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What is Gov. Gordon's migration corridor executive order?
This piece of policy was signed into law by Governor Gordon in early 2020, and will define the future management of Wyoming's migrating big game
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What is a poo-nami?
This colorful term has been used to describe the tidal wave of sewage related contamination affecting local waters in Teton County
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What is multiple use?
This management standard requires federal agencies to balance a wide variety of uses on the landscape
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What is Death Valley?
This summer, this location in the United States saw the highest temperature ever recorded - 129.9 F
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What is the sage-grouse?
This year the Wyoming legislature passed a bill to codify mitigation procedures for management of this imperiled native bird
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What is the Platte Valley?
An area working group in this southeast Wyoming valley will meet this month to consider an iconic local mule deer herd
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What is E. coli?
This kind of bacteria impair Flat and Fish Creek in Jackson
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What is speculative leasing?
This is a term that describes the practice of putting leases up for auction in low potential areas
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What is net metering?
This law is what makes it possible for rooftop solar customers to connect to the grid and receive compensation for the excess energy they produce
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Who is Tom Bell?
He was a Lander native, rancher, wildlife biologist, decorated WWII veteran and fierce advocate for Wyoming's environment and quality of life - and our founder
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What is Sublette county?
A pronghorn herd in this oil and gas heavy county will become the first non-mule deer corridor to be considered for state designation
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What is Brooks Lake?
This lake, located up on Togwotee Pass, recently made headlines again for its connection to a toxic algal bloom
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What is the Rock Springs RMP?
After going on a decade of waiting, 2020 still did not see a release of this draft public lands document
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What is a mayoral proclamation from Lander city council?
After months of local advocacy, the Lander Climate Action Network recently celebrated this policymaking milestone that officially recognizes the need for local action on climate change
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What is the Red Desert?
This is one of the largest unfenced wild landscapes in the lower 48 states — and is a priority landscape for WOC
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What is chronic wasting disease?
This prion disease, which affects cervids, was the subject of an intensive public working group effort.
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Who is Dan Heilig?
This Wyoming Outdoor Council staffer was quoted in the Jackson Hole newspaper saying: "I don't want to sound crude, but we're pooping in our drinking water."
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What is 11 million acres?
Of 18 million acres of public land managed for multiple use in Wyoming, this is the number of acres currently leased for oil and gas development by the BLM
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What is solar energy?
According to University of Wyoming research, this type of renewable energy is the kind Wyomingites are most likely to support
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What is Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council?
This was WOC's original name - slightly different than our name today - when we were founded in 1967
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What is the green wave?
This is what mule deer and other migrating ungulates "surf" as they make their way from winter to summer range in spring
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What is the Madison aquifer?
Despite public outcry, the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission just approved a proposal to allow oil and gas developers to inject wastewater into this aquifer
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What is an Area of Critical Environmental Concern, or ACEC?
This designation is used by the BLM to identify areas where special management is needed to protect important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources, or other natural systems or processes
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What is the Blue-Green Alliance?
This "two color” political alliance has helped unite labor and conservation interests to implement significant climate policy in states like New Mexico and Colorado
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Who are our members?
These individuals are the single biggest contributing factor to the success of the Wyoming Outdoor Council
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