Mission

Fly Wyoming’s vast and storied Red Desert with conservationists and members of the media to advocate and spread public awareness on the efforts to protect the Red Desert.

From the air, the landscape unfolded - layered with vibrant red rock formations, endless rolling sagebrush hills, and ancient volcanic remnants. We soared above Honeycomb Buttes’ striated sandstone ridges, the stark volcanic presence of Black Tusk, and the sweeping expanse of the Killpecker Dunes - the largest living dune system in North America. We traced the curves of the Sweetwater River and flew over Iron Mountain Mine and the remarkable Red Canyon. Steamboat Mountain stood sentinel in the distance, a symbol of this landscape’s wild resilience.

But beyond the breathtaking views lies a deeper story of land and people. The Red Desert is a remote landscape and a living cultural corridor, home to the Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapaho, and other Indigenous Nations whose ancestors have walked and stewarded this land for millennia. The scattered teepee rings, petroglyphs, and ancient trails here are more than artifacts - they are active threads in a still-living narrative of resilience, reverence, and relationship with the land.

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