FROM THE CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE: By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune energy reporter DESPITE VIGOROUS OPPOSITION FROM INDUSTRY, it appears state regulators and the general public will have broad access to documents detailing chemicals used in oil and gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing and other drilling operations. [read the full article here]. Excerpt: “I think if there’s an incident, […]

FROM THE CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE: By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune energy reporter Gov. Dave Freudenthal this morning issued a revised executive order updating Wyoming’s sage grouse Core Population Area strategy, first implemented in 2008 to help avoid a listing of the bird under the Endangered Species Act. The core areas represent habitats where special restrictions apply to […]

By Jamie Wolf THIS IS A REMINDER TO WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND FRIENDS that everyone is invited to our Ride the Red bike tour in the Red Desert this Saturday, August 28. We are co-hosting this outing with the Bureau of Land Management’s Rawlins office as part of the agency’s Take It Outside initiative, […]

From Op Ed: “Wyo Outdoor Council has reduced lease protests” Originally published in the Casper Star-Tribune Sunday, August 22, 2010 By Bruce Pendery ON AUG. 5, THE CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE editorial board urged conservationists to reduce the number of protests of Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale offerings. The editorial argued that due […]

By Lisa McGee EARLIER THIS WEEK, the Wyoming Outdoor Council co-led its second summer field trip to the site of a proposed 136-well gas field in the Hoback Basin, in a relatively untouched part of the Wyoming Range. We were able to enjoy some of the basin’s most precious resources, including its dazzling vistas and […]

By Richard Garrett, Jr. ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY is the problem of delivering power to the grid 24/7. Our country demands a consistent, predictable, and uniform supply of electricity. Since the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine, wind and solar power must usually be combined with other, […]

SUBMIT YOUR BEST WYOMING PHOTOS for inclusion in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2011 calendar. Help us honor and celebrate Wyoming’s abundant wildlife, treasured landscapes, and outdoors heritage. Winning photographs will be published in our 2011 calendar. Submission deadline is August 15, 2010. Do you have great shots of Wyoming’s spectacular landscapes, wildlife, and people enjoying […]

STARTING NEXT WEEK all Wyoming residents will have an opportunity to help the Bureau of Land Management decide where and how to site wind turbines and other types of development on BLM lands. Your participation will help the BLM update what the agency calls its visual resource management inventories for the Rawlins and Rock Springs […]

WYOMING’S SAGE-GROUSE IMPLEMENTATION TEAM is recommending the state expand the area it designates as “core” sage-grouse habitat. These recommendations will likely be the group’s final product, and they are intended to guide state policy related to sage-grouse for the next five years. The team, created by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in 2007, is calling for Wyoming […]

By Bruce Pendery LAST MONTH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR finalized reforms to its onshore oil and gas leasing program. The reforms will modify the way the Bureau of Land Management goes about leasing public lands for oil and natural gas development. The federal Bureau of Land Management issued two “instruction memoranda” to finalize […]