I am a student at Central Wyoming College, pursuing a degree in outdoor education and leadership. As part of my degree, I must work an internship for a company/organization related to the outdoors. For my internship I work with the Wyoming Wildlife Federa
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I am a student at Central Wyoming College, pursuing a degree in outdoor education and leadership. As part of my degree, I must work an internship for a company/organization related to the outdoors. For my internship I work with the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, focusing mostly on a public land management campaign in southwest Wyoming.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revises its regional public lands management plans every 15 to 20 years for the land that they oversee. Currently, the BLM office in Rock Springs is revising its resource management plan (RMP) for an area that consists of 3.6 million acres.
During my internship, I am learning about how to organize a campaign and what recourses are valuable to sportsmen and sportswomen. Hunters and anglers in Wyoming have identified six priority habitats in the Rock Spring area, which include Big Sandy, Jack Morrow Hills, the Red Desert to Hoback Mule Deer Migration Corridor, the Greater Little Mountain Area, Adobe Town, and the Devils Playground-Cedar Mountain area.
The area that I am most familiar with is the Jack Morrow Hills. The Oregon Buttes was one of the first places that I got to experience in Wyoming. Within the first month of moving here, I had the pleasure of day hiking the Oregon Buttes – the landscape in this area is absolutely beautiful, and I highly recommend the hike.
I am writing today to share with you that the process of revising the RMP is happening, and your voice matters. When the BLM releases the draft of the RMP in the upcoming months, I would urge you to comment on the plan by sharing your thoughts on the landmarks you care about in southwest Wyoming, what they mean to you personally, and why they should be managed for recreation, energy development, ATV use, grazing and/or for wildlife.
Though my time at CWC and my internship, I have learned that the public process only works when the public actually engages. Please be active and share your thoughts about these landscapes and how they should be managed.
If you don’t speak up now, you may not have another chance to be heard until the next RMP revision, which won’t be until around 2040. Don’t waste this opportunity to share how you want to see the area managed.
Josh King
Lander
