Wyoming Wilderness Association

Wyoming Wilderness Association Protecting our Wyoming public wildlands through education, advocacy, and stewardship.

Started in 1979 as a group of local wilderness advocates who envisioned the passage of the Wyoming Wilderness Act. This small volunteer, grassroots group began educating, training, and organizing Wyoming citizens to secure the passage of the 1984 Wyoming Wilderness Act. The Act permanently protected 1.1 million acres of ecologically diverse, wild landscapes. WWA was re-started and incorporated wit

h the State of Wyoming in 1994 to serve as a local voice for the protection of Wilderness and roadless areas.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced S.140 yesterday, with an amendment tacked on by Utah Senator ...
06/11/2026

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced S.140 yesterday, with an amendment tacked on by Utah Senator Mike Lee in the eleventh hour, that would nullify the 2001 Roadless Rule.

Thank you to everyone who rallied to oppose this amendment so quickly, and to the senators on the committee who spoke in defense of the Roadless Rule.

The bill now moves before the full Senate, where it will need sixty votes to advance before it can move to the House. Call your senators today and tell them to vote against S.140 as long as Lee's amendment remains attached!

More details can be found on our website:

https://www.wildwyo.org/news/update%3A-senator-lee-amendment-to-nullify-roadless-rule-advances

Utah Senator Mike Lee has added an amendment to S.140, "The Wildfire Prevention Act," that would disregard the voice of ...
06/09/2026

Utah Senator Mike Lee has added an amendment to S.140, "The Wildfire Prevention Act," that would disregard the voice of the American people and cause irreparable harm to our public lands by nullifying the 2001 Roadless Rule.

For twenty-five years, the Roadless Conservation Rule has safeguarded nearly fifty-eight million acres of forests nationwide from new permanent roads and large-scale industrial development, including over three million acres in Wyoming. These Areas encompass some our of cleanest air and water reserves, most comprehensive habitat, and unparalleled opportunities for recreation. ⁠

The Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee will be voting on this bill TOMORROW, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Call ALL offices of committee members TODAY. Numbers, call scripts, and more information can be found on our website:

www.wildwyo.org/news/oppose-lee-amendment-that-would-nullify-roadless-rule

Join us June 15 for our next "outing," a virtual Solitude Monitoring training in collaboration with Great Old Broads for...
06/05/2026

Join us June 15 for our next "outing," a virtual Solitude Monitoring training in collaboration with Great Old Broads for Wilderness and our agency partners.

Solitude Monitors are volunteers who help collect data adhering to Forest Service protocol that is essential for assessing visitor trends and guiding management of four Wilderness areas across Wyoming. You can learn more about the Solitude Monitoring program on our website:

https://www.wildwyo.org/solitude-monitoring

Stewardship is one of the most tangible ways to protect the Wyoming public wildlands we love, and a wonderful way to inspire your time outside this summer. We hope to see you out there!

It’s June, and that means our WWA summer outings season has arrived! We are excited to get out into our Wyoming public w...
06/02/2026

It’s June, and that means our WWA summer outings season has arrived! We are excited to get out into our Wyoming public wildlands with you this summer, enjoying the solace and inspiration these landscapes provide us.

First up on our outings calendar are several Solitude Monitor trainings! Solitude Monitoring is an important citizen science project that helps collect essential travel encounter data essential for assessing visitor trends and guiding management four Wilderness areas in Wyoming.

To become a Solitude Monitor, interested volunteers must complete a virtual or in-person training. Check out the "Outings and Events" page on our website for more details and to sign up:

https://www.wildwyo.org/events-and-outings

Volunteer opportunity! Join WWA BLM Wildlands Director Jennie Mans and the Absaroka Fence Initiative (AFI) on June 2nd t...
05/26/2026

Volunteer opportunity! Join WWA BLM Wildlands Director Jennie Mans and the Absaroka Fence Initiative (AFI) on June 2nd to help make fencing friendlier for pronghorns.

This volunteer day is a continuation of AFI's Carter Mountain Fence Project. Details and sign-up can be found on AFI's website:

https://absarokafenceinitiative.org/events

Where is your long weekend taking you?Here at WWA, our staff are looking forwards to spending time in our wildest Wyomin...
05/24/2026

Where is your long weekend taking you?

Here at WWA, our staff are looking forwards to spending time in our wildest Wyoming public lands - because “Capital W” Wilderness is where we go to remember our “Capital W” Why.

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The US Forest Service (USFS) recently decided to allow chainsaw use in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in...
05/21/2026

The US Forest Service (USFS) recently decided to allow chainsaw use in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho, in a sudden and alarming departure from following bedrock conservation law that prohibits the use of motorized equipment in Wilderness Areas.

The approval was driven by requests from the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association (IOGA) in response to trails in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness being deemed as unpassable due to dead and down timber. This backlog directly correlates with intentional cuts to agency budgets and staffing by the Trump administration.

You can read more about this decision on our website:
https://www.wildwyo.org/news/chainsaws-approved-in-idaho-wilderness

UPDATE: The subcommittee meeting has been moved to Thursday May 21! You have until end of day Wednesday May 20 to take a...
05/15/2026

UPDATE: The subcommittee meeting has been moved to Thursday May 21! You have until end of day Wednesday May 20 to take action! Link in bio. 🌲

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In February, Harriet Hageman (WY) introduced HR 7695, which would nullify the 2001 Roadless Rule. On Tuesday, May 19, the Federal Lands Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee will have a hearing considering this legislation.

We need you to voice your support for the Roadless Rule by asking these electeds to OPPOSE Hageman's harmful and short-sighted HR 7695 bill.

For more than twenty five years, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has safeguarded 45 million acres of wild forests on our public lands. America’s wild forests are our heritage, protecting clean drinking water, wildlife, subsistence resources, sacred spaces and exceptional outdoor recreation.

These wild forests, comprising around a quarter of the territory in our national forest system, have remained intact because of the Forest Service's twenty-five-year-old commitment not to build roads in these areas for harmful activities like major logging operations or oil-and-gas drilling.

You can call your electeds directly, or use the action portal on our website to write to them. More talking points and details about both the Roadless Rule and HR 7695 can also be found on our website:

https://www.wildwyo.org/news/action-alert-oppose-hr-7695

UPDATE: Due to confusion around a procedural vote, with the “en bloc” process requiring four different votes to achieve ...
05/11/2026

UPDATE: Due to confusion around a procedural vote, with the “en bloc” process requiring four different votes to achieve confirmation, many conservation groups including WWA prematurely announced Pearce's confirmation on May 11. The Senate moved forward with a final vote on all the nominees as part of the "en bloc" package, passing Monday, May 18, at 7:30pm MST.

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Steve Pearce has been confirmed as the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Since his nomination, there has been broad concern about appointing a BLM director with a documented history of supporting large-scale public land sell-offs.

BLM managers are tasked with stewarding nearly 250 million acres of public lands for multiple uses. In Wyoming, more than 18 million acres of BLM wildlands (equaling nearly thirty percent of the state) are managed for energy development, ranching, recreation, and conservation.

Pearce’s decades-long record of pushing to sell off federal lands stands in direct contradiction to the mission of the BLM. WWA will continue to monitor Pearce and to hold him accountable.

You can learn more about the Pearce confirmation on our website, where you can also become a WWA to join us in protecting our Wyoming public wildlands: https://www.wildwyo.org/news/pearce-confirmed-as-director-of-blm

Today, the Trump Administration rescinded the Public Lands Rule, which ensured that conservation, wildlife habitat, clea...
05/11/2026

Today, the Trump Administration rescinded the Public Lands Rule, which ensured that conservation, wildlife habitat, clean water, cultural resources, and Indigenous Knowledge would be fully considered alongside development across more than 250 million acres of public land.

Rescinding the rule strips the agency of critical tools needed to manage land health and respond to growing climate and ecological challenges, while also harming local communities built on recreational tourism who rely on healthy landscapes.

Thank you to those of you who spoke up in support of the Public Lands Rule. More than 130,000 comments were submitted nationwide, an overwhelming majority of which were in favor of maintaining the rule.

You can visit our website for more information about the Public Lands Rule, and to become a WWA member, if you are not one already. Together, we will continue to fight for a more wild future.

https://www.wildwyo.org/news/public-lands-rule-rescinded

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