The Power Company of Wyoming has proposed to build a 1,000-turbine wind project on 215,000 acres of public, private and state land in southern Wyoming.
This year your support helped pull 44,700 acres of western Wyoming’s beautiful Bridger-Teton National Forest lands off the oil and gas chopping block, but now we must report to you that our victory is being threatened — and could even be reversed — by the powerful oil and gas i
The Wilderness Society has identified top priority Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and Forest Legacy land acquisition projects across the country.
These scoping comments on the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (Wyoming) were submitted to BLM on behalf of The Wilderness Society, Center for Native Ecosystems, and Colorado Environmental Coalition on April 4, 2011.
A decade after it was first adopted by the U.S. Forest Service, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has proven to be remarkably successful in protecting the 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas from road building and logging.
The western United States is known for its vast expanses of open space and remote wildlands, from broad prairies to sagebrush scrub, twisting canyons and rugged mountain peaks.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently revising a Resource Management Plan (RMP) that will shape management of the Pinedale Resource Management Area (RMA), in western Wyoming, over the next 15 to 20 years.
This report addresses the ecological footprint from oil and gas development. Landscape analysis of Upper Green River basin in Wyoming shows that oil and gas drilling and extraction cause significant fragmentation of habitat.
“We commend Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on his announcement today that the Bureau of Land Management will halt the Bush administration’s 11th-hour round of oil shale research and development lease solicitations. This solicitation was rushed out the door in the waning days of the Bush administration and requires much more public scrutiny.
