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The Wyoming Outdoor Council is Wyoming’s oldest, independent, membership-based conservation organization. Wyoming native Tom Bell founded the group in 1967, along with Carrol R. Noble, Margaret E. “Mardy” Murie, Dr. Harold McCracken, Ann Lindahl and others.〔''Wyoming State Journal'', Thursday, March 2, 1967. (Link to story )〕 The group was originally called the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council.〔 The Outdoor Council is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization with roughly 1,400 members, and offices in Lander and Laramie, Wyoming. The group's slogan is “Working to protect public lands and wildlife since 1967”.〔See any of various Wyoming Outdoor Council publications, including the most recent (Annual Report )〕 On its website, the group states: “The Outdoor Council has worked for more than four decades to protect Wyoming’s iconic western landscapes, its world-renowned wildlife, and its clean air and water.” The Wyoming Outdoor Council’s stated mission since 2008 is to “protect Wyoming’s environment and quality of life for future generations.”〔Wyoming Outdoor Council strategic plan, adopted by board in December 2008. (Wyoming Outdoor Council strategic plan. )〕 In December 2008, the Outdoor Council’s board of directors adopted a new strategic plan, which puts an emphasis on making sure energy development is undertaken in Wyoming with the “best available technology” and with minimum environmental impact.〔 The new plan also focuses on ensuring good stewardship for Wyoming’s of federal public lands, with a particular emphasis on protecting the state’s iconic landscapes, as identified by the Council. These landscapes, which the group calls Wyoming’s “heritage landscapes”, are all on public lands, and they have “significant environmental, historic, cultural, or social values”, according to the Wyoming Outdoor Council. Because of this, the group believes energy development should be off-limits in these heritage landscapes (see list of heritage landscapes below).〔 ==Wyoming’s heritage landscapes== The Wyoming Outdoor Council has identified the following areas as Wyoming’s heritage landscapes: : * ''All national forests in Wyoming'' : * ''National parks, national monuments, and national wildlife refuges'' : * ''Bureau of Land Management areas of critical environmental concern'' : * ''The Wyoming Range'' : * ''The Wind River Front'' : * ''Jack Morrow Hills'' : * ''Adobe Town'' : * ''Fortification Creek'' : * ''Beartooth Front'' : * ''Shirley Basin'' : * ''Citizens’ proposed wilderness areas on BLM lands'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wyoming Outdoor Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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