Conservation groups are challenging the Trump administration’s plans to allow 35-hundred new gas wells in southwestern Wyoming. Oil and gas companies welcomed the move to allow production on the Normally Pressured Lance natural gas development project, which is a 140-thousand-acre area south of Pinedale. But critics warn the expansion would block pronghorn access to critical winter ranges. Linda Baker with the Upper Green River Alliance says it’s no surprise that when habitat is degraded and fragmented, wildlife populations suffer.
Governor Mark Gordon did not include the ancient Path of the Pronghorn in his recent executive order on migration, in part to avoid disrupting natural gas development already under construction. The first federally designated migration corridor for pronghorn connects Grand Teton National Park and winter range in the Upper Green River Basin. A petition recently filed by a coalition of conservation groups in U-S District Court argues the B-L-M approved oil and gas development in the N-P-L without properly analyzing the potential harm to pronghorn and greater sage grouse from drill site infrastructure.
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