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Josh Metten Jackson Mule Deer

Protected: 2022 Mule Deer Hunting Regional Roundup

By Jaden Bales | March 9, 2022

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Field Trips

By Andrea Barbknecht | February 22, 2022

Join us on our multigenerational arts and ecology field trips. Explore, learn about local ecology, and try out a new art skill. You will take an easy to moderate hike co-led by a WWF staff member and an arts expert who will guide you through interconnected information about the local ecosystem and a new art …

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Sage Grouse Lek

Three Reasons Sage Grouse Farming Should End

By Auna Kaufmann | February 18, 2022

Update March 10, 2022: Senate File 0061 passed through the third reading on the House floor with a vote of 44 ‘aye’ and 15 ‘nay’ and 1 abstaining vote. The bill includes an amendment to sunset once again in 5 years. While the conservation community would have preferred to end Greater Sage-grouse farming, your voices …

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How the CWD Research and Management Act Will Help Wyoming

By Guest Contributor | February 10, 2022

At the end of 2021, the United States House of Representatives passed the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act with what most would consider flying colors. The final vote, tallied at 393-33, proved that most reps agree on the importance of this piece of legislation, which Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced on October 19. …

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Wyoming Elk Packout Lander Region

Protected: 2022 Elk Hunting Regional Roundup

By Jaden Bales | January 6, 2022

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A Four-By-Four By 40: A Lifelong Pursuit of Mule Deer

By Guest Contributor | November 16, 2021

Lifelong hunters, my friend Mike and I reflected on bucks harvested one day when Mike realized he had never harvested a solid four-by-four (4×4) mule deer. This year was it. If he was going to harvest a mature buck by the young age of 40, then we had to make it happen. Tine count is …

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Big Horn Armory Pays It Forward This November

By Jaden Bales | October 20, 2021

From Nov. 1 – 30, 2021, five percent of all net proceeds of purchases made from Big Horn Armory’s website will be donated to the WWF’s Hunters for the Hungry Program to help feed food-insecure families during this holiday season. Big Horn Armory (BHA), makers of big-bore firearms, is pleased to announce it has partnered …

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Untouched: The Wonders of the Red Desert

By Guest Contributor | October 13, 2021

Untouched: The Wonders of the Red Desert Why I return to Wyoming in search of wildness every chance I can Written By Trey Johnson | West Texas, USA Aldo Leopold, the father of wildlife management, once stated “(i)t is the part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the …

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Classroom Resources

By Andrea Barbknecht | September 7, 2021

WWF has developed lessons to help Wyoming teachers bring their classes outside and to bring our wild Wyoming to the classroom. If you have any issues, want to request a lesson, or want help connecting your classroom to a local wildlife professional, contact Andrea Barbknecht at the email or phone number below or click on …

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Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse Feathers

Sage Grouse…Bon Apetit!

By Edgar Castillo | August 26, 2021

“The flesh of the cock of the Plains is dark and only tolerable in point of flavour. I do not think it as good as either the Pheasant or Grouse.” These words were spoken by Meriweather Lewis of the famous Lewis & Clark expedition duo, on March 2, 1806. Lewis doesn’t describe a very promising …

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How Do Landowners Benefit from the Red Desert To Hoback Corridor?

By Joy Bannon | August 25, 2021

A Legacy of Conservation Benefiting Wildlife, Landowners, and Wyoming alike Wyoming is home to some of the most iconic, intact ungulate migrations in the world and also leads in recognizing these pathways through migration corridor designation. Landowners and Wyoming communities benefit from programs that protect migration routes crossing both private and public land. No one …

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