Challenges to Wyoming’s Lands

• Erosion of Public Access: Wyoming’s outdoor heritage depends on millions of acres of public land. But access is increasingly restricted or lost, and opportunities for hunting, fishing, recreation, and exploration disappear along with it. 
• Habitat Fragmentation: Urban expansion and infrastructure development are disrupting wildlife corridors, hindering species migration, and compromising genetic diversity.  
• Loss of Working Lands: Ranches and forests that sustain Wyoming’s economy, wildlife, and way of life are increasingly vulnerable to conversion and development, reducing open space and diminishing the benefits these lands provide to communities.

Our Strategic Conservation Initiatives

For over 30 years, our Wyoming team has worked across the state to protect iconic landscapes, safeguard wildlife corridors, and conserve the working ranchlands that make Wyoming one of the last great intact ecosystems in North America.

• Protecting Grand Teton National Park – The landscapes in and around Grand Teton National Park face ongoing pressure from development and increasing demand for housing and recreation. Our team works with willing landowners and partners to protect strategically important lands that keep the Park intact, preserve its scenic character, maintain public access and recreation opportunities, and sustain the ecological connectivity that wildlife depends on throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
• Protecting Wildlife Corridors – Wyoming is home to some of the longest and most celebrated wildlife migrations in the lower 48 states. Our work protects critical migration routes and seasonal habitats for species such as mule deer, pronghorn, elk, and moose. By conserving key parcels and connecting landscapes across ownership boundaries, we help ensure wildlife can continue to move freely across the state and beyond.
• Safeguarding Farms, Ranches, and Forests – Wyoming’s working lands are central to the state’s identity, economy, and wide-open spaces. Our work helps keep farms, ranches, and forests productive and intact by partnering with landowners to protect these landscapes from fragmentation and conversion. By sustaining agriculture, forestry, and other nature-based livelihoods, we support rural communities while conserving the habitat, open space, and ecological values that are core to the state.