"If oil and gas development continues at the pace it has recently in Sublette County, our home will look significantly different in 5 to 10 years. Some local kid, who decides to move home after college, is going to take a look around at all the destruction and ask, 'Who let this
happen?'" - Pinedale Roundup Editorial (October 2, 2003)
Welcome!
The Upper Green River Valley Coalition is a group of citizens, sportsmen, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to responsible, sustainable management of the wildlife, waters and air quality of Wyoming's Upper Green. This vital portion of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is under intense pressure from the oil and gas industry, which reaps more than $4 billion a year in natural gas. Our mission is to ensure energy extraction is balanced with the valley’s supreme natural values.
The Pinedale BLM is currently revising its Resource Management Plan, a document that will guide oil and gas development in the Upper Green for the next 10 to 15 years. Learn about our position on the Pinedale RMP, a road map for "doing it right." Please join us by urging the BLM to balance oil and gas with the needs of wildlife and other natural values as the agency revises its Pinedale Resource Management Plan. Your voice is crucial!
Nestled between the high peaks of western Wyoming's Wind River, Gros Ventre and Wyoming Ranges, our valley is home to:
More than 100,000 big game animals
Continental America's longest big game migration
route and a crucial link to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Largest publicly-owned big game winter range
in the GYE
Largest mule deer herd in U.S.
One of the west's last best sage grouse habitats and a world-class fishery
One of the largest natural gas reserves in the U.S.
Enduring
Natural Treasure or Industrial Sacrifice Zone ?
Energy companies and government officials
predict that the Green River Valley could soon become the major natural gas-producing region of the United States. Already, it accounts for 2.5 percent of the nation’s consumption and more than half of Wyoming’s total production.
At risk are vast open spaces with free-roaming wildlife herds,
critical big game migration corridors, clean air and water, outstanding
recreational values and local communities.
