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Wyoming counties press Congress to resolve wilderness study areas; county-led legislation has moved in Senate
Summary
County commissioners and the Wyoming County Commissioners Association told the committee they have pursued a multi-county collaborative process to resolve wilderness study areas (WSAs); participating counties produced legislative language that passed the U.S. Senate and awaits action in the House.
County leaders told the Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee on June 19 that a locally driven process has produced federal legislation aimed at resolving long-standing wilderness study areas (WSAs) in Wyoming, and they asked the committee to endorse and help accelerate that work.
Jeremiah Ryman, representing the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA), said the association led the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative in the mid-2010s to build local collaboratives that reviewed WSA inventories and made county-level recommendations. “We modeled it after what had been successful in other states. Collaborative process…
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