Wyoming National Forests

Bighorn National Forest | Bridger-Teton National Forest | Shoshone National Forest

National Forest Roadless Areas across the nation are valuable for clean water, great hunting and fishing, excellent wildlife habitat, quiet recreation opportunities and old growth forests for wildlife diversity. Wyoming’s contain more than three million acres protected as National Forest Wilderness. There are still more than three million acres that deserve Wilderness designation by Congress. Protection of these areas are critical to the health and diversity of the forests. Wyoming’s national forests are currently engaged in the Forest Plan Revision Process where the review of suitable roadless areas for wilderness designation is mandated. But it will take broad-based public pressure to convince the agencies to recommend wilderness.
 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bighorn Basin | Bridger Country | Flaming Gorge Country
Platte River Country | Powder River Country | Red Desert | Wind River Basin

Deserts, Canyons & High Plains

Wyoming's deserts, canyon lands and high plains managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have yet to see designation as Wilderness. The BLM inventoried their 18 million acres in the eighties and found over a million acres as roadless, then put about 500,000 acres into Wilderness Study Area protective status, and recommended a measly 240,000 acres for Wilderness designation. That recommendation has been sitting idle for more than a decade. Meanwhile, conservationists across the state have reinventoried the wild deserts, plains and basins of the BLM, and found nearly 2 million acres worthy of Wilderness designation. The booklet, "Wilderness At Risk--Citizen's Wilderness Proposal for Wyoming BLM Lands" was compiled by WWA's off-shoot: The Wyoming Wilderness Coalition. Please email us for more information at liz@wildwyo.org.