In Wyoming, BLM recommended 42 pieces of land be examined as wilderness study areas, from the 487-acre Whiskey Mountain area near Dubois to the 6,300-acre Lankin Dome in Fremont County.

At issue is BLM’s proposed update to the Rock Springs resource management plan, which had originally proposed imposing conservation designations on more than half the 3.6-million-acre area.

The Wilderness Society map, however, shows that in addition to the Pinedale-area lakes, many other National Forest and Bureau of Land Management properties could be nominated for sale and development.

SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Commission is postponing a decision about the county’s wilderness study areas and giving the public time to comment. This move was prompted by a ...

Wyoming Wilderness Association plans to hold a record number of hikes, overnight camping trips and other activities this summer through Wyoming’s roadless areas. Many of the outings will tour ...

BLM has used the revised policy, which until last month had not been used in more than 20 years, to designate four new wilderness study areas covering a total of 13,000 acres in two recently ...

JACKSON, Wyo. — Wyoming U.S. Rep Liz Cheney has introduced a bill to increase the number of days that heli-skiing is allowed in wilderness-quality land south of Teton Pass.

In the early 1980s, for example, when the Reagan administration sought to open wilderness areas to oil and gas drilling, the author of the Wyoming Wilderness Act — none other than Rep. Dick ...