Consider Completing a Wyoming Public Lands Coalition Assessment

By Jim Hellyer

The annual Wyoming Public Lands Coalition assessment is now arriving in mailboxes across the state. 

This voluntary assessment is used to promote policies which support public lands grazing and push back on misguided policies and/or ideas about grazing on a national scale. Wyoming Public Lands Coalition is a dues paying member of the Public Lands Council (PLC).

PLC is headquartered in Washington, D.C. but plays an active role across the West, as members of PLC are primarily in the western public lands states. Member states, such as Wyoming, gather with other western states to amplify the needs, concerns and positions of public or federal lands ranchers across the West.

The 2024 election has passed, but there remains much to be done. It is important for us to continue to be engaged and provide input.  

It is simply not enough to say the election has solved all of our problems. Solutions and ideas to promote and defend grazing on public lands require nurturing year after year, and this is what PLC does.  

The Wyoming Public Lands Coalition is made up of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Wyoming Wool Growers Association and the Wyoming State Grazing Board. 

Continued support of the Wyoming Public Lands Coalition will help make it possible to continue pressing the case that cattle and sheep make important contributions to our economy, our way of life and our rangelands.  

The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are our range partners on these public lands. PLC is the voice of this partnership in Washington, D.C. 

Thank you for your consideration. 

Jim Hellyer of Lander is the PLC Board Wyoming director and the chair of the Wyoming Public Lands Coalition. He can be reached by visiting publiclandscouncil.org.