Of the 17 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land
Management in Wyoming, 16 million acres have been developed and a
“paltry 240,000 acres recommended for wilderness,” says Liz Howell,
staffer in the Sierra Club’s Northern Plains office. Because these
wild lands are being lost to dirt biking, oil and gas development
and mining, the Sierra Club and 16 other organizations are
developing a Citizens’ Wilderness Proposal for Wyoming BLM lands.
To acquaint people with some of these spectacular areas, the Sierra
Club, Wyoming Outdoor Council and Wyoming Wildlife Federation are
sponsoring hiking trips. Coming up June 4 and 5 is a photography
workshop and hike to Adobe Town in south-central Wyoming between
Rock Springs and Rawlins. Photographer Mike McClure and wildlife
advocate Dick Randall will lead the exploration. Other trips will
take visitors to the Red Desert, Medicine Lodge Canyon, Devil’s
Playground, South Big Horn, Red Wall, the Lysite Badlands, and six
other remote and roadless areas. For more information call Liz
Howell or Dianne Wyatt at
307/672-0425.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Saving the remnants.
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