Global InformationWyoming Outdoor Council information
| Formation | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Tom Bell |
| Founded at | Wyoming |
| Type | Nonprofit |
Tax ID no. | 83-0259411 |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters | Lander, Wyoming |
Board Chair | Paul Howard |
Executive Director | Lisa Mcgee |
Board of directors | Paul Howard; Tom Christiansen; Larry Wolfe; Carol Bilbrough; Caroline Byrd; Darren Calhoun; Laramie Cummings; Sabrina King; George Mcclelland; Chris Pfister; Day Scott; Sean Stauth; Orville St. Clair |
| Website | https://wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/ |
The Wyoming Outdoor Council is the oldest independent, membership-based conservation organization in Wyoming, United States. Wyoming native Tom Bell founded the group in 1967, along with Carrol R. Noble, Margaret E. “Mardy” Murie, Dr. Harold McCracken, Ann Lindahl and others.[1] The group was originally called the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council.[1]
The Outdoor Council is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization with roughly 1,400 members, and offices in Lander and Laramie, Wyoming. The group's slogan is “Working to protect public lands and wildlife since 1967”.[2]
The Wyoming Outdoor Council's stated mission since 2008 is to “protect Wyoming’s environment and quality of life for future generations.”[3] In December 2008, the Outdoor Council's board of directors adopted a new strategic plan, which puts an emphasis on making sure energy development is undertaken in Wyoming with the “best available technology” and with minimum environmental impact.[3]
The new plan also focuses on ensuring good stewardship for Wyoming's 30 million acres (120,000 km2) of federal public lands, with a particular emphasis on protecting the state's landscapes, as identified by the council. These landscapes, which the group calls Wyoming's “heritage landscapes”, are all on public lands, and they have “significant environmental, historic, cultural, or social values”, according to the Wyoming Outdoor Council. Because of this, the group believes energy development should be off-limits in these heritage landscapes (see list of heritage landscapes below).[3]
- ^ a b Wyoming State Journal, Thursday, March 2, 1967. Link to story
- ^ See any of various Wyoming Outdoor Council publications, including the most recent Annual Report
- ^ a b c Wyoming Outdoor Council strategic plan, adopted by board in December 2008. Wyoming Outdoor Council strategic plan.