Red Desert Outings

Two major land-use plans, covering many of the Red Desert’s most spectacular and sensitive landscapes, have just been completed.
The Jack Morrow Hills Coordinated Activity Plan covers 621,000 acres in the northwestern Red Desert and includes notable landmarks like the Boar’s Tusk, Killpecker Dunes, and Honeycomb Buttes. This area has an outstanding diversity of rare native wildlife, including the Steamboat Mountain desert elk herd, wild horses, sage grouse, and the place where the first discovery of the mountain plover was recorded. Join our e-mail Alerts List to receive notification of opportunities to protect this area. The BLM has just revised its Great Divide Resource Management Plan (now called the Rawlins RMP), which covers the eastern half of the Red Desert plus BLM lands extending eastward all the way to the Nebraska state line. Included within its 4.5 million acres under management are such outstanding landscapes and sensitive habitats as Adobe Town, Wild Cow Creek, the Ferris Dunes, Powder Rim, and the Atlantic Rim. The eastern Red Desert contains nationally important sage grouse population concentrations, as well as thousands of pronghorns, crucial winter habitat for elk and mule deer that summer in the mountain ranges and deserts of southeastern Wyoming, abundant populations of hawks and eagles, and the world’s only habitat for the rare Wyoming pocket gopher. Join our e-mail Alerts List to to be notified of opportunities to speak out in defense of this landscape