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FIELD Notes

Wyo’s representatives should protect Rock Creek

by | September 14, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Lisa McGee THE ROCK CREEK AREA OF THE BIGHORN NATIONAL FOREST is a treasured landscape. Adjacent to the Cloud Peak Wilderness and encompassing a full spectrum of mountain habitats—from low-elevation forests and canyons to high-alpine lakes—the area is unique for...

Come to the Wyoming Outdoor Council picnic, Sept. 17

by | September 2, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Jamie Wolf COME OUT AND MEET the Wyoming Outdoor Council staff, board, members, and friends at our annual picnic 5:30-7:30 p.m., Friday, September 17, at Washington Park in Casper. The Outdoor Council will provide free picnic fare (including organic beef and veggie...

Wyoming revamps sage-grouse conservation plan

by | August 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

FROM THE CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE: By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune energy reporter Gov. Dave Freudenthal this morning issued a revised executive order updating Wyoming’s sage grouse Core Population Area strategy, first implemented in 2008 to help avoid a listing of...

Ride the Red this Saturday

by | 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 | 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 | 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...