Including One bill—Senate File 45—that needs your support By Richard Garrett, Jr. The Wyoming State Legislature continues to trundle through its month-long 62nd assembly—this one a condensed, biennial budget session, which will establish the state budget for 2015-2016. Nearly 300 bills this year By the end of the first week, legislators had introduced 297 bills […]

Photo by Jeff Vanuga   By Lisa McGee, program director Dear members and supporters, The U.S. Forest Service has released its final revised Shoshone forest plan, a document that will guide management of the country’s first national forest for 20 years or longer. Although the agency is calling the plan “final,” in reality, there is […]

  By Amber Wilson, environmental quality coordinator Exploring for oil and natural gas is a tough and competitive business, one with many risks. It can cost a company $10 million or more to drill and hydraulically fracture a well in Wyoming, with no guarantee of any returns on that investment. And there are risks to […]

  By Richard Garrett, Jr. On February 10, the 62nd session of the Wyoming Legislature will convene in Cheyenne. Since 2008, I have attended the Legislature full time representing the members of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and advocating on their behalf. For this post, I thought it might interest readers to learn a little bit […]

When: 5-7 p.m., Friday, February 14 Where: Little America, Wyoming Room, 2800 W Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY The Wyoming Outdoor Council will be in Cheyenne during the entire 2014 legislative session, advocating on behalf of our 1,500 members and Wyoming’s environment. The Outdoor Council board invites you to join us during this important time for a […]

  “Wyoming needs a new approach to flaring—one that better protects people and our environment.”   Click here or on the image of the newsletter to read the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s winter 2013 Frontline.     Other posts you might want to see: MEDIA RELEASE: New Wyoming Groundwater Rule Approved Spring Frontline 2013, the Wyoming […]

Case against EPA’s flawed greenhouse gas rule for new coal misses the point — December 3, 2013 By Dustin Bleizeffer In a recent memo, an independent advisory board informed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials that the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology review that the agency offered up as a possible means to meet its […]

This photo of Boar’s Tusk from the Killpecker Sand Dunes, by Dave Showalter, is among the winners and will appear as a featured image in the our 2014 calendar.   Announcing the Winners! Congratulations to the 11 different photographers who have had their images chosen for inclusion in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2014 calendar. The […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2013 Media Contacts: Lauren Whittenberg, 512-691-3437, lwhittenberg@edf.org Chris Merrill, 307-223-0071, chris@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Expert Contacts: Jon Goldstein, 505-603-8522, jgoldstein@edf.org Amber Wilson, 307-332-7031, amber@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Richard Garrett, 307-349-2423 richard@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Groups Praise Governor Mead, Call the New Groundwater Testing Program a ‘Model for the Nation’ CASPER, WYO — The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, […]

View of Adobe Town from Skull Creek Rim, photo by Chris Merrill By Bruce Pendery I’m writing today about the latest in what has been a flurry of Bureau of Land Management land-use plan revisions and amendments—this one, the proposed changes to the Rawlins-area resource management plan. I’ll start with the bad news: this amendment, […]