The Great Outdoors

  • In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution

    Ralph Maughan

    Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming- It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution. In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution. By…

  • Natural gas drilling proposal in Wyoming Range gets 40,000 comments!!

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming folks love the Wyoming Range and fear fracking- An unprecedented number of comments came in on the Plains Exploration & Production Co.’s (PXP) plan for up to 136 gas wells south of Bondurant near Noble Basin. Most of the Wyoming and adjacent Salt River Range has been withdrawn from oil and gas leasing/drilling by…

  • Western Montana: Biologists hunt for fisher hair in Fish Creek

    Ralph Maughan

    They must be nearby. Ken Cole saw one cross Highway 12 about 40 miles SW just the other day- Biologists hunt for fisher hair in Fish Creek. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian. “The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness appears to be such good fisher habitat that it may hold the last original Montana and Idaho species – unrelated to…

  • Forest Service rejects oil, gas leases in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Oil and gas development of the Wyoming Mountain Range is very unpopular- Folks in NW Wyoming are rejoicing that the Bridger-Teton National Forest has announced the rejection of some of  the last of the requested natural gas leases in the Wyoming Mountain Range 20 miles NW of Pinedale (30 miles southeast of Jackson Hole). Forest…

  • Judge upholds ban on motorized travel in Badger-Two Medicine roadless area

    Ralph Maughan

    Motorbikes, ATV interests rebuffed for large roadless area between Glacier N.P. and Bob Marshall Wildlerness- Judge upholds ban on motorized travel in Badger-Two Med. By Karl Puckett.  Great Falls  Tribune Staff Writer. I’ve only been there twice, and just into it a little way.  My impression is that it isn’t quite as rugged as the…

  • Greater Yellowstone Coalition proposes protections for Absaroka-Beartooth Front

    Ralph Maughan

    Plan might copy relatively successful effort to conserve Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front- Given the very scenic nature of much of the A-B Front, in a way it is surprising this proposal didn’t emerge earlier. Personally, I think it is a great idea. Story in the Billings Gazette on plans to conserve the Absaroka/Beartooth Front.  

  • Groups consider drilling lease buyouts in Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming Range Legacy Act didn’t protect 77,000 acres of the Wyoming Range. New approach to be tried? A lot of folks thought the tremendous victory of The Wyoming Range Legacy Act signed by President Obama last year stopping new oil or gas leasing on 1.2 million acres in the Wyoming Range and Salt River Ranges…

  • Bighorns transplanted to WY Seminoe Mountains doing well

    Ralph Maughan

    . . . and another transplant to this obscure mountain range planned- We’ve been following this for about a year now, and it’s good to hear good news on bighorn sheep because so much has been bad. Article on the transplants. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star-Tribune in the Billings Gazette. Seminoe Mountains BLM photo

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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