Scott Dayton
3D Ranch, LLC
Wildlife & Conservation
The Grover-Blaney United States Forest Service (USFS) Allotment, Willow Creek and Swab Creek state land parcels are located within identified mule deer and moose crucial range. These parcels also encompass creeks that have been identified as Salt River spawning tributaries and a conservation area by WGFD.
Social
Additionally, the use of virtual fencing is anticipated to have a positive social impact, where livestock can be directed outside of designated campground locations, have less access to busy county roads and prevent livestock from having access to surrounding private property.
Goals
The 3D Ranch and the USFS have cooperatively developed a grazing rotation to improve upland and riparian condition on the Grover-Blaney allotment which would have required the installation of 4 miles of fence without the implementation of the virtual fence system.
Ranch
Scott Dayton, 3D Ranch, LLC, operates out of Star Valley, WY and has a history of collaborating with Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), the University of Wyoming, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Partners Program to implement conservation projects.
Project Collaborators
Partnership Journal
Partner since April 2026 · 3 entries
April 1, 2026
RCF met with Scott Dayton to tour the Grover Blaney and Willow Creek allotments and discuss monitoring and management with virtual fence. Dayton hopes that virtual fence will lower complaints by residents of the subdivision about cattle in lawns and water bodies by 50%.
May 21, 2026
RCF and Halter representatives assisted Scott Dayton and his family with collaring 115 head of cows and heifers on Thursday, May 21 in Southwest Wyoming.
June 5, 2026
Dayton turned cows out on forest, sent photos, and a screenshot of his halter app, saying, “Where the cows are at right now would have never been financially feasible for regular fencing”