The Wyoming Outdoor Council’s wildlife program focuses on
conserving Wyoming’s rich wildlife heritage. The Council works
to protect habitat, disseminate scientifically sound
information, and sustain healthy wildlife populations. In
particular, we work to ensure that energy development is
conducted responsibly to minimize its harm to wildlife.
Wyoming’s abundant and spectacular wildlife faces a growing
array of threats. Widespread and intensive energy development,
rangeland conversion to subdivisions and other uses, long-term
regional drought, invasions by exotic species, and a host of
additional factors have eliminated, fragmented, and degraded
habitat. In addition, global climate change is altering
landscapes in the state and is isolating and threatening some
populations of animals. The Council is working on issues related
to wildlife impacts from wind energy development, greater sage-
grouse and sagebrush ecosystems, forest carnivores, Wyoming’s
endemic species, migration corridors, and wildlife diseases, in