Rock Creek - Bighorn National Forest
Learn more about Rock Creek
History What we're doing for Rock Creek Wilderness Values & issues
In 2005, after receiving more than
19,000 comments urging for wilderness protection for Rock Creek, the Bighorn
National Forest recommended the area for wilderness in the Final Forest Plan
Revision. The Wyoming Wilderness Association has been working on building
grassroots support and understanding about the values and beauty of this wild
area on the east face of the Big Horn Mountains in north central Wyoming.
"The Wyoming
Wilderness Act was one of my proudest achievements
as a member of congress.”
If
designated,
Rock Creek would be the first NEW wilderness area in Wyoming since the
passage of the Wyoming Wilderness Act in 1984.
ROCK CREEK ON THE NATIONAL WEB NEWS!!!
Back
in September WWA hosted the media team of Rebecca Huntington and
Melinda Binks from Jackson Hole to document the beauty of Rock Creek
with the interesting difficulties of making new wilderness in Wyoming.
The team found Bradley Lee meeting with commissioners in Gillette, coal
mines in full production and then, traveled over to Johnson County to
ride into the Rock Creek area on a beautiful fall three day tour with
WWA Justin Gerard and Buffalo Mountain Outfitter, Bob Granstrom.
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NOW is the time to urge our members of Congress to introduce legislation for the Rock Creek addition to the
Cloud Peak Wilderness!
| Send a letter to Wyoming's delegation today! |
Your help is needed to preserve Rock Creek proposed wilderness, which the Bighorn National Forest recommended in its 2005 forest plan. Rock Creek can only become Wilderness through Congressional designation.
Wyoming’s delegation must be persuaded to act by hearing from a broad constituency of Wyoming and beyond!
Print and mail a letter to the delegation or use our electronic form...
