Northern Red Desert Permanent Protection Campaign (Years 2 & 3)

Nic Wegner
GRANT NAME:
Northern Red Desert Permanent Protection Campaign (Years 2 & 3)
GRANTEE:
Wyoming Outdoor Council
LOCATION
Wyoming
AMOUNT
$40,000
Year
2021

To pass legislation that permanently protects up to one million acres of public land in Wyoming’s Northern Red Desert from mineral leasing, up to 100,000 acres as Wilderness, and up to two million acres of high-elevation desert through other conservation designations to ensure sustainable recreation, hunting, thriving wildlife, and the preservation of ancestral lands.