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"What conservationists have said from the beginning is that this world, and all its treasures, is finite. Treat it right and you will live. Squander and plunder and rape and you will someday suffer." - WOC founder Tom Bell
Programs - Red Desert - Resources

Frontline Newsletter Articles (most recent first)
Citizens Call for Expansion of Ferris Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Great Divide Basin Up for Grabs
Tribal Members Run to Honor Red Desert Sacred Sites
Friends of the Red Desert Runs Intensive Campaign
In the Red Desert with an Indiana Desert Rat
BLM Calls for More Oil & Gas Drilling in Heart of Red Desert
New Report Confirms Values of Red Desert
Multiple Use or Multiple Abuse in the Red Desert?
Red Desert Elk Herd Threatened by Oil & Gas Development
Can We Save the "Wild Heart of the West"?
Red Desert Dreams
Red Desert Protection Update
As the Sun Sets on the Red Desert...
Last Chance to Save the Red Desert?
Saving the Red Desert: 50,000 Antelope Can't be Wrong

WOC Alerts

Industrial Project Threatens Adobe Town
Help Protect the Wild Places and Wildlife of the Great Divide!
BLM Calls for Development of Wild Heart of Red Desert With Jack Morrow Plan

Brochures
Wyoming's Red Desert - Wild Heart of the West (published 2003 - 2.0MB pdf)
Wyoming's Red Desert - Wild Heart of the West (published 2000 - 400KB pdf)

Reports
Jack Morrow Hills Special Values (39MB pdf) (available at Friends of the Red Desert website)
Resources of the Red Desert and Jack Morrow Hills (1.7MB pdf)

Proposals
Citizens' Wildlife and Wildlands Alternative for the Jack Morrow Hills (published May 2003; 250KB)
Citizens' Western Heritage Alternative for the Great Divide (published April 2003; 520KB)

Fact Sheets
Jack Morrow Hills Wilderness Fact Sheet (52KB)

Links
Friends of the Red Desert website
BLM's Jack Morrow Hills website
BLM, Rawlins RMP
BLM, Rawlins Office
BLM documents: Desolation Flats
BLM documents: Seminoe
BLM documents: Seminoe NEPA
BLM documents: Atlantic Rim
BLM documents: Hanna Draw Coalbed Methane Exploration Project

Red Desert Article Links (outside our website)
Coalbed Methane BOOM published in High Country News
The Last Lonesome Place published in NRDC's OnEarth magazine
Ten Regions at Risk published in Mother Jones magazine
Endangered Landscape published in The New York Times Magazine (June 30, 2002)

The Red Desert on video
The BBC came to Lander and the Red Desert in April 2001 to report on the Bush energy policy and the Red Desert. See the 9 minute video including striking views of the Red Desert and its wildlife, as well as the British perspective on some of the issues we face nationally and locally.

View the video (requires RealPlayer; download the viewer here) or read the transcript.


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