The bill would rely on a 27-year old BLM review to exclude parts or all of 30 BLM study areas from wilderness protection, the outline says. Wildlife Federation’s Johnson called that provision ...

Location of BLM Wilderness Study Areas in Wyoming. There are 758,044 acres of Wilderness Study Areas in Wyoming, so Senator Barrasso’s bill would only address a fraction of the lands that the ...

For the past 26 years, more than 700,000 acres of Wyoming land – roughly one-third the size of Yellowstone National Park – have been hanging in limbo.

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is circulating a draft bill that’s drawing opposing reactions over its provisions to create five new Bureau of Land Management non-motorized wilderness areas in Wyoming.

It proposes to shrink the territory covered by ACECs from 1.6 million acres to about 936,000 acres, while also maintaining BLM’s plan to protect another 227,000 acres through other conservation ...

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 ...

County commissioners in Park County, Wyoming have decided not to recommend any new county lands be designated as wilderness areas to be managed by the federal government through the Bureau of Land ...

I was raised in Wyoming and have lived much of my life in Laramie, where I currently reside. I am the writer-in-residence for the University of Wyoming, a contributing writer ...