For one week in June, hundreds of Wyomingites across the political spectrum galvanized under the leadership of a purple-haired, outspoken, female Ph.D. from Laramie.

Whether it was fate or a broken-clock moment that made Rep. Karlee Provenza, D-Laramie, the face of the Wyoming resistance to a proposed public lands selloff mandate doesn’t matter — at least to her.

“I would die for my public lands. I love them,” Provenza told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday. “I fight for what I believe in.”

Ultimately Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s proposed sell-off mandate was scrapped — after attracting backlash across the American West.

Provenza for her part wrote an op-ed , gave interviews, organized a rally and sent the protest letters of 500 people to Congressional delegates.

Her fight happ

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