FIELD Notes

Ride the Red this Saturday

by gliffen | August 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

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...

Op-Ed: We can reduce lease protests

by gliffen | August 23, 2010 | Uncategorized

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...

Hoback Basin: Too Special to Drill

by gliffen | August 13, 2010 | Uncategorized

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...

Energy storage could create opportunities for Wyoming

by gliffen | August 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

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...

Enter your prize shots in our Wyoming photo contest!

by gliffen | July 13, 2010 | Uncategorized

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....

Protect scenic areas: Participate in BLM’s ‘visual inventories’

by gliffen | July 9, 2010 | Uncategorized

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...