Correct HPD, you cannot camp or have an open fire on Wyoming (school trust) State land. 3 guesses as to who asked that provision in the laws regarding public use....Ranchers/Outfitters. They'd carry that law over to any federal land they would get title to. That's for sure and for certain.
Based on what? your opinion.
Wyoming is not trying to stop all dispersed camping in the state. There are reasons dispersed camping is not allowed on school trust land but camping is allowed on other state land like state parks. At least they allow hunting on state school trust land. Some states do not.
Wyoming is not against tourism. They are no against outdoor recreations they arenot against hunters. They want people to come to Wyoming on vacation.
There is not way they would stop all camping and sell the land off like you guys keep claiming is fact. Show us some examples of Wyoming selling off large pieces of state owned recreational land. If you can provide some examples you will have a great point. But the only piece of state land I know about them selling was deemed useless from a recreational standpoint and it was sold so the money could be used to buy property that offered more recreational opportunities.
I'm going to give you an example of the feds giving land to the state and the state doing a great job of managing it for recreational purposes. Fort Robinson State Park. And yes camping is allowed. It even has some wilderness next to it. And the state has paid for walk in hunting on some surrounding land and purchased some adjacent land for a WMA. Clearly nothing like what you describe happening.
History[edit]
In August 1873, the Red Cloud Agency was moved from the North Platte River to the White River, near what is now Crawford, Nebraska, in the northwest corner of the state. The following March, the U. S. Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the agency site. Home to some 13,000 Lakotas, some of them hostile, the Agency was a source of tension on the Great Plains.
The camp was named Camp Robinson in honor of Lt. Levi H. Robinson, who had been killed by Indians while on a wood detail in February. In May, the camp was moved 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the agency to its present location; the camp was renamed Fort Robinson in January 1878. Fort Robinson played a major role in the Sioux Wars from 1876 to 1890. The Battle of Warbonnet Creek took place nearby in July 1876. Crazy Horse surrendered here with his band on May 6, 1877. On September 5 that year, he was fatally wounded while resisting imprisonment.[4] A historic plaque marks the site of his death.
In January 1879, Chief Morning Star (also known as Dull Knife) led the Northern Cheyenne in an outbreak from the agency. Because the Cheyenne had refused to return to Indian Territory, where they believed conditions were too adverse for them to survive, the army had been holding them without adequate food, water or heat during the severe winter to try to force them into submission. Soldiers hunted down the escapees and killed most over the next several weeks. The event marked the end of the Sioux and Cheyenne Wars in Nebraska.
Fort Robinson in 2003
In 1885, the 9th Cavalry Regiment, nicknamed the Buffalo Soldiers, was stationed at Fort Robinson. This was an all-black unit. During the next several years, the fort was enlarged and military training was a major activity. From 1889-1890, Second Lieutenant Charles Young served here and later was reassigned to the regiment. A black pioneer officer who had graduated from West Point, he was the highest-ranking black in the US Army throughout his career and achieved the rank of colonel.[5] From 1887-1898, the fort served as regimental headquarters. The post gymnasium and theatre, built in 1904, provided entertainment for the soldiers.[1]
In 1919 at the end of World War I, Fort Robinson became the world's largest quartermaster remount depot. It was used as a breeding and training center for horses and mules for the military. In addition, stallions owned by the military were used to breed with local stock to improve it. During World War II, the fort was the site of a K-9 corps training center. Later it was used to hold a German prisoner-of-war camp.
The army decided to abandon Fort Robinson in 1947; in the following year, it transferred the property to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), for its Beef Cattle Research Station. In the mid-1950s, efforts were made to preserve the fort as a historic site, prompted by the demolition of buildings. In 1955, the Nebraska State Historical Society began to acquire property on the fort; in 1956, they opened a museum on the site. The fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. The USDA closed its operation in 1971,
transferring the property to the state of Nebraska.[1][3][6][7]
The fort is part of the Fort Robinson and Red Cloud Agency historic district, which includes Fort Robinson and the site of the second Red Cloud Agency (about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the east). The district also includes the Camp Camby site and the 1886 Percy Homestead.
The fort is managed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, with some individual buildings operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska. A quartermaster's stores building is now used as a playhouse by Chadron State College.[1]
