Wyoming Cases
04/06/2012
Advocates for the West filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service in Wyoming over the agency's revised Forest Plan for the Medicine Bow National Forest. In the Medicine Bow Revised Forest Plan, the Forest Service provided measures to protect two bighorn sheep herds on the Forest, but admitted...
11/29/2011
On behalf of Winter Wildlands Alliance, Advocates for the West has brought a case against the U.S. Forest Service for not managing and regulating snowmobiles as it does other off-road vehicles. In 2005, the Forest Service issued a new rule that requires every National Forest to designate what...
10/03/2011
Advocates for the West recently sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its refusal to protect the pygmy rabbit as an threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is a native rabbit once found throughout the Great Basin, in recent years rabbit populations...
12/13/2010
Region 4 of the Forest Service has renewed grazing permits for hundreds of allotments without conducting any environmental analysis despite harm from grazing to many special resources.
This case challenges ten decisions for allotments in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming within the Greater Yellowstone...
07/15/2010
The Ruby pipeline is a project of El Paso Pipeline Corp., the country's largest pipeline company, which will cover 650 miles from southwestern Wyoming to southern Oregon. The Ruby pipeline will carry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, providing a coal substitute for utilities on...
04/07/2010
The Green Mountain Common allotment is one of the largest unfenced areas of BLM land in the lower 48 states. Located in central Wyoming, the allotment encompasses over 500,000 acres, 80% of which has been designated as a Core Area for the greater sage-grouse by the State of...
