Right now, we have an opportunity to weigh in on a comprehensive review of Wyoming’s water quality standards, and to urge the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt the most protective standards available to protect water-based recreation, human health, and aquatic life.
FIELD NOTES
New to the Team: John Rader
John Rader, the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s newest conservation advocate, spent part of 2014 walking through Chile’s monsoon rains each day in a suit, knocking on the doors of locals and visiting the offices of industry workers, bureaucrats, and the media.
Member Profile: Katie Hogarty & Bryon Lee
Time outside is important to Wyoming Outdoor Council members Katie Hogarty and Bryon Lee — whether it’s just sitting (without a cell phone) at Sweetwater Rocks and taking in the smells and sounds, walking their dog in the open space next to their Laramie home, or celebrating a wedding anniversary with a backpacking trip in […]
Wyoming must stand up to feds to save mule deer
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s reckless oil and gas leasing actions may be the death warrant for a prized mule deer herd that relies on the renowned 150-mile Red Desert to Hoback migration corridor in western Wyoming — the longest big game migration measured in North America.
Story Behind the Photo: “Snake River” by Kyle Aiton
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.13.1″] Ask most photographers about that “perfect” shot and they’ll tell you that while their craft involves skill, practice, and technique, there is also a certain amount of luck. So was the case for Kyle Aiton and the image he captured at dawn on the Snake River, which we featured in our […]
Energy Dominance: Wyoming is ground zero for ‘energy dominance’ mandate
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.
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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