A new “energy dominance” policy has made Wyoming ground zero for the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory, top-down mandate to promote energy extraction over all other uses on our public lands. And it’s affecting every aspect of the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s work.
FIELD NOTES
Your voice makes a difference in wave of leasing actions
The Wyoming Outdoor Council and its members are responding to a massive increase in federal oil and gas leasing, working under shortened public comment timelines and defending rare landscapes critical to other areas of Wyoming’s economy.
Ranchers rally for wilderness, against motorized use, on Copper Mountain
From public lands grazers to climbers and conservationists, a chorus of voices that want to maintain wilderness values wonder if officials are listening.
Story Behind the Photo: “Boar’s Tusk” by Ian Cadena
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Deal withdraws 24,000 acres in Wyoming Range from oil and gas drilling
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] In what made for an especially happy Fourth of July, a deal was struck to protect 24,000 acres in the Wyoming Range from oil and gas drilling. This is tremendous news and gets us one step closer to realizing the collective vision behind […]
Oil and gas lease sales threaten Wyoming’s Red Desert
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10″] [Updated July 24, 2018] We need your help to protect the heart of Wyoming’s wild public lands — the Red Desert! In Wyoming’s most recent state lands oil and gas lease sale, 21 parcels located in the fragile, beautiful Red Desert received bids, and are now under threat of […]
Launching the 2019 Calendar Photo Contest!
If you’ve spent any time in Wyoming’s wide open-spaces, you know how it excites the senses: the song of a meadowlark darting over mountain wildflowers in summer; the smell of sagebrush freshly washed by an afternoon rain in spring; the shifting shadows on a distant snow-laced hilltop in winter. If you’re like us, these moments […]
Speak out for the Greater sage-grouse, and our western heritage
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10″] We need your help to protect the Greater sage-grouse from a political effort to weaken the Wyoming-led plan that helped avoid an endangered species listing of the iconic western bird. You can help by submitting comments to the Bureau of Land Management by August 2, 2018. BACKGROUND— The BLM’s Wyoming State Office […]
Wyoming shouldn’t put a price tag on civic engagement
A big part of our work at the Outdoor Council involves tracking the actions our representative government makes on behalf of its citizens. Often, that includes asking for public records not readily available or published for broad public access. Citizens have the right to know about activities that affect public health, including the water we […]
Your comments can help uphold historic sage-grouse protections
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.5″] Wyoming citizens can tell Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke not to scrap commonsense protections for sage-grouse and the sagebrush ecosystem at two BLM meetings later this month. The open-house meetings, to be held in Cheyenne and Pinedale, will provide an opportunity for the public to learn more […]