bear Creek and does a water quality presentation in conjunction with the Ag Expo in Goshen County. Karri is responsible for taking minutes at all board meetings and working up the checks for all bills prior to board meetings as well as the financial report. Karri is a very good team member and offers her assistance where ever and whenever needed. The North Platte Valley Conservation District Supervisors as well as the other employees are very pleased she is part of their team.

Last Modified on January 27, 2012

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Rusty Schwartz -District Conservationist

Kenny Wolfley - Range Mgmt Specialist

Adam Clark – Soil Conservationist Technician

Jerry Hattan – Volunteer IWM Specialist

Caleb Owens - Soil Conservationist Intern

Cassie (Hurley) Wells—District Tree Technician

Cassie Hurley has accepted the position of Tree Technician for the Goshen County Conservations Districts.  Cassie comes from an agricultural background that stems from working on the family ranch in South Dakota as well as belonging to Future Farmers of America and 4-H as a youth.  She continued working in the agricultural field as a sales manager of a feed supply and pet store.

She has earned both an Associate and a Bachelors of Science and in 2007 she graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management degree with a minor in Environment and Natural Resources.