Posted on October 24th, 2011 by admin
Influential Study Reveals a Complicated Story By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature WYOMING GOV. MATT MEAD RECENTLY ANNOUNCED that by working with state agencies, industry, legislators, and environmental groups he intends to develop a state energy policy. The governor has pointed out, quite rightly, that absent a national [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2011 by admin
Photo by Jeff Vanuga The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited decision today that secures protections for nearly 50 million acres of beloved, backcountry National Forest lands in Wyoming and throughout the nation. This landmark ruling reverses a lower court decision and it upholds the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which prohibits [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2011 by admin
This photo of a Golden Eagle in Sinks Canyon, by Scott Copeland, is among the winners and will appear in the our 2012 calendar. Thirteen different photographers have had their images chosen for inclusion in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2012 calendar. Thanks to everyone who submitted photographs this year. The quality of the entries—from [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2011 by admin
By Steve Jones OVER THE PAST DECADE, HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, OR “FRACKING,” HAS BECOME PERVASIVE in Wyoming. These days virtually all new oil and gas wells are fracked. The University of Wyoming hosted a forum in September on the practice of hydraulic fracturing in order to explore, in a public way, the technical and environmental issues [...]
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Posted on October 12th, 2011 by admin
EPA whistleblower Wes Wilson asks a question during the University of Wyoming’s forum on hydraulic fracturing in September. By Laurie Milford The University of Wyoming hosted a forum in September with the purpose of exploring the technical and environmental issues related to hydraulic fracturing and its associated activities. The two-day conference in Laramie was successful [...]
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