Sometimes, the biggest challenge to hunting is just getting there.
Western Wyoming near the Idaho border is such a place.
Getting access to 16,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service land about 25 miles north of Cokeville in the Green River Region was extremely difficult so the Wyoming Game and Fish Department reached out to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for help.
RMEF and its partners at onX each supplied $25,000 in funding for what’s known as the Hobble Creek Access Project – two permanent road access agreements with two different landowners that allow hunters and anglers to cross their private land to reach the public land beyond.
Wyoming officials ranked this as the second-most important access project in the region, only behind RMEF’s 2021 Raymond Mountain Project a mere 30 miles away that improved public access to more than 30,000 acres in the Sublette Mountain Range.
Now, now only did this the new road easement open the door for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities but it also allows wildlife managers to better use hunting as a means to manage elk in an area where populations are over objective.
ONE SQUARE MILE A DAY.
OVER 10 MILLION ACRES BY 2030.
At RMEF, we’re not just conserving what’s here today, we’re creating what’s possible for tomorrow. That means more access, healthier habitats and a stronger future for all big game.
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