Wyoming Officials to Continue to Tromp on the Public Trust!!
Come on People…. WGF officials and Wyoming Dept of Agriculture have already proven they can not be trusted by selling or allowing BANNED Poisons to be sold to USDA FWS!! When will people pull their heads out of their $##%#@# and say enough is enough…….. WGF’S commissioner, is a Rancher named Les Henderson!! We need to get Ranchers out of holding a Conservation Based office!! Wyomings new Director for Wyoming Dept of Agriculture is Doug Miyamoto who came from Wyoming Livestock Board….. I seriously Doubt this guy will do as he has promised as well given his Background… Wyoming Ranchers have already had their hands in his front Pockets…. Wyoming Wildlife is F%$#$%^!!! Call Doug and ask him his intentions…. Doug Miyamoto. Wyoming Department of Agriculture. Phone (
WGF officials frequently go beyond ignoring other agencies such as the National Park Service to dismissing the public at large. States have a trust responsibility to manage public resources, including wildlife, for the benefit of the public who own them. Yet, WGF officials have consistently demonstrated total disregard for public sentiment if it does not align with their pro-industry, pro-hunting ideology.
Take what happened with Wyoming’s 2001 draft grizzly bear plan, developed with the advice of a multi-interest stakeholders group. The plan would have allowed grizzly bears to occupy habitat outside the Primary Conservation Area, including lands that grizzlies were beginning to recolonize, such as the Wind River mountains.
Over 95% of those who submitted comments on the draft grizzly bear plan requested more protections for grizzlies and bears in more places (link). In a telephone survey of public opinion conducted by WGF, the majority of respondents said that grizzly bears should be allowed to occupy more extensive areas in Greater Yellowstone (link).
In spite of all this, a single WGF commissioner, rancher Les Henderson, forced WGF staff behind closed doors to gut the plan (link). Most of the Wind River and all the Wyoming Range were excised from the draft plan as “unacceptable bear habitat” because of the presence of domestic sheep (link). WGF presented the revised plan in a meeting where the public was prohibited from speaking (link). Again, the thugs of WGF forced the views of a minority of industry interests on the majority of the public who supported a bigger vision for grizzly bear recovery.