Mission

Flying above the Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area with Friends of Dubois Badlands and National Bighorn Sheep Center, the area’s unique geology comes to life.

The towering buttes and stratified, multi-colored rock is home to fragile and unique wildlife habitat, recreational opportunity, and incredible scenery. Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) are federally designated lands that possess Wilderness characteristics and are undergoing study for potential inclusion into the Wilderness Preservation System. The Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area is 4,520 acres and about 7 square miles.

Our flight partners are working to protect the Badlands. Many WSAs, including iconic landscapes like the Dubois Badlands, Sweetwater Canyon, Copper Mountain, and Honeycomb WSAs are threatened by proposed legislation, illegal off-road activities, and trash/waste dumping.

Mitigating these concerns and continued safeguarding of our protected public lands from oil and gas development, mining, new roads, and inadequate management of resources and values is paramount. Many Tribes carry strong connections to this landscape and the WPLI ignores Tribal consultation and sovereignty.

EcoFlight and our partner are dedicated to protecting Wyoming’s culturally important landscapes, amazing badlands, towering buttes, rivers, and canyons into perpetuity.

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