Every month, we plan to feature a submitted photo on our social media channels and in our email newsletter, in addition to the potential to see your photo in the 2023 Outdoor Council calendar.
FIELD NOTES
Update on the last of the wild film screenings
Thanks to all of you who joined us in Riverton, Rock Springs, and Laramie for the first three screenings of Last of the Wild: A Red Desert Story. The turnout in these venues was robust and much of the feedback we’ve heard was overwhelmingly positive.I’m writing to respond to questions about the postponement of the Pinedale and […]
Marking a new milestone in the Outdoor Council’s 56-year history
A message from Paul Howard, president of the Board of Directors. April 28, 2023 Dear friends, Today is an inspiring time to be part of the Wyoming Outdoor Council. While we still embody the hardscrabble spirit of our founder Tom Bell and those early days as a home-grown Wyoming conservation group, we’ve also matured as […]
“Last of the Wild” premieres April 22 in Riverton
Last of the Wild brings the Red Desert to the big screen.
Beers & Bills is coming to a town near you!
Join the Wyoming Outdoor Council staff to learn about key bills, review our Conservation Vote Report, and find out what’s to come for the legislature in the months ahead.
It’s time to enact the oil and gas leasing reforms called for by Congress
Finalizing these reforms will ease the burden on taxpayers, protect wildlife habitat and areas with cultural and historic value, and stop “over-the-counter” lease sales at bargain basement rates.
Keep up the pressure to save our sagebrush
With sagebrush habitat in freefall, and ongoing sage-grouse population declines, we should be shoring up the best remaining sage-grouse habitat, not leasing it out for industrial development.
The Wyoming Legislature is in session. Here’s what you need to know.
Lawmakers will confront a lot of new faces (including 29 new representatives and five new senators), a $913 million budget surplus, and perhaps as many as 700 individual bills.
Message from the director: A renewed commitment for 2023
As the year draws to a close, I hope you’ll join me to reflect on some of the good work we accomplished together in 2022. We were your source for up-to-date information on issues you cared about at the Wyoming Legislature. We drafted a conservation vision for the Red Desert and worked to make Indigenous […]
New federal methane rules would curb climate change, benefit Wyoming
On Friday, Nov. 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an important step toward protecting public health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change by strengthening proposed rules that will reduce wasteful methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. If enacted, these common-sense rules would be the first action by the […]