Publications
Your State Land Board (500KB in PDF)
They lease out our public lands for grazing, logging and mining—but won’t let you camp there overnight. They look the other way when leaseholders control access to state land as if it were private property. They give a handful of ranchers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that was meant to pay for damage to the public's ground. They sell off our legacy with scarce public input. They don’t study the environmental consequences of their actions. They don’t even know what wildlife and natural resources exist on their lands. Who are these out-of-touch land managers? They are your State Board of Land Commissioners.
Environmental Quality Council (702 KB in PDF)
Of all the state boards in Wyoming, the Environmental Quality Council (EQC) is one of the most complex and controversial.Wyoming citizens, busy coping with fast-paced modern life, tend to shy away from trying to understand or participate in the council’s daunting business. Yet, such inaction can indirectly increase the daily demands we struggle to meet, as the outcomes of the EQC’s work affect everything from our physical health to our economic health.
The Wyoming Environmental Quality Council’s mission is to serve as a professional, impartial and independent body responsible for passing the rules and regulations that empower the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and four of its six divisions to implement the WY Environmental Quality Act.
Citizens Guide to the Animal Damage Management Board (335KB in PDF)
Until the 1970’s, very few in the scientific community, and virtually no one in the professional wildlife management field, managed actively for sustainable predator populations. With American attitudes towards predators changing, and the increase of people heading into the nation’s remaining wild places, we are seeing a fundamental shift towards an understanding of mega-fauna.
The Wyoming Conservation Voters Education Fund cares about Wyoming’s people every bit as strongly as we care for its abundant game and non-game wildlife populations. So we offer this Citizen’s Guide to the Wyoming Animal Damage Management Board in the spirit of promoting those interests.
Citizens Guide to the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission (540KB in PDF)
It's easy to forget that Wyoming didn't always have politically independent, scientifically driven management of its world-class wildlife resources. But it's more important than ever to remember how we got it and what we must do to keep it in years to come. For nearly 70 years, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has proven vital in dealing fankly with Wyoming's tremondous wildlife resources and the associated pressures while keeping wildlife management insulated from partisan, political debate.
Wyoming Conservation Voters Education Fund invites you to learn more about the Commission's history, current issues impacting the Commission and most important how you can be involved.