By: Megan Mueller, Senior Conservation Biologist and Interim Executive Director Our executive director, Tehri Parker, is retiring. Our staff and board members would like to wish Tehri well in her next adventure and are glad that she will have time to get out a...
Another win for Wolf Creek Pass!
By: Chris Talbot-Heindl and Matt Sandler, Rocky Mountain Wild Remember in 2015 when the Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) exchanged a private parcel to the Forest Service (Service) in exchange for Service land adjacent to Highway 160? We challenged that exc...
Groups sue over plan to poison prairie dogs and eliminate black-footed ferret habitat on Thunder Basin National Grassland
Western Watersheds Project, Rocky Mountain Wild, and WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service that challenges a plan amendment for the Thunder Basin National Grassland in northeast Wyoming. The agency’s plan ramps up eradication ...
Protect, Connect, and Restore Wildlife and Wild Lands
Peer-to-Peer Colorado Gives Fundraising Kit Thank you so much for taking part in our peer-to-peer fundraising for the Colorado Gives campaign! This is our first year trying a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, so if you have any questions, suggestions, or conc...
Federal Judge Overturns Oil, Gas Lease Sales on 58,000 Acres of Public Lands in Colorado
A federal judge late Tuesday overturned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to lease 58,000 acres of public land in western Colorado for oil and gas extraction, agreeing with conservation groups that fracking and drilling will worsen air quality in...
Big news in big game habitat and migration route connectivity!
Big news in big game habitat and migration route connectivity!
A Win for Government Transparency
We just had to post a sage-grouse happy dance (greater sage-grouse here because Gunny wasn’t available to dance or for a comment), because yesterday, we won our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case! On May 15, 2019, we sent a Freedom of Information Act...
Rocky Mountain Wild celebrates Secretary Deb Haaland’s historic confirmation
By: Chris Talbot-Heindl, Communications & Membership Manager Rocky Mountain Wild celebrates Representative Deb Haaland’s historic confirmation as the nation’s first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior! By having a seat in the Cabinet — for the first...
Report: Sharp Decline in Demand for Oil & Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
Rocky Mountain Wild’s new report shows oil and gas companies currently hold leases on more than 20 million acres of federal land in the Mountain West, and data trends show a sharp decline in interest for additional leases in many states for 2020 and 2021...
Oil and Gas Rules Protect Wildlife Story Map
Interactive story map shows how oil & gas rules effective January 15, 2021 protect wildlife habitats.