Wyoming

Credit: Alex Diekmann

Looking across the American landscape, the Northern Rockies, which include Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, anchor our wild lands. Virtually all the native plant and animal species that existed at the time of the Lewis & Clark Expedition are still here, edged by working lands—farms, ranches and forests that represent the traditional life of the American West.

Vast expanses of public lands are open to people to experience unspoiled back country rich with rare wildlife, including grizzly bear, gray wolf, woodland caribou, wolverine, and salmon and trout. Low-elevation private land threads through this wilderness—mostly working farms and ranches. For generations, people have worked these lands, fished the streams, and raised their families to cherish their beautiful surroundings and rural way of life. The Trust for Public Land's goal in Wyoming is to advance landscape-scale conservation while sustaining healthy communities and protecting the land where we love to live, work and play—like the 58,000 acres of former oil and gas leases in the Hoback Basin and the 11,200-acre Devil's Canyon Ranch.