Excerpts below. Read entire report here. by Dustin Bleizeffer on April 15, 2011 Excerpt I: Metropolitan-type smog pollution spiked past federal thresholds 13 times this winter and triggered 10 state-issued advisories, warning people in the Pinedale area to avoid going outdoors — in Wyoming. It’s a source of major frustration and embarrassment for the state. […]

Click on the image above for an interactive flash presentation on the Gasland website about hydraulic fracturing. Possible EPA study might have answer By Josh Mitchell jmitchell@wyomingnews.com Excerpt from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle Read the full story here. CHEYENNE — The Environmental Protection Agency may conduct a study in Laramie County on the potential dangers […]

Join us as we explore and celebrate the open spaces and wild places that make us proud to call Wyoming our home. Here are the outdoor and indoor major events planned for 2011. Explore the Wild Fifteenmile Basin Saturday, June 4, Bighorn Basin Celebrate National Trails Day with an outing into the remote and often […]

  By Jamie Wolf The Wyoming Outdoor Council is co-hosting a FREE showing of the 2011 Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland and we invite you to attend. When: Wednesday, April 6, at 6 p.m. Followed by questions and discussion with Gasland’s featured Pavillion, Wyoming landowners John and Catherine Fenton. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Where: University of […]

Read the full story here. CHEYENNE — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has nearly cleared a backlog of more than 1,500 unissued oil and gas leases in Wyoming dating back more than two years. Since last summer, the BLM has issued 1,109 leases and decided to hold off on 222 others. It […]

by Environment & Energy Daily on March 29, 2011 Read the full story here. By Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Excerpt: The oil and gas industry has nearly 7,200 permits to drill on public lands that it has yet to use, according to Bureau of Land Management data obtained by Greenwire. The unused, but still valid, […]

Photo by Daveeza Applying the lessons to Wyoming By Steve Jones THE EARTHQUAKE AND NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN may have its repercussions here in Wyoming. Whether a dampened enthusiasm for nuclear power will ultimately decrease the demand for and the price of uranium remains to be seen. But we can all learn some important lessons […]

THE WIND RIVER BASIN BOUNDS the southeastern edge of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and is one of the richest wildlife areas remaining in the Northern Rockies. Its public lands contain some of America’s finest wildlife habitats, intact historic trails, dramatic open spaces, and wildlands. These priceless values remain because development here has been relatively minimal […]

Calling all facebook users By Jamie Wolf YOU CAN HELP US ADVANCE our reputation and achieve our mission by increasing our presence in the social networking world of facebook. As I write this, 346 people on facebook currently “like” the Wyoming Outdoor Council. Considering that we have 1,400 members, and many of them are on […]

See excerpts below. Click here or on the image for the full story. by Dustin Bleizeffer on March 15, 2011 Excerpt 1: Earlier this week, the call for keeping a cool head over the still unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan seemed equally as loud as the call for alarm. For good reason, nations are not […]