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"Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm." - Aldo Leopold
News - Alerts
Following are current news alerts (most recent first):

Protect the Jack Morrow Hills from Oil and Gas Leasing.
2008-03-10  Protest BLM’s April oil and gas lease sale and protect the Jack Morrow Hills. The BLM must receive your written (not e-mail) protest by 4:00 p.m. on March 17, 2008.  ... more>
BLM Meeting on the Pinedale Anticline Development Proposal
Thursday, Feb. 7th, Rendezvous Pointe, Pinedale, 6-9 PM
2008-01-31  Speak Up Wyoming! Tell Pinedale BLM and Wyoming Game & Fish that we don’t want to gamble with our valuable wildlife and our way of life! ... more>
Help Protect the Clean Air and Extraordinary Wildlife in the Green River Valley. Comments needed by Feb. 11.
2008-01-22  On December 28, 2007, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released for public review its revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for the Pinedale Anticline. The proposal calls for 4,400 more wells, almost nine times the number currently in place, likely drilled at a rate of up to 232 wells per year, and substantially expanding the impacts beyond those originally authorized in the BLM’s 2000 Pinedale Anticline EIS. ... more>
Support Wyoming's Wolves
2008-01-17  The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) is hosting public information gathering meetings on proposed changes to regulations governing trophy game animals and trophy game animal damage claims in the state. This is an opportunity to express your support for wolves and any concerns you may have that the dual classification of wolves as trophy animals in northwestern Wyoming and predatory animals in the rest of the state will lead to the excessive killing of wolves. ... more>
Red Desert threatened by oil and gas development. The deadline for protests is February 4.
2008-01-16  4.6 million acres in southeastern Wyoming, including half of the Red Desert, threatened by oil and gas development. The Bureau of Land Management projects 8,822 new wells. Deadline for protests is February 4. ... more>
New drilling project threatens Wyoming Range. Deadline for comment is February 7.
2008-01-16  Despite widespread public opposition to any new development in the Wyoming Range, a Houston-based company with existing leases is pressuring the Forest Service to authorize a new, massive drilling project in the Hoback Basin of the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Legislation to protect the Wyoming Range from future oil and gas leasing is currently making its way through Congress, but this legislation will not directly impact the rights of existing leaseholders. We need your help to stop this project. ... more>
Cody Wolf Hearing April 19
2007-04-10  The US Fish and Wildlife Service is holding a public meeting to discuss delisting the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies in Cody on April 19.  ... more>
Interior Board of Land Appeals Halts Oil and Gas Leasing in Wyoming Range
2006-09-28  Great News The Interior Board of Land Appeals has agreed with the Wyoming Outdoor Council and temporarily halted a second round of oil and gas leasing in the Wyoming Range ... more>
We're Having A Party!
2006-08-06  The Future of Conservation in Wyoming: WOC Annual Meeting in Lander September 9  ... more>

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