Hobble Creek Access Project Opens 16,000 Acres of Wyoming Elk Country

This is the kind of access work that actually changes a hunting season.

The Hobble Creek Access Project in western Wyoming opened the door to about 16,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service ground north of Cokeville, near the Idaho line. Before this deal, getting into that public land was extremely difficult because of private-land barriers.

Wyoming Game and Fish asked for help, and RMEF and onX each put $25,000 toward two permanent road access agreements with two private landowners. Those easements let hunters and anglers cross private land legally to reach the public land beyond.

That matters for more than recreation. Wildlife managers also need hunters on the landscape where elk are over objective. If elk numbers need to be managed, then people have to be able to get to the country where those elk live. Locked-up public land does not help the herd, the habitat, or the hunter.

Access is conservation. A tag does not mean much if the road is blocked and the public ground might as well be on the moon. This is a clean win for elk hunters, anglers, public-land users, and the biologists trying to keep herds in line with the country that feeds them.