• Bridger-Teton: Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton covers 3.4 million acres, including 1.2 million acres of wilderness and another 1.2 million acres withdrawn from oil and gas leasing on the Wyoming Range. Ranger districts: Kemmerer, Big Piney, Greys River, Jackson, Buffalo and Pinedale. Highlights: Wyoming Range, Wind River Range, Gros Ventre, Snake River. GYC’s work: A new comprehensive plan better manages OHV traffic in the summer, protecting vast tracts of key wildlife habitat.
• Shoshone: This 2.4-million-acre forest in northwest Wyoming was America’s first when created in 1891 as the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve. The Shoshone features some of the wildest and most rugged country outside of the park and is prime habitat for grizzly bears, wolves, bighorn sheep, elk and other iconic species. Its vast tracts include the Beartooth, Absaroka and Wind River mountain ranges.

Read about GYC's role in the US Forest Service's effort to develop a new rule that will guide future forest plans.