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 of Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale offerings. The editorial argued that due […]

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 precious resources, including its dazzling vistas and […]

By Richard Garrett, Jr. ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY is the problem of delivering power to the grid 24/7. Our country demands a consistent, predictable, and uniform supply of electricity. Since the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine, wind and solar power must usually be combined with other, […]

SUBMIT YOUR BEST WYOMING PHOTOS for inclusion in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2011 calendar. Help us honor and celebrate Wyoming’s abundant wildlife, treasured landscapes, and outdoors heritage. Winning photographs will be published in our 2011 calendar. Submission deadline is August 15, 2010. Do you have great shots of Wyoming’s spectacular landscapes, wildlife, and people enjoying […]

STARTING NEXT WEEK all Wyoming residents will have an opportunity to help the Bureau of Land Management decide where and how to site wind turbines and other types of development on BLM lands. Your participation will help the BLM update what the agency calls its visual resource management inventories for the Rawlins and Rock Springs […]

WYOMING’S SAGE-GROUSE IMPLEMENTATION TEAM is recommending the state expand the area it designates as “core” sage-grouse habitat. These recommendations will likely be the group’s final product, and they are intended to guide state policy related to sage-grouse for the next five years. The team, created by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in 2007, is calling for Wyoming […]

By Bruce Pendery LAST MONTH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR finalized reforms to its onshore oil and gas leasing program. The reforms will modify the way the Bureau of Land Management goes about leasing public lands for oil and natural gas development. The federal Bureau of Land Management issued two “instruction memoranda” to finalize […]

THE CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE, Wyoming’s statewide newspaper, ran a compelling profile of Wyoming Outdoor Council founder Tom Bell this week, as part of the paper’s They Served With Honor series. Here’s an excerpt: How ironic, he thought. Red, white and blue. 1st Lt.Tom Bell cocked his head to the side and stared out of a dome […]

Drilling on the Pinedale Anticline, photo by Linda Baker THE WYOMING OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION has unanimously approved new rules that will require companies operating in Wyoming to disclose the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” process. The new regulations were championed by Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who sits on the commission, as […]

By Richard Garrett, Jr. IN RECOGNITION OF THE CRITICAL CHALLENGES that energy development, generation, and transmission pose to our core mission, the Wyoming Outdoor Council has initiated an energy program. We believe this new program is an important addition to our portfolio and will give us the chance to better represent our members’ interests and […]