Pace determines ultimate impact

Letter to the Editor, Casper Star Tribune 

(May 16, 2008) In the Rocky Mountain West, the race for energy extraction has opened up millions of acres of public land for exploration, industrial-scale roads and drilling. The large number of newspaper articles focused on this big issue in Wyoming is testimony to that.

 As sportsmen and women, the original stewards of our wildlife, we need to get involved in the important conversations about our public lands! As hunters and anglers have joined the fray and expressed our dismay at the loss of habitat, agencies that manage our public lands continued to offer up the places deer rut, elk bugle and native trout spawn to oil and gas companies.  Read more.