BLM and Forest Service leadership have raised concerns that Sen. John Barrasso’s (R-Wyo.) bill to slow the spread of invasive species on federal lands shortcuts environmental protections and praised the bill’s goals.
Wyoming could advance plans for a bigger dam at New Fork Lake, management of federal lands, and a lease that would enable development in sage grouse habitat.
A Wyoming House bill demanding the transfer of some federal lands to the state now languishes as the Senate instead promotes its own $100,000 “management” study.