By Brendan LaChance on April 16, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon is continuing to push back against the Biden administration’s moratorium on federal oil and gas leasing on public lands.
Gordon’s office said Friday that the governor has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in which he criticizes a cancellation of federal oil and gas lease sales during the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) review of the federal fossil fuel program.
“I must state a clear and present fact,” Gordon writes in the letter. “The moratorium on leasing during the review discriminates against the people of Wyoming.”
(Cheyenne, WY) – On January 19th, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming released its Record of Decision for the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI).
PHOTOS: New initiative helping Wyoming landowners fix fences to protect wildlife By Brendan LaChance on January 14, 2021
Barbed wire fences can pose risks to wildlife. (BLM Wyoming, Facebook)
CASPER, Wyo. The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is partnering with the new Absaroka Fence Initiative which is working to ensure fences are safe for wildlife and also functional for livestock management.
BLM Wyoming says the initiative “brings together landowners, the local community, non-governmental organizations and government agencies in Park County.”
The Absorka Fence Initiative says that adding, modifying or removing fences “can more effectively enhance wildlife movement and livestock functionality.”
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