[1] The Conservatory is open daily for public and it receives hundreds of visitors each year.

It was funded by private donations from Louis O. and Terua P. Williams and grant from the National Science Foundation to support maintenance and research.

[2] Prior to funding new greenhouse for Conservatory Louis O. and Terua P. Williams has been supporters of the University of Wyoming Botany Department for many years.

Couple first met in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where Terua was a school teacher and Louis was a young botanist.

From 1964 until his retirement in 1973 Louis was a department chair for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.