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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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