ON THE HEELS OF a recent independent report that called a proposed Wyoming water policy “scientifically indefensible,” the federal government on Tuesday voiced its own opposition to the policy—suggesting that if the rules were officially adopted by the state, Wyoming would not be in compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. The proposed rules in [...]

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A FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN for southwestern Wyoming — which most observers assumed would be completed during the final days of President George W. Bush’s administration — has yet to be published. And correspondence sent to the Wyoming Outdoor Council this week confirms the Bureau of Land Management’s Kemmerer resource management plan is still in [...]

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CODY-AREA RESIDENTS are concerned that a popular hiking, hunting, and mountain biking spot east of town could become industrialized with oil and gas development, if the federal Bureau of Land Management doesn’t do more to safeguard the area’s natural heritage. The BLM approved a wildcat drilling operation in June—the so-called Rocktober project—in the picturesque McCullough [...]

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WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL MEMBERS and friends got together for a bicycle ride in the Shirley Basin this weekend and visited the Rocky Mountain Power 7 Mile Hill Wind Farm, as well as the newly approved Dunlap Phase I & II wind farm, which Rocky Mountain Power will begin constructing this fall. Laurie Milford, executive director [...]

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WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT OUR UPCOMING road bike ride in the Shirley Basin, one of our Heritage Landscapes. We hope you can join us! Friday, Sept. 18: There will be an optional camping opportunity in the Shirley Mountains. Saturday, Sept. 19: We will meet at 9 a.m. at the Virginian Hotel and Cafe in Medicine Bow. [...]

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THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL invites you to join us on a one day bicycle ride in the Shirley Basin on Saturday, September 19. We will get to see one of Wyoming’s most beautiful areas – truly a Heritage Landscape.   We plan to ride 50 miles with several stops along the way which will give [...]

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DECISIONS MADE IN THE COMING 12 TO 36 months will govern how more than 22,000 square miles of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands are managed in Wyoming for decades to come. Download a PDF of our latest newsletter here

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By Sophie Osborn CONTRARY TO A CLAIM IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE in March of this year, our Wyoming toad is not “gone from the wild.” In fact, numbers of this beleaguered species held steady in 2008. Twenty-seven adult-sized wild toads, all presumed descendants of reintroduced individuals, were documented at two lakes in the Laramie Valley [...]

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