Wyoming Outdoor Council
“Protect Wyoming’s environment and quality of life for future generations.”
4 funders on the record, 6 comments to the agencies.
The work
What they do
Wyoming’s oldest independent conservation organization. Advocacy on public lands, wildlife, water, and air quality. Works on oil and gas development, wilderness, and wildlife corridors.
Where the money went, FY2024
The work, and what it cost
The program, as they filed it
$1.1M, 56% of spendingThe Wyoming Outdoor Council works to ensure that Wyoming is a state with clean air and water, open space, thriving wildlife, wildlands, healthy communities, informed citizens, and a sustainable economy and quality of…
Read it as they filed it
THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL WORKS TO ENSURE THAT WYOMING IS A STATE WITH CLEAN AIR AND WATER, OPEN SPACE, THRIVING WILDLIFE, WILDLANDS, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, INFORMED CITIZENS, AND A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2024, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
56 cents of every dollar goes to the work
One year’s split is a snapshot, not a verdict. Splits swing hard with land deals, grants, and campaign timing.
$1,073,648 programs, $468,501 management, $386,684 fundraising. Form 990, FY2024.
The backers
Backed on the record by Pew Charitable Trusts, Resources Legacy Fund, Wilderness Society and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, latest filing FY25.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at the Wyoming Outdoor Council? Claim this page.
The filings
14 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $699,752 |
| 2012 | $1,278,037 |
| 2013 | $1,036,860 |
| 2014 | $1,002,676 |
| 2015 | $666,393 |
| 2016 | $1,249,716 |
| 2017 | $1,634,748 |
| 2018 | $887,785 |
| 2019 | $2,312,471 |
| 2020 | $1,727,398 |
| 2021 | $2,049,852 |
| 2022 | $2,516,583 |
| 2023 | $2,369,043 |
| 2024 | $2,747,046 |
From $700K in 2011 to $2.7M in FY24, with no missed filing in 14 years.
In court
Fights alongside Natural Resources Defense Council (2 shared cases), Sierra Club (2 shared cases), The Wilderness Society (2 shared cases), Center for Biological Diversity (1 shared case) and Defenders of Wildlife (1 shared case) and 7 more. Same case, same side, on the federal docket. Their dockets on CourtListener.
The record
On the record with the agencies
6 comments on federal decisions since 2023, each filed under the group’s own name on regulations.gov, none yet on a decision we track. Read them on regulations.gov.
Year by year
The record, in order
- 1967Wyoming Outdoor Council is formed.the return, formation year
- 2008Wyoming v. United States Department of Agriculture: intervenor, closed.the docket
- 2018State of California v. Zinke: plaintiff, closed.the docket
- 2022First appears in Resources Legacy Fund’s grants.the funder’s return
- 2023First appears in Pew Charitable Trusts’ grants.the funder’s return
- 2024First appears in the grants of Wilderness Society and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.the funders’ returns
- 20253 comments, all to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- 20263 comments, all to the Bureau of Land Management, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
Green, a funder’s return. Hollow, a filing. Every row is a record we hold: 2 federal cases with the group on the docket, 6 comments filed under its own name, 4 funders whose returns name it. Nothing here is written from memory.
Their ground
The places they defend
Leading opposition to BLM’s 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop.
Who’s defending it In the fight · On watchAdobe Town WSAIts Rock Springs RMP campaign lists Adobe Town among the landscapes whose management the contested plan will set for the next two decades.
Who’s defending itMost urgent first: open comment windows, then live federal cases, then the threat level. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
The Wyoming congressional delegation averages 3 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
Give on their site ↗SpeakComment and callOpen comment windows and call scripts for fights like these, ready to send.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
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The mission is theirs. The backing is yours.