In light of the news that chainsaws were approved for use in an Idaho Wilderness, Wyoming Wilderness Association National Forest Wildlands Director Peggie dePasquale wonders if a love of the crosscut saw could help safeguard other Wilderness areas.

On Monday, May 11th, the final rescission of the Public Lands Rule (PLR) was published in the Federal Register’s public inspection. The PLR (officially the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule) was a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulation that recognized conservation as an essential component of public lands management. It placed conservation on equal footing with other multiple uses, such as oil and gas drilling, mining, and grazing, of the more than 250 million acres

Two of our staff members made the trip to Cheyenne for the 2026 Legislative Session.

The Wyoming Wilderness Association would like to welcome Ariel Kazunas to the team as our new Communication and Development Director! From a high school stint on a trail crew in the Redwoods of California, to a biology-based college abroad program in Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, to a career as an active travel guide that took her everywhere from the Galapagos in Ecuador, to Patagonia’s Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Ariel has seen firsthand the power of natural lands